Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar retained his Karnal seat with a comfortable margin of 45,188 votes over his nearest rival Tarlochan Singh of the Congress.

Khattar has bagged 79,722 votes, while Tarlochan Singh trailed at 34,601 votes, as per information available on the Election Commission website.

In the 2014 Haryana Assembly elections, Khattar won in this seat by defeating the IND candidate by a margin of 63,773 votes which was 45.42 percent of the total votes polled in the constituency. BJP had a vote share of 58.75 percent in 2014 in the seat.

Led by Khattar, the BJP had set a target of winning 75 seats in Haryana but failed to cross the halfway mark in the 90-member assembly.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which was predicted by most exit polls to retain power in Haryana with a brute majority, was locked in a close contest with the main opposition, the Congress party.

It won 40 seats while the Congress won 31 seats, while the less than 12-month-old Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), which broke away from the state's once major regional Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) owing to family disputes, won 10 seats.

The INLD won a lone seat against 19 in 2014 Assembly election. Eight independents have also won.

BJP's outgoing ministers Captain Abhimanyu, O.P. Dhankar, Ram Bilas Sharma, Kavita Jain, Krishan Lal Panwar, Manish Grover, and Krishan Kumar Bedi, all ended up with humiliating defeats.

But BJP candidate and Public Health and Engineering Minister Banwari Lal won the Bawal seat. Also Health Minister Anil Vij retained his seat from Ambala Cantonment.

Two sitting ministers, Rao Narbir Singh and Vipul Goel, were denied tickets and fresh faces were brought in.

Elections for the 90 seats in Haryana Assembly were held on October 21.

In the 2014 Assembly polls, the BJP improved its 2009 tally of four to 47 (33.2 percent vote share), followed by the INLD with 19 (24.11 percent) legislators and the Congress coming third with 15 (20.58 percent) seats against 40 in 2009 (35 percent).

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First Published:Oct 24, 2019 10:03 AM IST