1996 Indian general election in Haryana
Haryana state elections
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The 1996 Indian general election in Haryana was held for 10 Lok Sabha seats in the state.[1]
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Parties and alliances
| Party/Alliance Name | Flag | Electoral symbol | Leader | Seats contested | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NDA | Bharatiya Janata Party |  |
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Ramesh Joshi | 6 | |||
| Haryana Vikas Party | Bansi Lal | 4 | ||||||
| Indian National Congress |  |
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Kumari Selja | 10 | ||||
| Samata Party |  |
George Fernandes | 10 | |||||
| All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) | N. D. Tiwari | 8 | ||||||
List of Candidates
| Constituency | NDA | INC | SAP | AIIC(T) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Name | Party | Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | Candidate | ||||
| 1 | Ambala (SC) | BJP | Suraj Bhan | INC | Sher Singh Kadyan | SAP | Balwant Singh | AIIC(T) | S. C. Dhosiwal | ||||
| 2 | Kurukshetra | HVP | Om Parkash Jindal | INC | Tara Singh | SAP | Kalasho Devi | AIIC(T) | Jagdeep Singh Cheema | ||||
| 3 | Karnal | BJP | Ishwar Dayal Swami | INC | Chiranji Lal Sharma | SAP | Shyam Singh Rana | AIIC(T) | Shamsher Singh Gogi | ||||
| 4 | Sonepat | HVP | Abhey Ram Dahiya | INC | Dharam Pal Singh Malik | SAP | Rijak Ram | AIIC(T) | Bimla Mor | ||||
| 5 | Rohtak | BJP | Pardeep Kumar | INC | Bhupender | SAP | Devi Lal | Did not contest | |||||
| 6 | Faridabad | BJP | Ram Chander | INC | Avtar Singh Bhadana | SAP | Shantvir Vashist | AIIC(T) | Rati Ram s/o Ammi | ||||
| 7 | Mahendragarh | BJP | Ram Singh | INC | Rao Birender Singh | SAP | Kanwar Singh Kalwari | AIIC(T) | Raj Dahiya | ||||
| 8 | Bhiwani | HVP | Surender Singh | INC | Jangbir Singh | SAP | Gopi Ram Vashistha | AIIC(T) | Bhola Ram | ||||
| 9 | Hisar | HVP | Jai Parkash | INC | Surjeet Singh | SAP | Gauri Shanker | AIIC(T) | Vijay Kumar | ||||
| 10 | Sirsa (SC) | BJP | Hans Raj Hans | INC | Selja Kumari | SAP | Sushil Kumar | Did not contest | |||||
Results
Results by Party/Alliance
| Alliance/ Party | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
| NDA | BJP | 15,02,723 | 19.74 |  9.57 |
6 | 4 | 4 | ||
| HVP | 11,56,322 | 15.19 | 9.84 |
4 | 3 | 2 | |||
| Total | 26,59,045 | 34.93 |  |
10 | 7 | | |||
| INC | 17,23,087 | 22.64 |  14.58 |
10 | 2 | 7 | |||
| SAP | 14,47,340 | 19.01 | |
10 | 0 | | |||
| BSP | 5,01,958 | 6.59 | 4.80 |
6 | 0 | | |||
| AIIC(T) | 1,71,005 | 2.25 | |
8 | 0 | | |||
| JD | 1,16,845 | 1.54 | 10.95 |
8 | 0 | | |||
| SP | 86,172 | 1.13 | |
3 | 0 | | |||
| Others | 1,26,069 | 1.64 | |
29 | 0 | | |||
| IND | 7,80,122 | 10.25 | 4.77 |
210 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Total | 76,11,643 | 100% | - | 294 | 10 | - | |||
List of Elected MPs
| Constituency | Winner | Runner-up | Margin | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
| 1 | Ambala (SC) | Suraj Bhan | BJP | 253,555 | 31.77 | Sher Singh | INC | 166,408 | 20.85 | 87,147 | 10.92 | ||
| 2 | Kurukshetra | Om Parkash Jindal | HVP | 292,172 | 36.45 | Kalasho Devi | SAP | 240,395 | 29.99 | 51,777 | 6.46 | ||
| 3 | Karnal | Ishwar Dayal Swami | BJP | 338,013 | 42.20 | Chiranji Lal Sharma | INC | 146,148 | 18.25 | 191,865 | 23.95 | ||
| 4 | Sonepat | Arvind Kumar | IND | 231,552 | 33.07 | Rijaq Ram | SAP | 182,012 | 26.00 | 49,540 | 7.07 | ||
| 5 | Rohtak | Bhupender | INC | 198,154 | 31.71 | Devi Lal | SAP | 195,490 | 31.28 | 2,664 | 0.43 | ||
| 6 | Faridabad | Ram Chander | BJP | 292,294 | 35.76 | Avtar Singh Bhadana | INC | 230,778 | 28.23 | 61,516 | 7.53 | ||
| 7 | Mahendragarh | Ram Singh | BJP | 265,034 | 33.45 | Rao Birender Singh | INC | 216,999 | 27.39 | 48,035 | 6.06 | ||
| 8 | Bhiwani | Surender Singh | HVP | 406,454 | 55.66 | Jangbir Singh | INC | 181,271 | 24.82 | 225,183 | 30.84 | ||
| 9 | Hissar | Jai Parkash | HVP | 306,402 | 42.32 | Gauri Shanker | SAP | 131,750 | 18.20 | 174,652 | 24.12 | ||
| 10 | Sirsa (SC) | Selja | INC | 275,459 | 33.50 | Sushil Kumar | SAP | 260,312 | 31.66 | 15,147 | 1.84 | ||