Abhay Singh Chautala, a senior leader of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), has held the Ellenabad Assembly constituency in Haryana since 2010. In the 2024 Haryana Assembly elections, held on October 5, Ellenabad recorded a 67% voter turnout, slightly higher than the state’s overall turnout of 65.65%.

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Chautala, son of former Chief Minister OP Chautala, is seeking re-election from Ellenabad, facing Congress’ Bharat Singh Beniwal and BJP’s Amir Chand Talwara, both of whom have previously contested unsuccessfully from this key Sirsa district seat.

In recent elections, Chautala has maintained a strong hold on the constituency, benefiting from a three-way contest. In the 2021 by-poll, he secured 65,992 votes, defeating BJP’s Gobind Kanda (59,253 votes) and Congress’ Pawan Beniwal, who garnered only 20,904 votes. The by-poll was triggered by Chautala’s resignation in protest against the now-repealed farm laws.

In the 2019 Assembly elections, Chautala defeated BJP’s Pawan Beniwal by a margin of 11,922 votes. At that time, out of 1,81,021 eligible voters in the segment, 1,50,684 participated in the election.

The Julana Assembly constituency in Haryana is going to be the watched election battle as the counting for the 2024 Assembly polls in Haryana is underway. With two widely popular personalities — wrestler Vinesh Phogat from Congress and Captain Yogesh Bairagi from BJP — contesting against each other, the results for the Julana Assembly seat is much awaited.

As the early trends come in, Phogat is leading from the Julana Assembly constituency.

Wrestler-turned-politician Vinesh Phogat remained the key player in Julana after she was nominated by Congress soon after she joined the party. Phogat joined the Indian National Congress and entered the world of politics after she retired from wrestling following the Paris Olympics 2024.

Notably, Phogat participated in the wrestlers’ anti-sexual harassment protest against the former chief of the Wrestling Federation of India and ex-MP of BJP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.

In addition to Phogat, 11 other candidates have also contested from the Julana Assembly constituency. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yogesh Bairagi, who earlier served in the Army for nearly nine years and is a former commercial pilot, is being termed to be the key contender against Phogat.

Julana had over 1.85 lakh eligible voters, with 40 percent of them from the Jat community. Voting across all 90 seats in the Haryana Legislative Assembly was conducted in a single phase on October 5.

Iltija Mufti Election Result Live: Iltija Mufti, the daughter of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti, rose to prominence when her mother was detained after the abrogation of Article 370 in J&K. The 37-year-old, who is contesting polls from Bijbehara, pursued a degree in Political Science at a Delhi college. She later went to the UK for a Master’s in International Relations and worked as a Senior Administrative Officer at the Indian High Commission in London and the Australia India Institute. Iltija is in direct contest with National Conference veteran Bashir Veeri who previously lost two elections in a row from the seat.

Mehbooba Mufti had also made her electoral debut from Bijbehara in 1996 and the constituency is known as the turf of the Mufti family.

The Srigufwara-Bijbehara Assembly constituency is one of the 90 seats in Jammu and Kashmir that went to polls in Phase 1 of the three-phase elections on September 18. In the 2014 Assembly results, the seat was won by Abdul Rehman Bhat of the Jammu and Kashmir People’s Democratic Party (JKPDP), who defeated Bashir Ahmad Shah of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) by a margin of 2,868 votes. Srigufwara–Bijbehara is part of the Anantnag–Rajouri Lok Sabha.