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Haryana Assembly Elections 2024 Date: Haryana is gearing up for its Legislative Assembly Elections. The polling will take place on October 5 to elect 90 members of the Haryana Legislative Assembly.

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Also read | Foreign diplomats visited India’s Jammu and Kashmir to witness the second phase of voting Haryana Assembly Election Constituency wise list of candidates The list of candidates for each constituency is as follows: S No Constituency BJP Candidate Congress Candidate AAP Candidates JJP-ASP candidates INLD-BSP candidates 1 Ladwa Nayab Singh Saini Mewa Singh Joga Singh Vinod Sharma Sapna Barshami 2 Kalka Shakti Rani Sharma Pradeep Chaudhary OP Gujjar Balbir Saini 3 Panchkula Gian Chand Gupta Chander Mohan Prem Garg Sushil Garg Kshitij Chaudhary 4 Ambala Cantt Anil Vij Parimal Pari Raj Kaur Gill Avtar Kardhan S Onkar Singh 5 Ambala City Aseem Goel Nirmal Singh Ketan Sharma Parul Nagpal 6 Sadhaura (SC) Balwant Singh Renu Bala Rita Bamaniya Sohel (ASP) 7 Mulana (SC) Santosh Sarwan Pooja Chaudhary Gurtej Singh Ravinder Dheen Parkash Bharti 8 Jagadhri Kanwar Pal Gurjar Akram Khan Adarshpal Gujjar Ashok Kashyap (ASP) Darshan Lal Kheda 9 Yamunanagar Ghanshyam Dass Arora Raman Tyagi Lalit Tyagi Intzaar Ali Gurjar Dilbag Singh 10 Radaur Shyam Singh Rana Bishan Lal Saini Bheem Singh Rathi Rajkumar Bubka 11 Shahbad (SC) Subhash Kalsana Ram Karan Asha Pathania Ranjita Singh 12 Thanesar Subhash Sudha Ashok Arora Krishna Bajaj SuryaPratap Rathor 13 Pehowa Kamaljeet Singh Arjana Mandeep Singh Chatha Gehal Singh Sandhu Sukhvinder Kaur Baldev Singh Warraich 14 Guhla (SC) Kulwant Bazigar Devinder Hans Rakesh Khanpur Krishan Bajigar Poonam Sultaniya 15 Kalayat Kamlesh Dhanda Vikas Saharan Anurag Dhandha Pritam Mehra (ASP) Rampal Majra 16 Kaithal Leela Ram Gurjar Aditya Surjewala Satbir Goyat Sandeep Garhi 17 Nilokheri (SC) Bhagwan Dass Kabirpanthi Dharm Pal Gondar Amar Singh Karna Singh Bhukkal Balwan Balmiki 18 Indri Ram Kumar Kashyap Rakesh Kumar Kamboj Hawa Singh Kuldeep Mandan 19 Karnal Jammohan Anand Sumita Virk Sunil Bindal Jitendra Royal Surjeet Singh Pehalwan 20 Gharaunda Harvinder Kalyan Virender Singh Rathore Jaipal Sharma Rajpal Rod (ASP) Mannu Kashyap 21 Panipat Rural Mahipal Dhanda Sachin Kundu Sukhbir Malik Rahunath Kashyap 22 Panipat City Pramod Kumar Vij Virender Kumar Shah Ritu Arora Ravindra Minna 23 Israna (SC) Krishan Lal Panwar Balbir Singh Amit Kumar Sunil Saudapur Surajbhan Nara 24 Samalkha Manmohan Bhadana Dharam Singh Chhoker Bittu Pahalwan Rajesh Jattipur 25 Kharkhauda (SC) Pawan Kharkhauda Jaiveer Singh Manjeet Farmana Ramesh Khatak Pritam Khokhar 26 Sonipat Nikhil Madan Surender Panwar Devender Gautam Sardharm 27 Gohana Arvind Sharma Jagbir Singh Malik Shiv Kumar Rangeela Kuldeep Malik 28 Safidon Ram Kumar Gautam Subhash Gangoli Nisha Deshwal Sushil Bairagi 29 Jind Krishan Lal Middha Mahabir Gupta Wazir Singh Dhanda Engineer Dharampal Prajapat Narendernath Sharma 30 Uchana Kalan Devender Attri Brijendra Singh Pawan Fauji Dushyant Chautala Vinod Dhulgach Alewa 31 Tohana Devender Singh Babli Paramvir Singh Sukhwinder Singh Gill Hawa Singh Khobda Kunal Karan Singh 32 Fatehabad Duda Ram Bishnoi Balwan Singh Daulatpuria Kamal Bisla Subhash Gorachhiya Sunaina Chautala 33 Ratia (SC) Sunita Duggal Jarghnail Singh Mukhtiyar Singh Bazigar Ramesh Kumar Ramsawroop Rama 34 Kalanwali (SC) Rajinder Deshujodha Shishpal Singh Jasdev Nikka Gurjant Tigri Master Gurtej Singh Sukhchain 35 Rania Shishpal Kamboj Savita Mitra Kamboj Happy Rania Arjun Chautala 36 Adampur Bhavya Bishnoi Chander Prakash Adv. Bhupendra Beniwal Krishan Gangwa Randeep Singh Lohchab 37 Uklana (SC) Anoop Dhanak Naresh Selwal Narender Uklana Rohtash Kandul Balraj Sabarwal 38 Narnaund Capt Abhimanyu Jasbir Singh Ranbir Singh Lohan Yogesh Gautam Umed Lohan 39 Hansi Vinod Bhayana Rahul Makkar Rajender Sorkhi Shamsher Dhul (ASP) 40 Barwala Ranbir Gangwa Ram Niwas Ghorela Prof. Chhatar Pal Singh Anantram Sanjana Satrod 41 Hisar Kamal Gupta Ram Niwas Rara Sanjay Satrodi Ravi Ahuja Shyam Lal Garg 42 Nalwa Randhir Panihar Anil Mann Umesh Sharma Virender Chaudhary 43 Loharu JP Dalal Rajbir Singh Fartiya Geeta Sheoran Alka Arya Bhoop Singh Sheoran 44 Badhra Umed Patuwas Sombir Singh (Sheoran) Rakesh Chandwas Lt Col Yashwir Singh Sheoran (ASP) Vijay Panchgana 45 Dadri Sunil Sangwan Manisha Sangwan Dhanraj Kundu Rajdeep Phogat 46 Bhiwani Ghanshyam Saraf Comrade Omprakash (CPI-M) Indu Sharma Jugnu Mehra (ASP) Karamvir Yadav 47 Tosham Shruti Chaudhary Anirudh Chaudhary Daljeet Singh Rajesh Bhardwaj 48 Bawani Khera (SC) Kapurnan Valmiki Pradeep Narwal Dharmveer Kungar Guddi Langyan 49 Meham Deepak Hooda Balram Dangi Vikas Nehra 50 Garhi Sampla-Kiloi Manju Hooda Bhupinder Singh Hooda Pravin Guskhani Sushil Deshwal Krishan Kaushik Advocate 51 Bahadurgarh Dinesh Kaushik Rajinder Singh Joon Kuldeep Chikara Balwan Singh (ASP) Sheela Rathi 52 Badli Om Prakash Dhankar Kuldeep Vals Ranbir Guliya Krishna Silana 53 Jhajjar (SC) Kaptan Birdhana Geeta Bhukkal Mahender Dahiya Nasib Balmiki 54 Beri Sanjay Kablana Dr. Raghuvir Singh Kadian Sonu Ahlawat Sheria Sunilkuntla Dujana Sarpanch Pramod Rathi 55 Ateli Kumar Arti Singh Rao Anita Yadav Suneel Rao Aayushi Abhimanyu Rao 56 Nangal Chaudhry Abhay Singh Yadav Manju Choudhary Dr Gopichand Engineer Omprakash 57 Kosli Anil Dahina Jagdish Yadav CA Himmat Yadav Lavinder Singh Yadav 58 Rewari Lakshman Singh Yadav Chiranjeev Rao Satish Yadav Moki Yadav 59 Badshahpur Rao Narbir Singh Vardhan Yadav Bir Singh Sarpanch Surender Yadav (ASP) 60 Gurgaon Mukesh Sharma Mohit Grover Nishant Anand Ashok Jangada Gaurav Bhati 61 Sohna Tejpal Tanwar Rohtash Khatana Dharamender Khatana Vinesh Gurjar (ASP) 62 Palwal Gaurav Gautam Karan Dalal Dharmender Hindustani Harit Bainsla (ASP) 63 Prithla Tek Chand Sharma Raghubir Tewatia Kaushal Sharma 64 Ballabgarh Mool Chand Sharma Parag Sharma Ravinder Faujdar 65 Faridabad Vipul Goel Lakhan Kumar Singhla Pravesh Mehta Nisha Balmiki Narenderpal Singh 66 Tigaon Rajesh Nagar Rohit Naar Abash Chandela Tika Ram Bharadwaj 67 Dabwali Sardar Baldev Singh Amit Sihag Kuldeep Gadrana Digvijay Singh Aditya Chautala 68 Julana Capt Yogesh Bairagi Vinesh Phogat Kavita Dalal Amarjeet Dhanda Surender Lathar 69 Bawal (SC) Krishna Kumar ML Ranga Jawahar Lal Rameshwar Dyal Sampat Ram Dahanwal 70 Hodal Harinder Singh Ramrattan Udai Bhan ML Gautam Satvir Tanwar Sunil Kumar Balmiki 71 Hathin Manoj Rawat Mohd Israil Col. Rajendra Rawat Ravindra Sehrawat Tayyab Hussain 72 Naraingarh Pawan Saini Shalley Chaudhary Gurpal Singh Harbilas Singh 73 Assandh Yogendra Rana Shamsher Singh Gogi Amandeep Jundla Maya Ram Rod Gopal Singh Rana 74 Baroda Pradeep Sangwan Induraj Singh Narwal Sandeep Malik Deepak Malik 75 Rohtak Manish Grover Bharat Bhushan Batra Bijender Hooda Jitendra Balhara Dilawar Mehra 76 Mahendragarh Ram Bilas Sharma Rao Dan Singh Manish Yadav Shashi Kumar (ASP) Surender Sharma 77 Nuh Sanjay Singh Aftab Ahmed Rabia Kidwai Tahir Hussain 78 Ferozepur Jhirka Naseem Ahmed Mamman Khan Wasin Jaffar Jan Mohd 79 Punahana Aizaz Khan Mohd. Ilyas Nayab Thekedar Bisru Daya Bhadana 80 Hodal (SC) Harinder Singh Ramrattan Udai Bhan ML Gautam 81 Faridabad (NIT) Satish Fagna Neeraj Sharma Ravi Dagar Hazi Karamat Ali Nagender Bhadana 82 Ganaur Devender Kaushik Kuldeep Sharma Saroj Bala Rathi Anil Tyagi 83 Pundri Satpal Jamba Sultan Singh Jadola Narendra Sharma Sajjan Dhul (Independent) 84 Narnaul Om Prakash Yadav Rao Narinder Singh Ravinder Matru Suresh Saini Nar Singh Dayma 85 Rai Krishna Gahlawat Jai Bhagwan Antil Rajesh Saroha Pramod Dahiya 86 Kalanaur Renu Dabla Shakuntla Khatak Naresh Bagri Mahender Sudana 87 Sonipat Nikhil Madan Surender Panwar Devender Gautam 88 Sirsa Gopal Kanda (HLP)- BJP withdraws candidate Gokul Setia Sham Mehta Pawan Sherpura (ASP) 89 Badkhal Dhanesh Adlakha Vijay Pratap OP Verma Parwinder Singh 90 Ellenabad Amir Chand Mehta Bharat Singh Beniwal Manish Arora Anjali Ladha Abhay Singh Chautala Also read | J&K Elections Phase 2: 'Congress wants to reinstate Article 370', says PM Modi Haryana Assembly Election 2024 Schedule, Dates and Result Dates The schedule for the Haryana Assembly Election is as follows: Poll Events Date Date of Issue of Gazette Notification 05.09.2024 (Thursday) Last Date of making nominations 12.09.2024 (Thursday) Date for Scrutiny of Nominations 13.09.2024 (Friday) Last date for the withdrawal of Candidates 16.09.2024 (Monday) Date of Poll 05.10.2024 (Tuesday) Date of Counting 08.10.2024 (Friday) (With inputs from agencies)

Haryana Assembly Election 2024 Date: Check phase-wise, constituency-wise voting schedule, result date: Details

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Austria's far-right topped Sunday's national elections, marking a historic victory by beating the ruling conservatives in the Alpine EU nation.

While the Freedom Party (FPOe) has been in government several times, this is the first time it has won a national vote.

But even with the victory, it is not certain it will be able to form a government.

In line with far-right parties elsewhere in Europe, the FPOe has seen its popularity surge, fed by voter anger over migration, inflation and Covid restrictions.

The FPOe stood at 29.1 per cent of votes, against 26.3 per cent for the conservative People's Party (OeVP), according to projections based on more than 60 per cent of the votes counted.

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FPOe leader Herbert Kickl, who took over the scandal-tainted party in 2021 and led its recovery, said he was ready to form the government with "each and every one" of the parties in parliament.&nbsp;

"It can't be any more clear than today" that the country must "reconnect with the population's needs," Kickl said on national television after the results were announced.

"Our hand is outstretched in all directions," he said.

<h2>- 'Exciting time' -</h2>

At the FPOe headquarters, the atmosphere was festive, as supporters wearing traditional Austrian dresses downed glasses of beer.

"It's a real success... It will be a very, very exciting time" with the FPOe trying to form the government, said Erik Berglund, 35, a waiter. He hailed sharp-tongued Kickl as the "most competent leader".

Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who managed to close the gap to the FPOe in recent weeks in opinion polls, said at his party headquarters that he could see the disappointment of party members.

"It was a race to catch-up, and unfortunately we didn't manage it," Nehammer said, vowing to "continue to fight for the people's interests".

The OeVP's support has plunged from more than 37 per cent in the last national election in 2019. The Greens with whom they governed in an unprecedented coalition were also punished, falling to 8.3 percent from almost 14 percent in 2019.

More than 6.3 million of Austria's nine million inhabitants were eligible to vote.

Nehammer reiterated his refusal to work with Kickl, who has called himself the future "Volkskanzler", the people's chancellor, as Adolf Hitler was termed in the 1930s.

Kickl regularly attacks EU sanctions against Russia and espouses the far-right concept of "remigration": expelling people of non-European ethnic backgrounds deemed to have failed to integrate.

<h2>- 'Earthquake' &nbsp;-</h2>

The FPOe had been widely predicted to narrowly top the vote, but Sunday's results for the party were even better than expected.

"This is certainly an earthquake and sends a shockwave through all the other parties," political analyst Thomas Hofer told AFP.

Even though the FPOe has come first however, analysts predict Nehammer is in a good position to remain chancellor if he forms a coalition with the Social Democrats (SPOe) and another party, probably the liberal NEOs.

The SPOe reached 21 per cent, according to the projections, while the NEOS have nine&nbsp;per cent.

It would be the first time a three-party coalition governs Austria, but analysts say such a coalition will have a hard time given the right-wing shift in the country.

A coalition between the far right and the conservatives still remains a possibility says analysts, given their common platform against immigration and on other issues.

Long a political force in Austria, the FPOe's first government with the conservatives in 2000 set off widespread protests and sanctions from Brussels.

"The FPOe mainly stirs up fears and never has anything constructive to contribute," researcher Theres Friesacher, 29, told AFP after voting in Vienna, citing corruption scandals that have frequently engulfed the party.

Both past OeVP-FPOe governments were short-lived.

The last one, headed by charismatic then-OeVP leader Sebastian Kurz, collapsed over a spectacular FPOe corruption scandal in 2019, after just a year and a half in power.

Disclaimer: This story has been published from a news agency feed with minimal edits to adhere to WION's style guide. The headline may have been changed to better reflect the content of the story or to make it more suitable for WION&nbsp;audience.

Austria's far-right topped Sunday's national elections, marking a historic victory by beating the ruling conservatives in the Alpine EU nation. While the Freedom Party (FPOe) has been in government several times, this is the first time it has won a national vote.

Austria's far-right topped Sunday's national elections, marking a historic victory by beating the ruling conservatives in the Alpine EU nation. While the Freedom Party (FPOe) has been in government several times, this is the first time it has won a national vote. But even with the victory, it is not certain it will be able to form a government. In line with far-right parties elsewhere in Europe, the FPOe has seen its popularity surge, fed by voter anger over migration, inflation and Covid restrictions. The FPOe stood at 29.1 per cent of votes, against 26.3 per cent for the conservative People's Party (OeVP), according to projections based on more than 60 per cent of the votes counted. Watch | Austria Elections 2024: Polling Underway In Austrian General Election × FPOe leader Herbert Kickl, who took over the scandal-tainted party in 2021 and led its recovery, said he was ready to form the government with "each and every one" of the parties in parliament. "It can't be any more clear than today" that the country must "reconnect with the population's needs," Kickl said on national television after the results were announced. "Our hand is outstretched in all directions," he said. - 'Exciting time' - At the FPOe headquarters, the atmosphere was festive, as supporters wearing traditional Austrian dresses downed glasses of beer. "It's a real success... It will be a very, very exciting time" with the FPOe trying to form the government, said Erik Berglund, 35, a waiter. He hailed sharp-tongued Kickl as the "most competent leader". Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who managed to close the gap to the FPOe in recent weeks in opinion polls, said at his party headquarters that he could see the disappointment of party members. "It was a race to catch-up, and unfortunately we didn't manage it," Nehammer said, vowing to "continue to fight for the people's interests". The OeVP's support has plunged from more than 37 per cent in the last national election in 2019. The Greens with whom they governed in an unprecedented coalition were also punished, falling to 8.3 percent from almost 14 percent in 2019. More than 6.3 million of Austria's nine million inhabitants were eligible to vote. Nehammer reiterated his refusal to work with Kickl, who has called himself the future "Volkskanzler", the people's chancellor, as Adolf Hitler was termed in the 1930s. Kickl regularly attacks EU sanctions against Russia and espouses the far-right concept of "remigration": expelling people of non-European ethnic backgrounds deemed to have failed to integrate. - 'Earthquake' - The FPOe had been widely predicted to narrowly top the vote, but Sunday's results for the party were even better than expected. "This is certainly an earthquake and sends a shockwave through all the other parties," political analyst Thomas Hofer told AFP. Even though the FPOe has come first however, analysts predict Nehammer is in a good position to remain chancellor if he forms a coalition with the Social Democrats (SPOe) and another party, probably the liberal NEOs. The SPOe reached 21 per cent, according to the projections, while the NEOS have nine per cent. It would be the first time a three-party coalition governs Austria, but analysts say such a coalition will have a hard time given the right-wing shift in the country. A coalition between the far right and the conservatives still remains a possibility says analysts, given their common platform against immigration and on other issues. Long a political force in Austria, the FPOe's first government with the conservatives in 2000 set off widespread protests and sanctions from Brussels. "The FPOe mainly stirs up fears and never has anything constructive to contribute," researcher Theres Friesacher, 29, told AFP after voting in Vienna, citing corruption scandals that have frequently engulfed the party. Both past OeVP-FPOe governments were short-lived. The last one, headed by charismatic then-OeVP leader Sebastian Kurz, collapsed over a spectacular FPOe corruption scandal in 2019, after just a year and a half in power. Disclaimer: This story has been published from a news agency feed with minimal edits to adhere to WION's style guide. The headline may have been changed to better reflect the content of the story or to make it more suitable for WION audience.

Austria's far-right Freedom Party projected to win general election

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