Kurukshetra Lok Sabha constituency

Kurukshetra
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Kurukshetra ; HR-2
Lok Sabha constituency
	Interactive Map Outlining Kurukshetra Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Haryana
Assembly constituencies	Radaur ; Ladwa ; Shahbad ; Thanesar ; Pehowa ; Guhla ; Kalayat ; Kaithal ; Pundri
Established	1977
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
	18th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Naveen Jindal
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2024

Last updated July 11, 2024

Kurukshetra is one of the 10 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Haryana state in India.^[1] This constituency covers the entire Kurukshetra and Kaithal districts and part of Yamunanagar district.

Voter composition

Caste wise voter composition
Caste	Total voter	Percentage(%)
SC	396,000	22
Jat	210,000	12.7
Saini(Hindu+Sikh)	183,600	10.2
Baniya	108,000	6
Brahmin	144,000	8
Gurjar	183,000	10.1
Punjabi	126,000	7
Rajput	94,000	5
Kamboj	63,000	3.5
Jatt Sikh	54,000	3
Ror	54,000	3
Muslim	36,000	2
Kashyap	54,000	3
Ramgarhiya	36,000	2
Other OBC Gen	149,400	8.3

Assembly segments

At present, Kurukshetra Lok Sabha constituency comprises nine Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituencies. These are:^[2]

#	Name	District	Member
10	Radaur	Yamunanagar	Bishan Lal Saini	INC	BJP
11	Ladwa	Kurukshetra	Mewa Singh	INC	BJP
12	Shahbad (SC)		Ram Karan	JJP	AAP
13	Thanesar		Subhash Sudha	BJP	BJP
14	Pehowa		Sandeep Singh	BJP	AAP
15	Guhla (SC)	Kaithal	Ishwar Singh	JJP	AAP
16	Kalayat		Kamlesh Dhanda	BJP	AAP
17	Kaithal		Leela Ram	BJP	BJP
18	Pundri		Randhir Singh Gollen	Ind	BJP

Members of Parliament

Year	Winner
1957	Mool Chand Jain	Indian National Congress
1962	Dev Dutt Puri
1967	Gulzarilal Nanda
1971	Gulzarilal Nanda
1977	Raghubir Singh Virk	Janata Party
1980	Manohar Lal Saini	Janata Party (Secular)
1984	Sardar Harpal Singh	Indian National Congress
1989	Gurdial Singh Saini	Janata Dal
1991	Tara Singh	Indian National Congress
1996	Om Prakash Jindal	Haryana Vikas Party
1998	Kailasho Devi	Indian National Lok Dal
1999	Kailasho Devi	Indian National Lok Dal
2004	Naveen Jindal	Indian National Congress
2009	Naveen Jindal	Indian National Congress
2014	Raj Kumar Saini	Bharatiya Janata Party
2019	Nayab Singh Saini
2024	Naveen Jindal

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general elections: Kurukshetra
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Naveen Jindal	542,175	44.96	11.02
	AAP	Sushil Gupta	5,13,154	42.55	New
	INLD	Abhay Singh Chautala	78,708	6.53	1.6
	BSP	Deepak Mehra	20,944	1.74	4.41
	Independent	Jai Kumar Saini Hamidpur	8,093	0.67	New
	JJP	Pala Ram Saini	6,182	0.51	5.06
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,439	0.20
Majority			29,021	2.41	28.86
Turnout			12,05,872
	BJP hold		Swing	11.02

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Kurukshetra^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Nayab Singh Saini	686,588	55.98	19.17
	INC	Nirmal Singh	3,03,722	24.71	0.62
	BSP	Shashi	75,533	6.15	0.08
	JJP	Jai Bhagwan Sharma	68,437	5.57	new
	INLD	Arjun Chautala	60,574	4.93	20.46
Majority			3,84,591	31.27	19.85
Turnout			12,31,165	74.29	1.51
	BJP hold		Swing

2014

2014 Indian general elections: Kurukshetra^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Raj Kumar Saini	418,112	36.81	36.81
	INLD	Balbir Saini	2,88,376	25.39	6.42
	INC	Naveen Jindal	2,87,722	25.33	20.04
	BSP	Chhattar Singh	68,926	6.07	11.20
	NOTA	None of the above	2,482	0.22	N/A
Majority			1,29,736	11.42	2.14
Turnout			11,35,892	75.80	0.76
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	36.81

2009

2009 Indian general elections: Kurukshetra^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Naveen Jindal	397,204	45.36
	INLD	Ashok Kumar Arora	2,78,475	31.80
	BSP	Gurdyal Singh Saini	1,51,231	17.27
	HJC(BL)	Jaswant Singh Cheema	16,839	1.92
Majority			1,18,729	13.56
Turnout			8,75,536	75.04
	INC hold		Swing

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Notes

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[delimitation2008-1] "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.

[2] "Parliamentary/Assembly Constituency wise Electors in Final Roll 2009" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Haryana. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2009.

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v t e Lok Sabha constituencies of Haryana
Current	Ambala Bhiwani–Mahendragarh Faridabad Gurgaon Hisar Karnal Kurukshetra Rohtak Sirsa Sonipat
Defunct	Bhiwani Mahendragarh

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