Jannayak Janata Party's (JJP) Amarjeet Dhanda won the Julana Vidhan Sabha seat. He defeated siting MLA and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Parminder Singh Dhull with a margin of 24,193 votes. Dhanda received 61, 837 votes, while Parminder got 37,556 votes. Congress candidate Dharmender Singh Dhull came at third spot with 12,371 votes. Dhull had also won 2009 elections. The counting of votes for Haryana Assembly Elections 2019 began at 8 am today.

The Julana Vidhan Sabha constituency falls in the Jind district of Haryana. Voting in Julana for the Haryana Assembly Elections 2019 took place on October 21. Polling for the 90-member Haryana assembly will be held along with assembly elections in Maharashtra. The Election Commission of India (ECI) on September 21 announced the election schedule for Haryana. Haryana Assembly Elections 2019: Full List of Constituencies With Current MLA Names and How BJP, Congress, INLD Performed in 2014.

According to the schedule of Haryana polls announced by the Election Commission, nomination papers can be filed till October 4. Nomination papers were scrutinised on October 5. The last date of withdrawal of candidature was October 7.  Assembly Elections 2019 Dates: Maharashtra & Haryana Go to Polls in Single-Phase on October 21, Results on October 24.

In Haryana, the main fight was between the Congress and the BJP.  However, the newly formed JPP managed to dent vote share of both the parties. In the 2014 polls in the state, the BJP had won with a thumping majority and had scripted history in the state. The BJP had won 47 seats, while the Congress managed to win only 15 seats.

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Rajkumar PahalAAP958
Telu Ram JangraIND930
Amit Malik NidaniINLD826
KapilIND82
NareshBSP4020
Parminder Singh DhullBJP37749
Pala Ram BibipurIND286
Amit SharmaIND264
Dharmender Singh DhullINC12440
Raj SinghIND104
Ramesh ChanderCommunist Party of India (Marxist)NA
Amarjeet DhandaJannayak Janta PartyNA
Manjeet SinghSwaraj IndiaNA
RamkaranSarva Hit PartyNA
Ramphool SharmaLoktanter Suraksha PartyNA

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