Kurukshetra Lok Sabha constituency

Kurukshetra Lok Sabha constituency 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.

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	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2024

Kurukshetra Lok Sabha seat was initially Kaithal Lok Sabha seat and till 1977 its headquarters was also Kaithal. Kurukshetra Lok Sabha seat came into existence in 1977. Elections from 2nd to 5th Lok Sabha were held at Kaithal Lok Sabha seat.

Assembly segments

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

#	Name	District	Member	Party		Leading (in 2024)
10	Radaur	Yamunanagar	Shyam Singh Rana		BJP		BJP
11	Ladwa	Kurukshetra	Nayab Singh Saini		BJP		BJP
12	Shahbad (SC)		Ram Karan		INC		AAP
13	Thanesar		Ashok Kumar Arora		INC		BJP
14	Pehowa		Mandeep Chatha		INC		AAP
15	Guhla (SC)	Kaithal	Devender Hans		INC		AAP
16	Kalayat		Vikas Saharan		INC		AAP
17	Kaithal		Aditya Surjewala		INC		BJP
18	Pundri		Satpal Jamba		BJP		BJP

Members of Parliament

Year	Winner	Party
1957	Mool Chand Jain		Indian National Congress
1962	Dev Dutt Puri
1967	Gulzarilal Nanda
1971
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
2004	Naveen Jindal		Indian National Congress
2009
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	1.60
	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			12,06,961	67.06	7.23
	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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See also

• Kurukshetra district
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha

Notes