The Bharatiya Janata Party won again in Haryana, holding off the Indian National Congress.

It won 48 of the 90 seats.

It has now won 3 elections in a row.

That left it 2 seats clear of the 46-seat majority mark.

The INC finished almost level on votes, 39.1% against 39.9% — the slice of all ballots cast that went to one party or candidate.

On 12 March 2024, Manohar Lal Khattar resigned as chief minister after the coalition between the BJP and the Jannayak Janta Party ended, and Nayab Singh Saini was sworn in as chief minister the same day.¹

In July, the Indian National Lok Dal and the Bahujan Samaj Party announced an alliance to contest the election together. The Congress launched its "Haryana Maange Hisab Abhiyan" on 15 July, covering all 90 assembly constituencies to highlight what it called governance failures by the state government.²³

In August, the Jannayak Janta Party, whose coalition with the BJP had ended in March, announced its own alliance with the Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram).⁴

The Election Commission announced the poll schedule on 16 August, setting a single-phase election for 1 October. On 31 August it revised the date to 5 October, with counting on 8 October.⁵⁶

On 6 September, wrestler Vinesh Phogat joined the Congress, which fielded her from the Julana constituency. On 12 September the Congress also announced an alliance with the Communist Party of India (Marxist).⁷⁸

The result also left the assembly split among very few parties.

4 parties in total won any seats, with 3 more going to independents.

The BJP itself grew from 40 seats to 48.

The biggest movement ran from the INC to the BJP, accounting for 14 of the 49 seats that changed hands.

The tightest race was at Uchana Kalan, Haryana, decided by a margin of 32 votes — how far ahead the winner finished, over whoever came second.

Ferozepur Jhirka, Haryana was the widest win, by 54.3% of the vote.

Ellenabad, Haryana recorded the highest turnout of any seat, 81.0% — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot.

Hisar, Haryana drew the most candidates, 21 names on the ballot.

NOTA — None of the Above, a ballot option letting voters formally reject every candidate on offer — drew 53,300 votes statewide, 0.4% of the total.

Haryana became a separate state on 1 November 1966, carved out of Punjab's Hindi-majority districts, with an assembly of 81 seats.⁹

A Delimitation Commission order later enlarged the assembly from 81 to 90 seats, first used at the 1977 election, when the Janata Party won 75 of the 90 seats and the outgoing Congress fell to 3.¹⁰

The Jannayak Janta Party, one of this election's contestants, split from the Indian National Lok Dal in December 2018.¹¹