Haryana Assembly elections: Events through the day

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Violence rocked several parts of Haryana as the state went to polls. Several vehicles were burnt in Hisar in clashes between Jats and Dalits.

Faridabad/Rohtak: 6.54 pm: Haryana records highest voter turnout ever, at 73 per cent.

6.30 pm: Haryana crosses 2009 figures to reach 73 per cent voter turnout; Kaithal and Sirsa record highest figure at 80.4 per cent.

6.00 pm: 72.1 per cent total voter turnout till 6.00 pm. Sirsa registers the maximum turnout at 79.4 per cent, Faridabad records lowest at 57.6 per cent.

3:40 pm: Haryana Assembly elections: 56 per cent polling in Haryana till 3:30 pm

3:24 pm: Violence in Haryana's Hisar. Clashes between Jat and Dalit communities over voting. Several vehicles have been burnt. Police and fire brigade have been deployed in the area.

2:16 pm: Haryana poll per cent till 2pm: 45 per cent

1:53pm:Haryana poll per cent: 42 per cent at 1:30 pm

12:23 pm: Over 31 per cent voting has been recorded in Haryana till noon with Kurukshetra recording the highest turnout of 37.6 per cent and Faridabad with 25.7 per cent.

11:41 am: Voting is fast picking up in Haryana and was at 22 per cent till 11 am.

11:36 am Clashes break out between INLD and BJP supporters. Two reported injured in the firing that followed.

10:42 am: Voting has now picked up in Haryana and the turnout is 13.8 per cent. The highest voting percentage in Haryana so far is in Kurukshetra, that is 18.1 per cent. In Faridabad, it is 8.1 per cent.

9:30 am: The voting recorded in Haryana in the first two hours is dismal. Only 2.8 per cent turnout has been recorded till 9 am.

Haryana has begun voting for its 90 Assembly seats. It's going to be a three-cornered contest between the incumbent Congress, the INLD and the BJP in the state.

The BJP is hoping to enlarge its footprint in Haryana and has made a pitch for development and a corruption-free government. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda is facing two term anti-incumbency.

INLD chief and former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala has sounded a confident note saying that his party will form the next government.

For the time, since the state of Haryana was created in 1967, it has been witnessing a hotly contested triangular fight with some minor parties thrown in. The BJP, which had been a fringe force in the state, has emerged as a prime political party overnight demolishing all established political theories. The Congress, which has been in power since 2005, is facing the toughest battle and trying its best to save its clout under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) of the Chautala clan seems to have regained its strength and is giving a very tough fight to both the Congress and BJP.

Haryana has 90 Assembly seats and 10 Lok Sabha seats. Out of total 90 Assembly seats, 73 are general seats and 17 seats are reserved for the Scheduled Castes (SCs).

A total of 1351 candidates are in the fray. Of them, less than 10 per cent or just 109 candidates are women. 603 candidates are Independents. There are 16,357 polling booths in the state. 1,63,18,577 voters are eligible to exercise their constitutional right in the current election. Of them, 87,37,116 are male voters and 74,79,439 are female voters.

Key Candidates

Congress

- Bhupinder Singh Hooda - Garhi Sampla - Kiloi

- Kuldeep Sharma - Gannaur

- Savitri Jindal - Hisar

- Randeep Singh Surjewala - Kaithal

- Sampath Singh - Nalwa

- Captain Ajay Yadav - Rewari

- Kiran Chaudhury - Tosham

- Geeta Bhukkal - Jhajjar

INLD

- Abhay Singh Chautala - Ellenabad