Panipat Rural Assembly constituency

Panipat Rural Assembly constituency is one of the 90 constituencies in the Haryana Legislative Assembly of Haryana a northern state of India. It is also part of Karnal (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Panipat Rural Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 24 for the Haryana Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Haryana
District	Karnal district
Total electors	2,85,756
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Haryana Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Mahipal Dhanda (Bharatiya Janata Party, 26 October 2014 – )

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[2]	Party
Till 2009: Constituency did not exist
2009	Om Prakash Jain		Independent politician
2014	Mahipal Dhanda		Bharatiya Janata Party
2019
2024

Election results

Assembly Election 2024

2024 Haryana Legislative Assembly election: Panipat Rural^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Mahipal Dhanda	101,079	50.25%	9.48
	INC	Sachin Kundu	50,867	25.29%	18.80
	Independent	Vijay Jain	43,323	21.54%	New
	AAP	Sukhvir Malik	1,682	0.84%	New
	BSP	Ranbir Singh	1,615	0.80%	6.26
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,153	0.57%	0.03
Margin of victory			50,212	24.96%	11.62
Turnout			2,01,139	69.51%	1.63
Registered electors			2,85,756		19.37
	BJP hold		Swing	9.48

Assembly Election 2019

2019 Haryana Legislative Assembly election: Panipat Rural^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Mahipal Dhanda	67,086	40.77	0.70
	JJP	Devender Kadian	45,125	27.42
	Independent	Sandeep Bhardwaj	20,393	12.39
	BSP	Balkar Malik	11,619	7.06	4.45
	INC	Om Parkash Jain	10,679	6.49	3.35
	LSP	Lakhmi Chand	3,831	2.33
	INLD	Kuldeep Rathee	2,052	1.25	14.12
	CPI	Jamshed Rana	1,287	0.78
	NOTA	None of the above	897	0.55
Margin of victory			21,961	13.35	9.98
Turnout			1,64,545	67.88	8.19
Registered electors			2,42,423		19.03
	BJP hold		Swing	0.70

Assembly Election 2014

2014 Haryana Legislative Assembly election: Panipat Rural^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Mahipal Dhanda	62,074	40.07	34.04
	Independent	Dhara Singh	25,942	16.75
	INLD	Nishan Singh Malik	23,804	15.37	2.48
	INC	Khushi Ram Jaglan	15,247	9.84	2.67
	Independent	Ramphal Begampur	5,390	3.48
	Independent	Sanjay Kadyan	4,156	2.68
	BSP	Ram Niwas Sharma	4,043	2.61	5.69
Margin of victory			36,132	23.32	16.41
Turnout			1,54,915	76.07	0.06
Registered electors			2,03,657		61.19
	BJP gain from Independent		Swing	15.32

Assembly Election 2009

2009 Haryana Legislative Assembly election: Panipat Rural

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Om Prakash Jain	23,770	24.75
	INLD	Bimla Kadian	17,134	17.84
	Independent	Dhara Singh	12,221	12.73
	INC	Parsani Devi	12,017	12.51
	HJC(BL)	Bijender Singh Kadyan	9,830	10.24
	BSP	Satvinder	7,969	8.30
	BJP	Surender	5,791	6.03
	Independent	Tilak Raj	3,869	4.03
	Independent	Pawan Kumar	1,185	1.23
	Independent	Mukesh Balmiki	566	0.59
Margin of victory			6,636	6.91
Turnout			96,031	76.01
Registered electors			1,26,347
	Independent win (new seat)