Haryana Legislative Assembly


The Haryana Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Haryana. The seating of the assembly is at Chandigarh, the capital of the state. There are seats in the house filled by direct election using a single-member first-past-the-post voting system. The term of office is five years.

Significance

is responsible to Haryana Legislative Assembly.

History

The body was founded in 1966, when the state was created from part of the state of Punjab, by the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966. The house initially had 54 seats, ten reserved for scheduled castes, this was increased to 81 seats in March 1967, and to 90 seats in 1977. The highest number of seats ever won was in 1977 when Janata Party won 75 out of 90 seats in the aftermath of the 1975–77 emergency by Indian National Congress's Indira Gandhi. INC won only 3 seats, Vishal Haryana Party and independents both won 5 seats each.
Since the formation of Haryana in 1966, the state politics became infamously dominated by the nepotistic clans of five political dynasts, Lal trio as well as the Hooda clan and Rao Birender clan. The Mewat region, remotely to the rest of Haryana since its formation, has been dominated by three major political dynasts. The infamous Aaya Ram Gaya Ram politics, named after Gaya Lal in 1967, of frequent floor-crossing, turncoating, switching parties and political horse trading within short span of time became associated with Haryana.

ElectionLegislative AssemblyFromToFirst sitting
1962 [Punjab Legislative Assembly election|1962]1st Assembly1 November 196628 February 1967 6 December 1966
19672nd Assembly17 March 196721 November 1967 17 March 1967
19683rd Assembly15 July 196821 January 1972 15 July 1968
19724th Assembly3 April 197230 April 1977 3 April 1972
19775th Assembly4 July 197719 April 19824 July 1977
19826th Assembly24 June 198223 June 198724 June 1982
19877th Assembly9 July 19876 April 19919 July 1987
19918th Assembly9 July 199110 May 19969 July 1991
19969th Assembly22 May 199614 December 199922 May 1996
200010th Assembly9 March 20008 March 20059 March 2000
200511th Assembly21 March 200521 August 200921 March 2005
200912th Assembly28 October 200920 October 201428 October 2009
201413th Assembly20 October 201428 October 201927 October 2014
201914th Assembly28 October 20198 October 20244 November 2019
202415th Assembly8 October 2024

List of Assemblies

The elections for the Haryana Vidhan Sabha are being held since 1967.