Lok Sabha Election result Haryana: Out of 11 women candidates, only BJP's Sunita Duggal, ex-IRS officer, manages to win

Duggal, former Indian Revenue Service officer-turned-politician, was the only woman candidate fielded by the BJP from Haryana, which has 10 Lok Sabha seats.

The bureaucrat-turned-politician defeated state Congress chief Ashok Tanwar by a margin of 3,09,918 votes./ IMAGE: SunitaDuggal7

Chandigarh: In the state of Haryana, where BJP gave a stupendous performance by sweeping ten seats, BJP's Sunita Duggal emerged as the only women candidates out of the 11 others in the fray for the Lok Sabha polls to win a seat. Duggal, a former IRS officer, was the only woman candidate fielded by the BJP from Haryana, which has 10 Lok Sabha seats. BJP’s bureaucrat-turned-politician Duggal defeated state Congress chief Ashok Tanwar from the Sirsa (reserved) constituency. The bureaucrat-turned-politician defeated state Congress chief Ashok Tanwar by a margin of 3,09,918 votes.

आज सुबह सिरसा स्थित मेरे निवास स्थान पर लोकसभा क्षेत्र सिरसा के विभिन्न इलाकों से मिलने आए सभी साथियों का धन्यवाद। लोकतंत्र में हार-जीत तो लगी रहती है पर जब सफलता प्राप्ति से दूर रह जाने के बाद भी लोग आप पर भरोसा बनाए रखें तो आप को भविष्य के संघर्षों के लिए ऊर्जा मिलती है। pic.twitter.com/AAgW08fR2j

— Ashok Tanwar (@AshokTanwar_INC) May 24, 2019

In the state, the party saw its vote share surge in comparison to the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. As per the data made available by the Election Commission, the BJP's vote share in the 2019 polls was nearly 58.02 per cent as against Congress' 28.42 per cent. The BJP, which won seven of the eight Lok Sabha seats it contested in 2014, had managed to get a vote share of 34.7 per cent as compared to 17.21 per cent in 2009 when it failed to win any seat. Other women candidates like Kumari Selja (Ambala) and Shruti Choudhary (Bhiwani-Mahendergarh) of the Congress, JJP's Swati Yadav (Bhiwani-Mahendergarh) and Raj Bala Saini (Sonipat) of the Loktantra Suraksha Party were defeated. Lok Sabha elections in Haryana and female candidates - Haryana has elected only five women parliamentarians in 53 years of its existence. In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, not even a single woman candidate could manage to win in the state, which is known for its skewed gender ratio. Chandravati, a former Janta Party leader, became the first ever woman MP from the state in 1977. Selja, a Rajya Sabha MP, is the only woman to have been elected to the Lok Sabha thrice -- twice from Ambala and once from Sirsa. Shruti Chaudhary, grand daughter of former chief minister Chaudhary Bansi Lal, was earlier elected as an MP from Bhiwani-Mahendargarh constituency in the 2009 Lok Sabha election. In 1999, the state sent two women MPs to the Lok Sabha -- BJP's Sudha Yadav from Bhiwani-Mahendergarh and Kailasho Saini of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) from Kurukshetra. This year, the BJP won all the 10 seats in the state. According to data made available by the Election Commission, the BJP's vote share in the 2019 polls was nearly 58.02 per cent as against Congress' 28.42 per cent. (agency inputs) WATCH: Seats where Congress failed to open its account in 2019 Lok Sabha elections