Haryana: Haryanvi is no less pressing the NOTA button because if the voter doesn’t like a candidate, he will press NOTA. NOTA was used for the first time in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and was used extensively by voters in three districts each, with voters in Ambala, Rohtak and Sirsa voicing their displeasure. Nota disliked political parties like Shiromani Akali Dal and Aam Aadmi Party and gave more votes to NOTA in the elections. More than 80 percent of voters also did not think it was appropriate to vote for independent candidates.
Candidates from various parties had to kneel before NOTA.
34,000 220 residents of the state did not like any candidate in the elections. He thought it appropriate to press NOTA on EVM. If we look at the numbers, at number one in Ambala, 7816 voters did not think it was appropriate to vote for a candidate. As for the second place, Rohtak district remained where 4932 voters chose NOTA. Sirsa came third. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, 41,000,781 voters rejected all candidates and opted for NOTA, accounting for 0.33 percent of the total voters. Then there were 203 candidates in the fray for all 10 Lok Sabha seats, of which 162 got fewer votes than NOTA. 23 candidates in Sonipat and 10 candidates in Karnal had lost due to NOTA.
Lowest use of NOTA in Bhiwani-Mahendragarh
There was not a single seat in Lok Sabha where NOTA got less than 2000 votes. Maximum 7943 voters voted for NOTA in Ambala while NOTA in Bhiwani-Mahendragarh got the least 2,041 votes. 4,986 voters in Faridabad, 5,389 in Gurgaon, 2,957 in Hisar, 5,463 in Karnal, 3,198 in Kurukshetra, 3,001 in Rohtak, 4,339 in Sirsa and 2,464 in Sonipat opted for NOTA.
