On the last day of filing of nomination papers for Assembly elections in Haryana, a total of 1,239 nominations were filed thus, raising their total number to 2,049 for the Assembly polls 2014.
Chief Electoral Officer, Haryana, Shrikant Walgad said that since the inception of Haryana, a maximum number of 4,813 nomination papers were filed during the Assembly elections of 1996. As many as 776 nominations were filed in the State in 1967 whereas in 1968 these were 686.