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Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024: The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has voted in the first phase on September 18 and now the second and third phases of voting will take place on 25 and October 1, 2024. Results will be announced on October 8, along with Haryana assembly results.
The people of the valley will vote five years after the reading down of Article 370 and the end of “special status” — a period in which the political process had come to a standstill.
The last Assembly elections in J&K were held in 2014, but the government was dissolved after the BJP withdrew its support to Mehbooba Mufti’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led government in 2018.
Elections for District Development Councils were held towards the end of 2020. Lok Sabha elections earlier this year saw a heartening turnout in J&K — at 58.46 per cent, it was the highest in the last 35 years.
The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has 90 Assembly seats. While the BJP will contest elections alone, the National Conference (NC) and Congress have allied for the elections under which NC will be contesting from 51 seats while the latter will contest from 32 seats beside a friendly contest between the two parties in five assembly segments. One seat each has been left free for CPI (M) in south Kashmir and Panthers Party in Jammu division.
| Phase 1 | Polling Date | BJP Candidates | INC-NC candidates | PDP Candidates |
| Number of ACs- 24 | September 18, 2024 | |||
| Pampore | Syed Showkat Gayoor Andrabi | Retd. Justice Hussnain Masoodi (NC) | Zahoor Ahmad Mir | |
| Tral | Surinder Singh Channi (Congress) | Rafiq Ahmad Naik | ||
| Pulwama | Mohammad Khalil Bandh (NC) | Waheed-ur Rehman Parra | ||
| Rajpora | Arshid Bhat | Gh. Mohi-Ud-Din Mir (NC) | Syed Bashir Ahmed | |
| Zainapora | Showkat Hussain Ganie (NC) | |||
| Shopian | Javed Ahmad Qadri | Sheikh Mohammad Rafi (NC) | Yawar Bandey | |
| D.H. Pora | Sakina Ittoo (NC) | Gulzar Ahmed Dar | ||
| Kulgam | Mohd Amin Dar | |||
| Devsar | Amanullah Mantoo (Congress)
Peerzada Feroze Ahmad (NC) |
Sartaj Ahmad Madani | ||
| Dooru | Ghulam Ahmad Mir | Mohd Ashraf Malik | ||
| Kokernag (ST) | Choudhary Roshan Hussain Gujjar | |||
| Anantnag West | Mohd Rafiq Wani | Abdul Majeed Larmib (NC) | Abdul Majeed Larmi (NC) | |
| Anantnag | Syed Wazahat | Peerzada Mohd Syed (Congress) | Mehboob Beg | |
| Srigufwara – Bijbehara | Sofi Yousuf | D.r Bashir Ahmad Veeri (NC) | Iltija Mufti | |
| Shangus – Anantnag East | Veer Saraf | Reyaz Ahmad Khan (NC) | Abdul Rehman Veeri | |
| Pahalgam | Altaf Ahmad Kaloo (NC) | Shabir Siddiqui | ||
| Inderwal | Tariq Keen | Sheikh Zafarullah (Congress) | Sheikh Nasir Hussian | |
| Kishtwar | Sushri Shagun Parihar | Sajad Kichloo (NC) | Firdous Ahmad Tak | |
| Padder – Nagseni | Sunil Sharma | Pooja Thokur (NC) | Sandesh Mahajan | |
| Bhadarwah | Daleep Singh Parihar | Nadeem Sharief (Congress) Story continues below this ad Mehboob Iqbal (NC) |
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| Doda | Gajay Singh Rana | Sheikh Riyaz (Congress)
Khalid Najeeb Soharwardy (NC) |
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| Doda West | Shakti Raj Parihar | Dr Pradeep Kumar Bhagat (Congress) | ||
| Ramban | Rakesh Thakur | Arjun Singh Raju (NC) | ||
| Banihal | Salim Bhat | Sajad Shaheen (NC) | ||
| 2ND PHASE | Polling Date | |||
| Number of AC- 26 | September 25, 2024 | |||
| Kangan (ST) | Mian Mehar Ali (NC) | Syed Jamaat Ali Shaheen | ||
| Ganderbal | Omar Abdullah (NC) | Bashir Ahmed Mir | ||
| Hazratbal | Salman Ali Sagar (NC | Asiea Naqash | ||
| Khanyar |
Ali Mohammad Sagar (NC)
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| Habbakadal | Ashok Bhat |
Shameema Firdous (NC)
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Arif Laigroo | |
| Lal Chowk | Er. Aijaz Hussain |
Ahsan Pardesi (NC)
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Zuhaib Yousf Mir | |
| Channapora | Hilal Ahmad Wani |
Mushtaq Guroo (NC)
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| Zadibal |
Tanvir Sadiq (NC)
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Sheikh Gowher Ali | ||
| Eidgah | Arif Raja |
Mubarak Gull (NC)
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Mohammad Khursheed Alam | |
| Central Shalteng |
Saif-Ud-Din Bhat (NC)
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Ab Qayoom Bhat | ||
| Budgam |
Abdul Raheem Rather (NC)
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Aga Syed Munatzir Mehdi | ||
| Beerwah |
Ali Mohammad Dar (NC)
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| Khansahib | Dr. Ali Mohammad Mir |
Er. Khursheed (NC)
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| Chrar-i-Sharief | Zahid Hussain | Abdul Raheem Rather (NC) | ||
| Chadoora | Ali Mohammad Dar (NC) | Mohd Yaseen Bhat | ||
| Gulabgarh (ST) | Mohammad Akram Chaudhary | Er. Khursheed (NC) | Farooq Inqilabi | |
| Reasi | Kuldeep Raj Dubey | Mumtaz Khan (Congress) | ||
| Shri Mata Vaishno Devi | Baldev Raj Sharma | Bhupender Jamwal (Congress) | ||
| Kalakote – Sunderbani | Thakur Randhir Singh | Yashu Vardhan Singh (NC) | ||
| Nowshera | Ravinder Raina |
Surinder Chowdary (NC)
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Haq Nawaz | |
| Rajouri (ST) | Vibodh Gupta | Iftkar Ahmed (Congress) | Master Tasaduq Hussain | |
| Budhal (ST) | Chowdhary Zulfikar Ali |
Javid Chowdary (NC)
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Guftar Ahmed Choudhary | |
| Thannamandi (ST) | Mohd. Iqbal Malik | Bhupender Jamwal (Congress) | Qamar Hussain Choudhary | |
| Surankote (ST) | Syed Mushtaq Ahmad Bukhari | Bhupender Jamwal (Congress) | ||
| Poonch Haveli | Chowdhary Abdul Ghani | Ajaz Ahmad Jan (NC) | Shamim Ganai | |
| Mendhar (ST) | Murtaza Khan |
Javid Rana (NC)
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Mahroof Khan | |
| 3rd PHASE | Polling Date | |||
| Number of AC- 40 | October 1, 2024 | |||
| Karnah | Mohd. Idrees Karnahi |
Javid Mirchal (NC)
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Fidous Ahmed Mir | |
| Trehgam | Dr. Manohar Lal Sharma (Congress) | |||
| Kupwara | Nasir Aslam Wani (NC) | Fayaz Ahmad Mir | ||
| Lolab | Qaiser Jamsheed Lone (NC) | Abdul Haq Khan | ||
| Handwara | Ghulam Mohammad Mir | Chowdary Mohammad Ramzan (NC) | ||
| Langate | Irshad Ab Gani (Congress) | |||
| Sopore |
Irshad Rasool Kar (NC)
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Irfan Ali Lone | ||
| Rafiabad | Javid Ahmad Dar (NC) | |||
| Uri | Dr. Sajad Shafi Uri (NC) | |||
| Baramulla | Javid Hussain Beigh (NC) | Mohammad Rafiq Rather | ||
| Gulmarg | ||||
| Wagoora – Kreeri | Adv. Irfan Hafeez Lone (Congress) | Basharat Bukhari | ||
| Pattan | Javid Reyaz Bedar (NC) | Javaid Iqbal Ganaie | ||
| Sonawari | Abdul Rasheed Khan | Hilal Akbar Lone (NC) | ||
| Bandipora | Naseer Ahmad Lone | Nizamuddin Bhat (Congress) | Syed Tajamul Islam | |
| Gurez(ST) | Faqir Mohammad Khan | Nazir Ahmad Gurezi (NC) | ||
| Udhampur West | Pawan Gupta | Summit Mangotra (Congress) | ||
| Udhampur East | R.S. Pathania | Sunil Verma (NC) | ||
| Chenani | Balwant Singh Mankotia | |||
| Ramnagar (SC) | Sunil Bhardwaj | |||
| Bani | Jeevan Lal | Kajal Rajput (Congress) | ||
| Billawar | Satish Sharma | Dr. Manohar Lal Sharma (Congress) | ||
| Basohli | Darshan Singh | Ch. Lal Singh (Congress) | ||
| Jasrota | Rajiv Jasrotia | Thakur Balbir Singh (Congress) | ||
| Kathua (SC) | Dr. Bharat Bhushan | Subhash Chander Azad (NC) | ||
| Hiranagar | Adv Vijay Kumar Sharma | Rakesh Choudhary Jatt (Congress) | ||
| Ramgarh (SC) | Dr Devinder Kumar Maniyal | Yashpal Kundal (Congress) | ||
| Samba | Surjit Singh Slathia | Krishan Dev Singh (Congress) | Rajender Manhas | |
| Vijaypur | Chandra Prakash Ganga | Rajesh Pargotra (NC) | ||
| Bishnah (SC) | Rajeev Bhagat | Neeraj Kundan (Congress) | ||
| Suchetgarh (SC) | Gharu Ram Bhagat | Bushan Dogra (Congress) | ||
| R.S. Pura – Jammu South | Dr Narinder Singh Raina | Raman Bhalla (Congress) | ||
| Bahu | Vikram Randhawa | T.S. Tony (Congress) | Verinder Singh Sonu | |
| Jammu East | Yudhvir Sethi | Yogesh Sawhney (Congress | ||
| Nagrota | Dr Devinder Singh Rana | Balbir Singh (Congress) | ||
| Jammu West | Arvind Gupta | Thakur Manmohan Singh (Congress) | ||
| Jammu North | Sham Lal Sharma | Ajay Kumar Sadhotra (NC) | ||
| Marh (SC) | Surinder Bhagat | Mula Ram (Congress) | ||
| Akhnoor (SC) | Mohan Lal Bhagat | Ashok Bhagat (Congress) | ||
| Chhamb | Rajeev Sharma | Tara Chand (Congress) |
What is the total number of voters in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024?
As per the Election Commission of India, a total of 88,66,704 voters are registered for polling. Among these, 4,27,813 are of 18-19 years of age. The UT will have 11,838 polling stations to conduct elections in three phases.
