Srinagar: In line with the early trends, the Congress-National Conference (NC) alliance is going strong in Jammu and Kashmir. The alliance has already crossed the halfway mark in Jammu and Kashmir, according to latest reports around noon. The counting was underway.
According to the data on Election Commission of India website around 12.30pm, the NC was leading on 42 seats and Congress on 8 seats, the BJP was leading on 27 seats. The alliance of INC and NC was ahead on at least 50 seats. The counting of votes began at 8 am amid heavy security arrangements. Meanwhile, there were celebrations in the Congress offices in Jammu and Kashmir around noon.
#WATCH | #JammuKashmirElections2024 | J&K Congress chief Tariq Hameed Karra and workers of the party celebrate at the party office in Srinagar.
As per the latest EC data, JKNC-Congress alliance is leading on 50 of the 90 seats; JKNC is leading on 42 and Congress on 8 seats. pic.twitter.com/0nrvLyJzN0
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The assembly elections for its 90 constituencies were held in three phases – September 18, September 25, and October 1 – after a gap of 10 years.
This is the first time that Jammu and Kashmir conducted its assembly elections as an Union Territory after the scrapping of Article 370 in 2019, which led to the splitting of the former state into the Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.
The voter turnout was 63.88%, as per the Election Commission of India.
The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference and Congress had forged an alliance even as the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) contested separately. The PDP-BJP coalition had collapsed in 2018 in Jammu and Kashmir.
