Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024 Live: 50.65% voter turnout till 3 pm has been recorded in Jammu and Kashmir on 18 September, with the highest turnout recorded in Inderwal at 72.20 per cent and the lowest in Pulwama at 36.90 per cent.

This is the first assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370. The Modi government had abrogated Article 370 on August 5, 2019.

Jammu and Kashmir is holding an Assembly election, its first as a Union Territory. In Phase 1 today, 24 constituencies go to polls. In Bijbehara, the family turf of the Muftis, PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter is in the fray.

Polling for the first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections began on September 18 amid tight security arrangements. The voting process that began at 7 am will conclude at 6 pm, per the Election Commission of India.

The Inderwal Assembly constituency recorded a turnout of 82.16 percent, the highest in the first phase followed by Padder-Nagseni at 80.67 percent.

Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024 Live Updates, Today: Kishtwar reported the highest turnout at 77 per cent, while Pulwama had the lowest at 46 per cent, P K Pole, CEO, said.

Chief Electoral Officer PK Pole announced that this marks the highest voter turnout in the last seven Lok Sabha and assembly elections in the region.

The phased election for choosing a local government in Indian-controlled Kashmir has opened in the first such vote since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government stripped the disputed region of its s