J&K Election Results 2024 LIVE: Security Beefed Up At Several Places Ahead Of Vote-Counting

Security arrangements have been tightened at Ramban's district administrative complex ahead ❀of 👍the vote-counting.

BJP's J&K 🐓President and party candidate from Nowshera, Ravinder Raina, expressed full faith in his party and its alliance partners, and the Independent candidates, saying that they will together form the government in Jammu and Kashmir.

"The BJP will win 30-35 seats and about 15 Independent candidates and other candidates from alliance parties are likely to wi💮n," Raina said.

Congress leader Ghulam Ahmad Mir s🐬aid that as per local trends hiꦍs party is receiving from Anantnag and Kashmir, "the results would be in favour of Congress-NC alliance and other like-minded parties".

"However, these are early trends, this will get more clear with time. BJP has no scope to form the government," Mir told news agency PTI.

Security has been beefed up at Jammu's government Polytechnic Colle🥀ge counting centre ahead of the vote-c𝕴ounting process today.

Congress' J&K unit leader Suhail Bukhari said, "We are hoping that the INDIA alli🐎ance will perform good. I am saying this very confidently that we will get good numbers, and the BJP will be wiped off. However, we should wait for some more time and then I will be able to talk in detail."

Ahead of the counting of votes, J&K BJP President and party's Nowshera candidate Ravinder Raina performed 'havan' in Jammu.

In view of the vote-counting 𝔉process, security measures have been tightened at the Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKI🐎CC).

The vote-counting 💛process for both J&K and Haryana will take place simultaneously today at 8 aꦡm.

While Jammu and Kashmir ꦰhad voted in three phases -- September 18, 25 and October 1. Haryana had voted in a single phase on October 5.

You can track the Haryana poll results with Outlook India here: Haryana Election Results 2024 LIVE

In the 2014 Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Peoples Democratic party (JKPDP) emerged as the single-largest party with 28 seats, closely followed by the Bharatiya Janata Party with 25 seats. This lead to the formation of a coalition government under Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. Following his death, Mehbooba Mufti took charge as the Chief Minister but꧅, she resigned in 2018 after the B🦄JP withdrew from the coalition.

The National Conference (JKNC) bagged 15 seats in the 2014 polls, while the Congress won 12 seats.

Some of 🦂the prominent candidates in the fray in Jammu and Kashmir are:

• Ravinder Raina (BJP, Nowshera)

• Choudhary Lal Singh (Congress, Basohli)

• Sham Lal Sharma (BJP, Jammu North)

• Raman Bhalla (Congress, RS Pura - Jammu South)

• Jugal🗹 Kishore Sharma (In🧸dependent - Shri Mata Vaishno Devi)

• Pawan Khajuria (Independent, Udhampur East)

• Usman Majid (Bandipora)

• Nazir Ahmad Khan (Gurez)

• Taj Mohiuddin (Uri)

Pollsters projected on Saturday that the Cong𝓡ress-ꦉNational Conference alliance would sweep the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections.

The halfway mark of the 90-seat assembly is 24 and pollsters including India Today-CVoter, People💟's Pulse, Republic-Gulistan and Dainik Bhaskar predicted that the BJP might secure 27-30 seats wher💜eas the alliance might be able to win an average of 40-50 seats.

PDP may bag around 5-10 seats, while other parties will gꦰet to around 101-2 seats in the Union Territory.

Jammu and K൲ashmir is set to get its first elected government following the abrogation of Article 370 five years ago, a move by the central government that turned J&K from a state to a union territory, stripping it off its special status.

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The ꦗcounting of votes for the J&K elections is set to begin at 8 am.