Eight constituencies in the Jammu region and 16 from the Kashmir Valley voted on the first phase of assembly elections. Two more rounds of voting remain.

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.

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.

As many as 219 candidates are competing in the first phase of voting today. As many as 23,27,580 electors are eligible to vote, according to the poll panel, in the first phase of voting today.

Jammu and Kashmir is India's only Muslim-majority territory and has been at the centre of a dispute with neighbouring Pakistan since 1947. India and Pakistan both claim Kashmir in

India’s troubled region of Jammu and Kashmir saw a brisk turnout amid tight security as voters cast their ballots on Wednesday in the first regional legislative elections in a decade. The region, which has seen years of separatist violence and is at the centre of a dispute between India and Pakistan,

Voting got underway in the 24 seats across seven districts of Jammu and Kashmir at 7 AM on Wednesday. For the first time in the last 10 years, voters in the state are casting their votes in the assembly elections under a heavy security blanket in the Union Territory to ensure the peaceful completion of the first phase of polling.