Jammu And Kashmir Assembly Election 2024 Live Updates | 11.60 Percent Voting Till 9 AM

A voter turnout of 11.60 percent was witnessed till 9 AM on Tuesday in the third and final phase of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024.

Here is the constituency-wise turnout till 9 AM as per the Election Commission of India:

01.Akhnoor (SC): 14.42 %

02.Bahu: 10.30 %

03.Bandipora: 10.45 %

04.Bani:14.38 %

05.Baramulla:07.38 %

06.Basohli:11.67 %

07.Billawar: 13.90 %

08.Bishnah (SC):12.38%

09.Chenani:14.99%

10.Chhamb:13.61%

11.Gulmarg:10.60%

12.Gurez (ST):13.18%

13.Handwara:13.46%

14.Hiranagar:13.49%

15.Jammu east:08.26%

16.Jammu north:09.69%

17.Jammu west:09.08%

18.Jasrota:13.90%

19.Karnah:11.00%

20.Kathua (SC):11.65%

21.Kupwara:10.00%

22.Langate:11.06%

23.Lolab:10.77%

24.Marh (SC):13.94%

25.Nagrota:12.88%

26.Pattan:8.66%

27.RS Pura - Jammu south:11.92%

28.Rafiabad:11.49%

29.Ramgarh (SC):14.22%

30.Ramnagar (SC):15.27%

31.Samba:12.41%

32.Sonawari:12.49%

33.Sopore:06.71%

34.Suchetgarh (SC):10.45%

35.Trehgam:11.12%

36.Udhampur east:13.96%

37.Udhampur west:12.89%

38.Uri:08.57%

39.Vijaypur:13.32%

40.Wagoora-Kreeri:09.50%

As voting for the third phase of the Jammu and Kashmir elections commences, I urge the people in these 40 Assembly seats to exercise their Democratic rights in large numbers. This is the final chance to teach a lesson to those who snatched statehood from the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Remember, that a single vote can change your destiny and usher in a brighter future, which secures your Constitutional rights. A single vote is valuable enough to ensure better employment opportunities for the young, take on the corrupt, safeguard your land rights and ensure progress and prosperity. We welcome the first time voters, for the future course for Jammu and Kashmir shall be decided by their participation. Once again, I request you to join the voting queue. Jai Hind

As Jammu and Kashmir votes for the first time sans Article 370, which gave a special status to the erstwhile state, senior BJP leader and union minister Dr Jitendra Singh said that the Article 370 was misused by family-based parties in the region for their own political gains.

"This is the true mainstreaming of democracy in J&K as voters are coming out to vote in large numbers. This time, almost after around 50 years, like the other states, an assembly election is being conducted for 5 years, earlier the term used to be 6 years... Article 370 used to be misused by family-based parties... Grass-root democracy was restored in last 10 years," Singh said while speaking to the media in Jammu.

Amid the ongoing voting in the third and final phase of Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections 2024, members of the Valmiki community in Jammu who were deprived from voting in the elections owing to Article 370, exercised their franchise for the first time in Jammu.

"I am very happy... I am 50 but I am casting vote for the first time. Things are changing now," a Valmiki voter said.

"It feels like a caged bird has been set free. Our community had no voting rights for the last 70 years. Valmiki community was kept away from voting process," another voter said.

The Valmiki community, which was displaced from 1957 from Punjab to Jammu and Kashmir, could not vote in the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state due to Article 370, which was abrogated by the BJP government at the Centre on August 5, 2019.

As voting got underway for the third and final phase of Jammu and Kashmir Elections 2024, Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) President Sheikh Abdul Rashid aka Engineer Rashid's parents cast their votes at Mawer polling station in Langate assembly constituency. Rashid has fielded his brother Sheikh Khursheed.

The seat is witnessing a multi-cornered contest among AIP's Khursheed, People's Conference candidate Irfan Ganaie, and NC-Congress alliance candidate Irshad Ganaie.

As voting got underway for the third and final phase of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024, Kashmiri migrant Pandits displaced from their homeland in Kashmir after eruption of armed militancy in the 1990s, are casting their vote at a specially set up polling station in Jammu.

The Assistant Returning Officer Jammu has made special transporation arrangements to ferry the Kashmiri migrants to ferry them to the polling stations.

As the third and final phase of voting for Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Election 2024 got underway, Deputy Commissioner Baramulla, Minga Sherpa cast his vote at a polling station here and took selfie at the selfie point set up by the district administration to flaunt his inked finger.

The DC Baramulla was seen disembarking from his official car and stepping inside a polling station to exercise his franchise.

BJP candidate from Jammu North constituency Sham Lal Sharma cast his vote at a polling booth in Purkhoo Government School, Jammu. BJP candidate from Jammu North constituency Sham Lal Sharma says "This is the biggest festival of democracy. People in J&K have been waiting for Assembly elections for a long time. The long queues outside polling stations are proof that people want change in J&K. I am confident that the people in 24 seats in the Jammu province are going to break the voting records of the last several years...I request the voters to chose the best candidates..."

Congress candidate from Jammu East Yogesh Sawhney says, "Secularism will win and people will take revenge through their votes for the atrocities committed by the BJP in the last 10 years. Congress did not say that we will bring Article 370, but our demand will be that the youth of Jammu should get their jobs and their land should also be safe. Statehood should be restored. My appeal to the people is that we are fighting for the truth and I request people to go and vote and not sit at home..."

As Jammu and Kashmir proceeds with the final phase of its Assembly elections on Tuesday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah emphasised that the Union Territory requires a government capable of making decisive actions for the security, peace, and stability of the region. "Jammu and Kashmir needs a visionary government that can also make strong decisions for the security, peace, and stability of the region," Shah stated in a post on X.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday urged voters to come forward and exercise their franchise in the third and final phase of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections to make the festival of democracy a success. The polling covers 40 seats across seven districts, including the winter capital Jammu.

People queue up outside a polling station in Jammu to vote in the third and final phase of the Assembly elections today. Eligible voters in 40 constituencies across 7 districts of the UT are exercising their franchise today.

A voter turnout of 11.60 percent was witnessed till 9 AM on Tuesday in the third and final phase of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024.

Here is the constituency-wise turnout till 9 AM as per the Election Commission of India:

01.Akhnoor (SC): 14.42 %

02.Bahu: 10.30 %

03.Bandipora: 10.45 %

04.Bani:14.38 %

05.Baramulla:07.38 %

06.Basohli:11.67 %

07.Billawar: 13.90 %

08.Bishnah (SC):12.38%

09.Chenani:14.99%

10.Chhamb:13.61%

11.Gulmarg:10.60%

12.Gurez (ST):13.18%

13.Handwara:13.46%

14.Hiranagar:13.49%

15.Jammu east:08.26%

16.Jammu north:09.69%

17.Jammu west:09.08%

18.Jasrota:13.90%

19.Karnah:11.00%

20.Kathua (SC):11.65%

21.Kupwara:10.00%

22.Langate:11.06%

23.Lolab:10.77%

24.Marh (SC):13.94%

25.Nagrota:12.88%

26.Pattan:8.66%

27.RS Pura - Jammu south:11.92%

28.Rafiabad:11.49%

29.Ramgarh (SC):14.22%

30.Ramnagar (SC):15.27%

31.Samba:12.41%

32.Sonawari:12.49%

33.Sopore:06.71%

34.Suchetgarh (SC):10.45%

35.Trehgam:11.12%

36.Udhampur east:13.96%

37.Udhampur west:12.89%

38.Uri:08.57%

39.Vijaypur:13.32%

40.Wagoora-Kreeri:09.50%

As voting for the third phase of the Jammu and Kashmir elections commences, I urge the people in these 40 Assembly seats to exercise their Democratic rights in large numbers. This is the final chance to teach a lesson to those who snatched statehood from the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Remember, that a single vote can change your destiny and usher in a brighter future, which secures your Constitutional rights. A single vote is valuable enough to ensure better employment opportunities for the young, take on the corrupt, safeguard your land rights and ensure progress and prosperity. We welcome the first time voters, for the future course for Jammu and Kashmir shall be decided by their participation. Once again, I request you to join the voting queue. Jai Hind

As Jammu and Kashmir votes for the first time sans Article 370, which gave a special status to the erstwhile state, senior BJP leader and union minister Dr Jitendra Singh said that the Article 370 was misused by family-based parties in the region for their own political gains.

"This is the true mainstreaming of democracy in J&K as voters are coming out to vote in large numbers. This time, almost after around 50 years, like the other states, an assembly election is being conducted for 5 years, earlier the term used to be 6 years... Article 370 used to be misused by family-based parties... Grass-root democracy was restored in last 10 years," Singh said while speaking to the media in Jammu.

Amid the ongoing voting in the third and final phase of Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections 2024, members of the Valmiki community in Jammu who were deprived from voting in the elections owing to Article 370, exercised their franchise for the first time in Jammu.

"I am very happy... I am 50 but I am casting vote for the first time. Things are changing now," a Valmiki voter said.

"It feels like a caged bird has been set free. Our community had no voting rights for the last 70 years. Valmiki community was kept away from voting process," another voter said.

The Valmiki community, which was displaced from 1957 from Punjab to Jammu and Kashmir, could not vote in the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state due to Article 370, which was abrogated by the BJP government at the Centre on August 5, 2019.

As voting got underway for the third and final phase of Jammu and Kashmir Elections 2024, Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) President Sheikh Abdul Rashid aka Engineer Rashid's parents cast their votes at Mawer polling station in Langate assembly constituency. Rashid has fielded his brother Sheikh Khursheed.

The seat is witnessing a multi-cornered contest among AIP's Khursheed, People's Conference candidate Irfan Ganaie, and NC-Congress alliance candidate Irshad Ganaie.

As voting got underway for the third and final phase of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024, Kashmiri migrant Pandits displaced from their homeland in Kashmir after eruption of armed militancy in the 1990s, are casting their vote at a specially set up polling station in Jammu.

The Assistant Returning Officer Jammu has made special transporation arrangements to ferry the Kashmiri migrants to ferry them to the polling stations.

As the third and final phase of voting for Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Election 2024 got underway, Deputy Commissioner Baramulla, Minga Sherpa cast his vote at a polling station here and took selfie at the selfie point set up by the district administration to flaunt his inked finger.

The DC Baramulla was seen disembarking from his official car and stepping inside a polling station to exercise his franchise.

BJP candidate from Jammu North constituency Sham Lal Sharma cast his vote at a polling booth in Purkhoo Government School, Jammu. BJP candidate from Jammu North constituency Sham Lal Sharma says "This is the biggest festival of democracy. People in J&K have been waiting for Assembly elections for a long time. The long queues outside polling stations are proof that people want change in J&K. I am confident that the people in 24 seats in the Jammu province are going to break the voting records of the last several years...I request the voters to chose the best candidates..."

Congress candidate from Jammu East Yogesh Sawhney says, "Secularism will win and people will take revenge through their votes for the atrocities committed by the BJP in the last 10 years. Congress did not say that we will bring Article 370, but our demand will be that the youth of Jammu should get their jobs and their land should also be safe. Statehood should be restored. My appeal to the people is that we are fighting for the truth and I request people to go and vote and not sit at home..."

As Jammu and Kashmir proceeds with the final phase of its Assembly elections on Tuesday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah emphasised that the Union Territory requires a government capable of making decisive actions for the security, peace, and stability of the region. "Jammu and Kashmir needs a visionary government that can also make strong decisions for the security, peace, and stability of the region," Shah stated in a post on X.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday urged voters to come forward and exercise their franchise in the third and final phase of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections to make the festival of democracy a success. The polling covers 40 seats across seven districts, including the winter capital Jammu.

People queue up outside a polling station in Jammu to vote in the third and final phase of the Assembly elections today. Eligible voters in 40 constituencies across 7 districts of the UT are exercising their franchise today.