Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana election results: BJP, NC+Cong set to claim victory
Updated: Oct 8th, 2024
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The D-Day and H-Hour of Jammu and Kashmir, and Haryana have arrived to decide the fate for both the elections.
Jammu Kashmir Election Results
As the ‘heaven on earth’ is set to make a government after over a decade, the trends till 1 pm depicted NC-Congress-PDP alliance crossing the halfway mark, and having a strong lead on 51 seats.
The Jammu & Kashmir National Conference had 41 seats, the Congress has 6 seats in total, and the Jammu & Kashmir People’s Democratic Party has managed 4 seats till now.
Meanwhile, the BJP has 29 Assembly seats, and other parties-independent candidates constitute of a total of 10 seats.
Haryana Election Results
The BJP is set to reclaim Haryana for the third consecutive term, as an initial neck-and-neck fight has now shown a clear winner as per the trends till 1 pm.
The BJP has 47 seats, the Congress 38, the INLD 1 seat, and others managing 4 seats till now.
The electoral faces, which lead the tide for both the parties - Nayab Singh Saini of the BJP and Bhupinder Hooda of the Congress - were leading with a comfortable margin on their respective seats, Ladwa and Garhi Sampla-Kiloi.
Jammu-Kashmir election dynamics
The NC-Congress fought the Assembly polls in alliance with the NC fielding 52 and Congress 31 candidates.
Former chief minister and NC vice president Omar Abdullah was leading in both Ganderbal and Budgam seats.
However, Iltija Mufti, the PDP candidate and daughter of former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, was trailing.
J&K after fresh delimitation of Assembly constituencies has 90 seats out of which nine are ST and seven SC seats.
The counting of votes for all 90 Assembly seats began at 8 a.m.
The political fate of 873 candidates, including senior leaders of the National Conference (NC), BJP, Congress, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), People’s ConferenceC, Apni Party, CPI(M), Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) and Independent candidates will be decided.
Chief electoral officer P K Pole told reporters that 28 counting centres have been set up across Jammu and Kashmir for counting votes. Postal votes will be counted first.
Lt Governor Manoj Sinha will nominate five members to the Assembly on the Ministry of Home Affairs’ recommendations.
Among these five, two will be women, two Migrant Kashmiri Pandits, one of whom should be a woman, and one representative of the West Pakistan refugees.
Exit Polls have put the NC-Congress alliance in a strong position with the regional party getting the lion’s share of the seats. BJP is expected to slightly improve on its tally of 25 seats which it had won in the 2014 polls while the PDP, which had won 28 seats in the 2014 polls, is predicted to win less than 10 seats this time by the Exit Polls.
This will be the first elected government to be formed in Jammu and Kashmir post abrogation of Article 370.
The just concluded legislative Assembly election recorded a voter turnout of 63.45% which is less than the 65.52% recorded in the 2014 Assembly elections.
The Assembly poll was held in three phases on September 18, September 25 and October 1. In the first phase, 24 seats went to the poll, in the second phase, 26 and in the third phase, 40 seats went to the poll.
Haryana election dynamics
Several exit polls have predicted a Congress victory in Haryana which recorded a voter turnout of 67.90%. However, the BJP has claimed it will return to power for a third consecutive term in Haryana.
The BJP is aiming for the third consecutive term and the principal Opposition Congress is predicting a comeback in Haryana.
The counting of votes for the 90-member Assembly commenced at 93 counting centres in all 22 districts. Two counting centres each have been set up for the Badshahpur, Gurugram and Pataudi Assembly constituencies, while one counting centre each has been established for the remaining 87 Assembly constituencies, said Chief Electoral Officer Pankaj Agarwal.
To monitor the counting process, 90 counting observers also have been appointed by the Election Commission of India.
Agarwal said 30 companies of Central Armed Police Forces have been deployed at all counting centres that have been put under a three-tier security cover. Central security forces have been deployed in the innermost security cover. After that, state-armed police and district police personnel will be deployed in the outermost cover. Around 12,000 police personnel are on duty.
He said adequate checkpoints have been set up within 100 metres of each counting centre. CCTV cameras have been installed where the electronic voting machines (EVMs) are stored to closely monitor all activities.
Unauthorised individuals will be restricted from entering these areas. Additionally, CCTV cameras have been installed at the main entrance and throughout the entire premises of the counting centres to ensure comprehensive monitoring.
He said accurate information on each round of counting will be uploaded in a timely manner.
A total of 67.90% of voting took place in the election on October 5. The highest - 75.36% - was recorded in the Sirsa district and the lowest -- 56.49% -- was recorded in the Faridabad district. Constituency-wise, the highest 80.61% voting was recorded in Ellenabad and the lowest 48.27% voting was in Badkhal.
A majority of exit polls predicted the Congress would wrest power from the BJP in Haryana after remaining in opposition for 10 years. The Congress, which carried a high-decibel campaign under former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, is predicted to win 49-55 seats in the 90-member House.
However, predicting a historic win for the third consecutive term, Chief Minister and BJP candidate from Ladwa Assembly seat, Nayab Singh Saini, said they do not need any alliance as they would form the government on their own.
Besides, two-time Chief Minister Bhupinder Hooda, the front-runner for the chief ministerial post, expressed confidence in the party forming a government in the state with a “thumping majority”.
The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) and the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) are also in the fray. Many Independents, mostly BJP rebels, have made the contest multi-cornered on several seats.
The BJP's vote share in the October 2019 Assembly election was 36.49 per cent when the party could not cross the halfway mark in the 90-member Assembly and stitched a post-poll alliance with the JJP.
The Congress registered over 15% rise in its vote share in 2024 in comparison to the 2019 Parliamentary election vote share.
(Compiled from syndicated feed)
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