Jammu And Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024 Phase 1: Voting Date, Full List Of Constituencies Going To Polls; BJP, Congress Key Candidates, Other Details

J&K Vidhan Sabha Chunav 2024: The voting for 24 seats going to the polls in the Phase-I will be held on September 18. As many as 219 candidates are in the poll fray.

J&K Election 2024: Jammu and Kashmir are going to the assembly polls almost a decade after the last election was held. The erstwhile state was converted into the Union Territory following the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019.

This is the first assembly election since the abrogation of the contentious constitutional provision. The Election Commission of India has announced that the polling for 90 assembly seats will be held in three phases - September 18, September 25 and October 8 while the counting of votes will take place on October 4.

Phase 1 Voting Date, Time

The voting for the first phase of the assembly polls will take place on September 18 and the voting time is likely to be between 8am to 5pm in most of the seats. 

J&K Polls: Full List Of Phase-1 Constituencies, Candidates

Of the 90 seats, 24 constituencies will go to the polls in phase 1. These 24 seats include some key seats like Pulwama, Shopian, Kulgam, Anantnag, Pahalgam and Ramban. Candidates from the BJP, National Conference, Congress, PDP and other parties are in the fray.

The BJP is not contesting on the eight seats going to the polls in the phase 1 while the PDP is also not contesting on some seats. While the National Conference and the Congress have formed an alliance, they will have a friendly fight on a total of five seats out of the 90.

Below is the full list of constituencies:

Assembly Seats	BJP	CONGRESS/CPIM	PDP	JKNC
1. Pampore	Er. Syed Showkat Gayoor Andrabi		Zakhoor Ahmad Mir	Hasnain Massodi
2. Tral	No Candidate	Surinder Singh Channi	Rafiq Ahmad Ik
3. Pulwama	No Candidate		Waheed-ur Rehman Parra	Mohammad Khalil Bandh
4. Rajpora	Arshid Bhat		Syed Bashir Ahmed	Syed Bashir Ahmed
5. Zainapora	No Candidate		Ghulam Mohiuddin Wani	Showkat Ahmad Ganai
6. Shopian	Jawed Ahmad Qadri		Yawar Shafi Shafi	Sheikh Mohammad Rafi
7. D.H. Pora	No Candidate	Sakina Ittoo	Gulzar Ahmad Dar
8. Kulgam	No Candidate	Yousuf Tarigami - CPIM	Mohd Amin Dar
9. Devsar	No Candidate	Amanullah Mantoo	Sartaj Ahmad Madani
10. Dooru	No Candidate	Ghulam Ahmad Mir	Mohd Ashraf Malik
11. Kokernag (ST)	Ch. Roshan Hussain Gujjar		Haroon Rashid Khata	Zafar Ali Khatana
12. Anantnag West	Mohd Rafiq Wani
13. Anantnag	Adv. Syed Wazahat	Peerzada Mohd Syed	Mehboob Beg
14. Srigufwara - Bijbehara	Sofi Yousuf		Iltija Mufti	Bashir Ahmad Veeri
15. Shangus - Anantnag East	Veer Saraf		Abdul Rehman Veeri	Reyaz Ahmad Khan
16. Pahalgam	No Candidates		Shabir Ahmad Sediqui	Altaf Ahmad Kaloo
17. Inderwal	Tariq Keen	Sheikh Zafarullah	Hussain Sheikh
18. Kishtwar	Shagun Parihar		Firdous Ahmad Tak	Sajad Kichloo
19. Padder - Nagseni	Sunil Sharma		Sandesh Kumar	Pooja Thakur
20. Bhadarwah	Daleep Singh Parihar	Nadeem Sharief	No candidate	Mehboob Iqbal
21. Doda	Gajay Singh Rana	Sheikh Riyaz	Mansoor Ahmed Batt	Khalid Najeeb Soharwardy
22. Doda West	Shakti Raj Parihar	Pradeep Kumar Bhagat
23. Ramban	Rakesh Thakur			Arjun Singh Raju
24. Banihal	Salim Bhat	Vikar Rasool Wani	Imtiaz Ahmed Shan	Sajad Shaheen

There are a total of 219 candidates in fray for the phase 1 of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls. The wealthiest candidate in the first phase is also from PDP: Abdul Gaffar Sofi, who is contesting from Anantnag West. In his election affidavit, Sofi reported assets exceeding Rs 66 crore. Following him is PDP's Imtiaz Ahmed Shan, with assets amounting to over Rs 34 crore.