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.


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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.