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Jammu and Kashmir election: How parties fared on vote share?
The winning National Conference-Congress alliance secured over 35% of the votes.
The National Conference-Congress alliance will form the government in Jammu and Kashmir, as the INDIA bloc partners have won 49 seats in the 90-member Jammu and Kashmir assembly, the voting for which was held on September 18, 25, and October 1.
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The counting of votes for the assembly election began on Tuesday morning. With 42 seats, National Conference became the single-largest party, while the Congress got six seats. The BJP, with 29 wins, was the second-largest party, followed by independents (7), PDP (3); also, one seat each went to People Conference, CPI(M) and the AAP.
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In terms of vote share, the National Conference secured 23.43% votes, according to the Election Commission, while the BJP got 25.64% votes. The vote share of the Congress stood at 11.97%, and PDP (8.87%), BSP (0.96%), CPI(M) (0.59%), among others.
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Meanwhile, as many as 1.48% of the electors chose the NOTA (None Of The Above) option.
What happened in 2014?
In the previous assembly election here, held in November-December 2014, the PDP emerged as the single-largest party with 28 seats (22.67% votes), followed by the BJP (25; 22.98%). From the National Conference (20.77% votes), as many as 13 candidates were victorious, and five candidates won from the Congress (18.01% votes).
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Also, the current assembly election was the region's first since the BJP-led central government revoked Article 370, that gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, in August 2019. In October, the then state became a Union territory; Ladakh, a part of Jammu and Kashmir till then, was made a separate Union territory.
