First Phase Polling

The voting for 90 seats in Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls, the first in almost a decade, took place in three phases - September 18, September 25 and October 1. While voting for 90 seats in Haryana state polls is underway.

Voting for the second phase of the 2024 Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections - the first major election in J&K in a decade - began today.

The voter turnout in the first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections failed to match the voter turnout in the 2014 election when it was still a state and not a Union Territory.

This is the first assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019.

With the stage set for the first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly scheduled for September 18, the fate of 219 candidates will be determined by over 23.27 lakh voters.

Jammu and Kashmir voted for the first time in 10 years today, with ballots being cast in 24 of 90 constituencies as part of phase one of polling.

After its seat-sharing arrangement with the Congress was finalised, National Conference (NC) Monday issued its first list of 18 candidates for the first phase of the three-phased assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.

The election for Jammu and Kashmir Assembly's 90 seats - pending since 2014 with the former state under Governor's Rule since 2018 - will be held on September 18, September 25, and October 1, with results on October 4.

Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla is set to break all records as people turned out in droves to vote in the Lok Sabha election -- the first since the scrapping of the Article 370 that gave the erstwhile state its special status.

As 49 seats across six states and two Union Territories vote today in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha election, three groups of villagers -- two in Uttar Pradesh and one in Jharkhand -- have stayed away from the polling booth

A day after the Trinamool Congress wrote to the Chief Election Commissioner demanding that the number of voters in the first two phases be made public, party leader Derek O'Brien has questioned the neutrality of the poll panel.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday congratulated the Election Commission for conducting the first two phases of Lok Sabha polls with hardly any violence and asked the people to come out in large numbers to vote.

As many as 65 of 243 candidates remained in the fray for the first phase of assembly elections in Odisha have criminal cases pending against them, according to a report of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).

Four out of five times the BJP has formed governments, it has been following an increased polling percentage.

Women constituted only eight per cent of the total 2,823 candidates in the first two phases of the Lok Sabha elections, with political activists saying it reflects a deeper issue of gender bias and that talk of women's empowerment rings hollow.

The voting for 90 seats in Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls, the first in almost a decade, took place in three phases - September 18, September 25 and October 1. While voting for 90 seats in Haryana state polls is underway.

Voting for the second phase of the 2024 Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections - the first major election in J&K in a decade - began today.

The voter turnout in the first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections failed to match the voter turnout in the 2014 election when it was still a state and not a Union Territory.

This is the first assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019.

With the stage set for the first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly scheduled for September 18, the fate of 219 candidates will be determined by over 23.27 lakh voters.

Jammu and Kashmir voted for the first time in 10 years today, with ballots being cast in 24 of 90 constituencies as part of phase one of polling.

After its seat-sharing arrangement with the Congress was finalised, National Conference (NC) Monday issued its first list of 18 candidates for the first phase of the three-phased assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.

The election for Jammu and Kashmir Assembly's 90 seats - pending since 2014 with the former state under Governor's Rule since 2018 - will be held on September 18, September 25, and October 1, with results on October 4.

Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla is set to break all records as people turned out in droves to vote in the Lok Sabha election -- the first since the scrapping of the Article 370 that gave the erstwhile state its special status.

As 49 seats across six states and two Union Territories vote today in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha election, three groups of villagers -- two in Uttar Pradesh and one in Jharkhand -- have stayed away from the polling booth

A day after the Trinamool Congress wrote to the Chief Election Commissioner demanding that the number of voters in the first two phases be made public, party leader Derek O'Brien has questioned the neutrality of the poll panel.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday congratulated the Election Commission for conducting the first two phases of Lok Sabha polls with hardly any violence and asked the people to come out in large numbers to vote.

As many as 65 of 243 candidates remained in the fray for the first phase of assembly elections in Odisha have criminal cases pending against them, according to a report of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).

Four out of five times the BJP has formed governments, it has been following an increased polling percentage.

Women constituted only eight per cent of the total 2,823 candidates in the first two phases of the Lok Sabha elections, with political activists saying it reflects a deeper issue of gender bias and that talk of women's empowerment rings hollow.