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:

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.