Jammu and Kashmir’s first Assembly polls were held in March-June 1957, for 75 seats, under its own Constitution. The National conference won all the 75 seats and Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad was appointed as the Prime Minister.

In August 2019, the Modi government railroaded a law called the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act through India’s Parliament. The law revoked the status of Jammu and Kashmir as a constituent state of the Indian union and dismembered it into two UTs: Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, the first having 98 percent of the erstwhile state’s population.

According to the latest electoral rolls, 25,78,099 voters are eligible to cast their ballots in this phase, comprising 13,12,730 male voters, 12,65,316 female voters, and 53 third-gender voters.

Elections in Jammu and Kashmir are being held in three phases. Voting for 24 seats in the first phase was held on September 18 while 26 seats will go to polls Wednesday in the sec

Hazratbal will see a direct battle between PDP's Asiya Naqash and NC's Salman Sagar, with Naqash aiming to reclaim her 2014 victory.

Among the 239 candidates contesting across 26 constituencies are former chief minister Omar Abdullah, Bharatiya Janata Party's state president Ravinder Raina and Apni Party chief Altaf Bukhari.

More than 2.5 million people will be eligible to cast their franchise across 26 constituencies – 11 in Jammu and 15 in Kashmir – on October 25.

This assembly election marks the first in Jammu and Kashmir in ten years, with the first phase held peacefully on 18. The last assembly election in the region, which was then a state, took place in 2014.

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