Budgam Assembly Election Results 2024: Omar Abdullah won the Budgam seat by defeating JKPDP’s Aga Muntazir. He was leading from both Budgam and Ganderbal. BJP was leading in Jammu and Kashmir with 10 leads in early trends.Counting of votes for the Assembly Elections in Jammu & Kashmir started at 8 am amid tight security. The fate of candidates on 90 Vidhan Sabha seats across 90 seats across all 20 districts in J&K is being decided today.
As the counting was underway, JKNC Vice President and party's candidate from Ganderbal & Budgam, Omar Abdullah said, " We have the hope that we will win. The decision made by the voters of J&K, we will get to know by today afternoon. There should be transparency...if people's mandate is against BJP, they shouldn't pull off any tricks...we did alliance so we can win and we are hoping to win..."
Budgam is one of the Assembly constituencies in Jammu & Kashmir. The JKN and JKPDP are the main parties in the constituency. In the 2014 Assembly Elections, Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi from JKN won the seat with a margin of 2,787 votes. Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi was polled 30,090 votes with a vote share of 43.76 % and defeated Gh Mohi-ud-din Bhat (muntazir) from JKPDP who got 27,303 votes (39.71 %). Likewise, in the 2008 Assembly Elections, Aga Syed Ruhullah from JKN won the seat and was polled 19,652 votes with a vote share of 40.15%. JKPDP Assembly Elections 2024 Results -JKPDP candidate Mohammad Kamal Malik got 9,692 votes (19.80 %) and was the runner-up.Aga Syed Ruhullah defeated Mohammad Kamal Malik by a margin of 9,960 votes.
Budgam Assembly Election Result 2024: Candidates
Political observers maintain that the main contest is going to be between the National Conference (NC) Vice President Omar Abdullah and Aga Syed Muntazir the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate and son of Hurriyat leader Aga Syed Hassan. Both Omar and Muntazir are locked in a fierce battle in this politically crucial constituency.
Budgam Assembly Election 2024 Election Phase
The Budgam constituency in Jammu and Kashmir went to polls in the Phase 2
Budgam Assembly Election 2024: Result Date
The counting and announcement of results for the Budgam Assembly Constituency Election 2024 will be done on October 8, 2024
