Jammu and Kashmir Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 Highlights: Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba lose, BJP wins 2 seats

Both the former Chief Minister contesting Lok Sabha elections namely Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti lost Baramulla and Anantnag-Rajouri respectively. PDP chief lost to NC candidate Mian Altaf Ahmad.

The results of five Lok Sabha seats of Jammu and Kashmir have been declared with National Conference winning two seats of Anantnag-Rajouri and Srinagar. The BJP has clinched Udhampur and Jammu. Meanwhile, an Independent candidate Engineer Rashid defeated Omar Abdullah to win Baramulla.

Independent candidate Engineer Rashid clinched the Baramulla Lok Sabha seat by 2,04,142 votes. Getting 4,72,481 votes, he defeated NC leader and former J-K CM Omar Abdullah who was polled 2,68,339 votes. Sajjad Gani Lone ended up as second runner up with 1,73,239 total votes polled. 

Union Minister and BJP candidate Jitendra Singh registers his third consecutive win in Udhampur Lok Sabha seat with a margin of 1,24,373 votes. He defeated Congress' Chaudhary Lal Singh. Jitendra Singh was polled 5,71,076 votes while Lal Singh got 4,46,703 votes.

National Conference's Mian Altaf Ahmad leading towards victory by 279279 votes against PDP's Mehbooba Mufti. Party workers start celebrating.

Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah called up TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu and congratulated him: TDP sources 

The NDA will form government with Narendra Modi as prime minister for a third term, Jammu and Kashmir BJP president Ravinder Raina said

Mian Altaf Ahmad of Jammu & Kashmir National Conference leads by more than 274944 votes from Anantnag-Rajouri

BJP's Jugal Kishore leads in Jammu

"I think it’s time to accept the inevitable. Congratulations to Engineer Rashid for his victory in North Kashmir. I don’t believe his victory will hasten his release from prison nor will the people of North Kashmir get the representation they have a right to but the voters have spoken and in a democracy that’s all that matters."

JKNC vice-president and Baramulla Lok Sabha candidate Omar Abdullah trailing from the seat. 

Independent candidate Abdul Rashid Sheikh leading from this seat with a margin of 88,724 votes

Independent candidate Mohamad Haneefa leads in Ladakh

BJP leader and Union minister Dr Jitendra Singh leads in Udhampur. 

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Jugal Kishore Sharma leads in Jammu. 

Independent candidate Abdul Rashid Sheikh leads in Baramulla. Omar Abdullah of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) and Sajad Gani Lone of the Jammu and Kashmir People Conference (JKPC) are trailing behind. 

Mehbooba Mufti of the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (JKPDP) is trailing behind. 

Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) candidate Mian Altaf Ahmad leads in Anantnag-Rajouri. 

Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi from Jammu & Kashmir National Conference leads 

Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference's Sajjad Lone from Baramullah leads 

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti trails in Ananthnag 

J&K Apni Party candidate from Anantnag-Rajouri, Zafar Iqbal Manhas says "Accoding to me, everything was over on 25th May, when people went to cast their votes. Whatever has to happen will happen today...During elections, I was in stress but now I have left everything on people and I will accept their mandate..."

Counting of votes shortly

Three-tier security has been activated in and around the counting centres in Jammu and Udhampur Lok Sabha constituencies. The counting of over 23.94 lakh votes in these constituencies will determine the fate of 34 candidates, including senior BJP leader and Union Minister Jitendra Singh, current Jammu MP Jugal Kishore Sharma and former ministers Choudhary Lal Singh and Raman Bhalla of the Congress.

Kashmir valley has witnessed record turnout in these Lok Sabha polls with more than 50 per cent of the electorate exercising their franchise.

In the prestigious Srinagar Lok Sabha seat, both National Conference and the PDP have fielded young faces in Aga Roohullah and Waheed Para respectively.

While Mufti is up against prominent Gujjar and National Conference leader Mian Altaf Ahmad in Anantnag-Rajouri seat, Abdullah, Lone and Rashid are locked in a virtual triangular contest for the Baramulla Lok Sabha seat.

There are 66 candidates in the fray for the three Lok Sabha seats of Kashmir valley. Among the key candidates for the three seats are president of PDP Mehbooba Mufti, vice president of National Conference Omar Abdullah, separatist turned mainstream politician Sajad Gani Lone and former MLA Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid, who is currently lodged in Tihar jail in a UAPA case.

Polls for the five parliamentary constituencies in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir were held in as many phases — April 19, April 26, May 13, May 20 and May 25.