Ladakh Lok Sabha elections results: Independent candidate Mohmad Haneefa won in the Ladakh Lok Sabha constituency over his Congress and BJP rivals, according to Election Commission. Haneefa has got 65,259 votes, followed by Congress' Tsering Namgyal (37,397 votes) and BJP's Tashi Gyalson (31,956 votes). She won with a margin of 27,862 votes.
The BJP won the seat in the 2014 general elections and retained it in 2019. The Congress has won the seat the maximum number of times — six. Haneefa, a former National Conference leader, quit the party along with its entire Kargil unit to contest as an Independent, after the Congress fielded Namgyal as the INDIA bloc candidate.
He was the lone candidate from the Shia Muslim-dominated Kargil region.This was the first major electoral battle in the region after it was carved out of Jammu and Kashmir and granted Union territory status in 2019.
