Assembly Elections Schedule 2024: Dates For Polling And Results In Jammu-Kashmir & Haryana Out, Check Here

Assembly Elections 2024: The ECI has announced three-phase Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir from September 18 to October 1. Haryana Assembly elections will also be held on October 1.

Assembly Elections 2024 Schedule: The Election Commission has announced that Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir will be held in three phases starting from September 18, marking the first such elections in the union territory since the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019. This will pave the way for the people of Jammu and Kashmir to elect a new government after nearly a decade.

Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, along with Election Commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, made the announcement during a press conference. The three-phase election in the 90-member Jammu and Kashmir Assembly will take place on September 18, September 25, and October 1.

Jammu and Kashmir Election Schedule 2024
Poll Events	Phase-I	Phase-II	Phase-III
Date of Issue of Gazette Notification	August 20	August 29	September 5
Nomination deadline	August 27	September 5	September 12
Nomination Scrutiny	August 28	September 6	September 13
Last date to withdraw nominations	August 30	September 9	September 17
Date of Voting	September 18	September 25	October 1
Date of Counting and Results Announcement	October 4, 2024

CEC Kumar also disclosed that the elections for the Haryana Assembly, which also has 90 seats, will be held on October 1, with the results for both states to be declared on October 4. He noted that Assembly elections in Maharashtra, which were held alongside Haryana in 2019, will be announced at a later date due to security considerations in Jammu and Kashmir.

Haryana Election Schedule 2024
Poll Events	Phase-I
Date of Issue of Gazette Notification	Sep-05
Nomination deadline	Sep-12
Nomination Scrutiny	Sep-13
Last date to withdraw nominations	Sep-16
Date of Voting	Oct-01
Date of Counting and Results Announcement	October 4, 2024

In the first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir polls, 24 seats will be contested, followed by 26 seats in the second phase and 40 seats in the third phase. 

CEC Rajiv Kumar further explained that this year and early next year, four elections are due. Since Jammu and Kashmir were not included in the 2019-20 election cycle, the Commission decided to group the elections in Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana together. Besides these two states, elections are also due in Maharashtra, Jharkhand, and Delhi.

Jammu-Kashmir Assembly Election

Jammu and Kashmir is all set to witness its first assembly elections in over a decade. The last Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir were conducted in November-December 2014 in five phases.

Jammu and Kashmir have been under central government rule for over six years, following the abrogation of Article 370. The region has seen heightened anticipation for the restoration of its legislative assembly.

This announcement by the Election Commission comes months after the Supreme Court upheld the Centre's decision to revoke Jammu and Kashmir's special status and ordered that Assembly elections be conducted by September 30.

 The J&K legislative assembly was dissolved in 2018, and subsequent developments, including the bifurcation of the state into Union territories in 2019 and a delimitation exercise completed in 2022, have delayed the electoral process.

The Supreme Court had earlier ordered the Election Commission to complete the election process in Jammu and Kashmir by September 30, 2024. The Election Commission recently conducted visits to Jammu, Kashmir, and Haryana to assess poll preparedness. However, a visit to Maharashtra is still pending.