Jammu and Kashmir Election Results: BJP J&K President Ravinder Raina Leads In Nowshera

In the Nowshera assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir, BJP's Ravinder Raina, a potential CM candidate, is leading. The constituency had a 73.05% voter turnout.

J&K BJP chief Ravinder Raina was leading in the early trends of vote counting.

Source : PTI

Nowshera election results: Ravinder Raina, the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Jammu and Kashmir unit, is leading from the Nowshera seat. Ravinder Raina, one of the favourites for the Chief Minister's post in J&K, went up against the National  Conference's Surinder Chaudhary and the PDP's Haq Nawaz.

The Nowshera constituency in Rajouri district polled 73.05% votes.

Early trends of counting in Jammu and Kashmir showed Jammu and Kashmir headed towards a hung assembly as neither the PDP, nor the BJP, nor the Congress-NC alliance looked to be able to secure a majority.

The Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections were held in three phases on September 18, 25, and October 1. The Union Territory has an electoral roll of  88,66,704 voters, of whom 63.88% turned out to cast their ballots. The last time elections were held in Jammu and Kashmir in 2014 and recorded a 58.58% turnout in the Lok Sabha elections.

The elections for the 90-member Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly took place in three phases on September 18, September 25, and October 1, achieving a voter turnout of 63.88%. This represents an increase from the 58.58% turnout during the recent Lok Sabha elections, although it falls short of the 65.52% recorded in the 2014 assembly elections.

Counting of the votes commenced at 8 AM and is expected to conclude by 6 PM, with heightened security measures in place. A three-tier security system has been established at all 20 counting centres throughout Jammu and Kashmir to ensure a smooth counting process in this sensitive region, which has a history of political and social unrest.