Jammu And Kashmir Assembly Election Results 2019

The elections in Jammu and Kashmir scheduled to be held in 2021 would be the first after the abrogation of Article 370. The Indian Parliament also decided bifurcate Ladakh from J&K and created two Union Territories.


The Legislative Assembly was initially composed of 100 members, later increased to 111 by the then Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir. Of these, 24 seats are designated for the territorial constituencies of the state that came under Pakistani control in 1947.These seats remain officially vacant and are not taken into account for reckoning the total membership of the assembly. Hence the total contestable and filled seats of the assembly remained 87. However after the separation of Ladakh as a UT, the number of seats came down by four and the the J&K assembly would now have 83 seats. The Kashmir valley region has 46 seats, the Jammu region has 37 seats.
In the 2014 elections, the PDP won 28, BJP, 25, NC, 15, Congress, 12, JKPC, 2, CPI (M), 1, PDF, 1 and independents, 3.