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Next Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election


The Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly has been dissolved since November 2018. As of January 2023, no new election has been scheduled. The election is expected to take place in 2023, after the delimitation exercise is completed.[1][2]

Next Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election
← 2014
All 90 seats in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly
46 seats needed for a majority
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Leader Mehbooba Mufti Ravinder Raina
Party Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party BJP
Alliance People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration NDA
Leader since 2016 2018
Leader's seat - -
Last election 22.7%, 28 seats 23.0%, 25 seats
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Leader Farooq Abdullah Ghulam Ahmad Mir
Party Jammu & Kashmir National Conference INC
Alliance People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration United Progressive Alliance
Leader since 1981 2008
Leader's seat -[lower-alpha 1] -
Last election 20.8%, 15 seats 18.0%, 12 seats
Incumbent Chief Minister

President's rule


The next elections would be the first since 2014 and the first since the territory's temporary special status was revoked and its statehood withdrawn in 2019.[3]

BackgroundEdit

Following the 2014 elections, the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formed a coalition government. In 2018 the BJP pulled out and withdrew its support from the government. Governor's rule was subsequently applied. In 2019 Article 370 of the Constitution of India, which gave temporary special status to Jammu and Kashmir, was abrogated. The state was split into two union territories, Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.

DelimitationEdit

In March 2020, a three-member Delimitation Commission was formed, chaired by retired Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, for the delimitation of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.[4] The commission published its interim report in February 2022.[5]

On 5 May 2022, the Foreign Office of Pakistan handed over a demarche to the Indian Charge d’Affaires. It conveyed the Government of Pakistan’s categorical rejection of the ‘Delimitation Commission’ report, which it said "was aimed at disenfranchising and disempowering the Muslim majority population" of Jammu and Kashmir.[6]

Parties and alliancesEdit

  People's Alliance for Gupkar DeclarationEdit

No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Photo Seats Contested Male Candidates Female Candidates
1. Jammu and Kashmir National Conference     Farooq Abdullah   TBD
2. Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party     Mehbooba Mufti
 
 TBD
3. Communist Party of India (Marxist)     Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami
 
 TBD
4. Jammu & Kashmir People's Movement     Javaid Mustafa Mir   TBD
5. Jammu and Kashmir Awami National Conference     Begum Khalida Shah   TBD

  National Democratic AllianceEdit

No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Photo Seats Contested Male Candidates Female Candidates
1. Bharatiya Janata Party     Ravinder Raina   TBD

  United Progressive AllianceEdit

No. Party Flag Symbol Leader Photo Seats Contested Male Candidates Female Candidates
1. Indian National Congress     Ghulam Ahmad Mir   TBD

OthersEdit

See alsoEdit

NotesEdit

  1. ↑ Farooq Abdullah serves as the MP from Srinagar

ReferencesEdit

  1. ↑ Manhotra, Dinesh (26 September 2021). "BJP hints at assembly elections in J&K in early 2022; starts preparations [details]". www.ibtimes.co.in. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  2. ↑ "Assembly elections in J&K unlikely to be held for one-and-half year". Daily Excelsior. 4 March 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ↑ "State Assembly Elections slated to happen in 2022". ww.oneindia.com. 9 December 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  4. ↑ "Delimitation of Constituencies in Jammu-Kashmir, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Nagaland - Notification dated 06.03.2020 - Delimitation - Election Commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  5. ↑ "Many seats redrawn in J&K delimitation draft". The Hindu. 5 February 2022. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  6. ↑ "Hindu majority areas get more seats in held Kashmir". Dawn. 6 May 2022.
  7. ↑ "Sajad Lone's Peoples Conference pulls out of Gupkar alliance". The Hindu. 19 January 2021. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
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