The male turnout was 63.75 per cent while that of female was 58.96 per cent; the turnout of the third gender was 40 per cent.

Jammu and Kashmir is holding an Assembly election, its first as a Union Territory. In Phase 1 today, 24 constituencies go to polls. In Bijbehara, the family turf of the Muftis, PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter is in the fray.

This is the first assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370. The Modi government had abrogated Article 370 on August 5, 2019.

Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024 Live: 50.65% voter turnout till 3 pm has been recorded in Jammu and Kashmir on 18 September, with the highest turnout recorded in Inderwal at 72.20 per cent and the lowest in Pulwama at 36.90 per cent.

The Inderwal Assembly constituency recorded a turnout of 82.16 percent, the highest in the first phase followed by Padder-Nagseni at 80.67 percent.

The voter turnout in the first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections failed to match the voter turnout in the 2014 election when it was still a state and not a Union Territory.

In the first phase of the three-phase polls, seven districts of Jammu and Kashmir, located on either side of Pir Panjal mountain range, are voting to choose their representatives

Chief Electoral Officer PK Pole announced that this marks the highest voter turnout in the last seven Lok Sabha and assembly elections in the region.

Voters queued outside polling stations in India's Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday to vote in the first provincial election being held in a decade in the Himalayan region that has grappled with years of militant violence.

India’s troubled region of Jammu and Kashmir saw a brisk turnout amid tight security as voters cast their ballots on Wednesday in the first regional legislative elections in a decade. The region, which has seen years of separatist violence and is at the centre of a dispute between India and Pakistan,