2024 Indian general election in Jammu and Kashmir

The 2024 Indian general election was held in Jammu and Kashmir in 5 phases from 19 April to 20 May 2024 to elect 5 members of the 18th Lok Sabha. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) won 2 seats each, with BJP winning the single largest share of the popular vote at 24.36% and JKNC coming second at 22.30%. One seat was won by an independent candidate.

Election schedule

Poll event	Phase
	I	II	III	IV	V
Notification date	20 March	28 March	12 April	18 April	26 April
Last date for filing nomination	27 March	4 April	19 April	25 April	3 May
Scrutiny of nomination	28 March	5 April	20 April	26 April	4 May
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination	30 March	8 April	22 April	29 April	6 May
Date of poll	19 April	26 April	25 MayTemplate:Efn	13 May	20 May
Date of counting of votes/Result	4 June 2024
No. of constituencies	1	1	1	1	1

Parties and alliances

Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance

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2024 Lok Sabha Election Jammu and Kashmir INDIA Seat Sharing Map

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
Template:Party color cell	Jammu & Kashmir National Conference	File:Flag of Jammu and Kashmir (1936-1953).svg	File:Indian Election Symbol Plough.png	Farooq Abdullah	3
Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress	File:Indian National Congress Flag.svg	File:Hand INC.svg	Raman Bhalla	2
	Total				5

National Democratic Alliance

2024 Lok Sabha NDA Jammu and Kashmir Map

2024 Lok Sabha Election Jammu and Kashmir NDA seat distribution

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
Template:Party color cell	Bharatiya Janata Party	File:BJP flag.svg	File:Lotus flower symbol.svg	Jitendra Singh	2
	Total				2

Others

Recognised parties

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
Template:Party color cell	Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party		File:Indian Election Symbol Ink Pot and Pen.png	Mehbooba Mufti	3
Template:Party color cell	Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party			Harsh Dev Singh	5
Template:Party color cell	Bahujan Samaj Party	File:Elephant Bahujan Samaj Party.svg	File:Indian Election Symbol Elephant.png		2
Template:Party color cell	All India Forward Bloc				2
	Total				12

Unrecognised parties

Party		Symbol	Seats contested
Template:Party color cell	Jammu and Kashmir Nationalist People's Front		3
Template:Party color cell	National Loktantrik Party		3
Template:Party color cell	Democratic Progressive Azad Party	File:Democratic Progressive Azad Party Election Symbol.png	2
Template:Party color cell	Ekam Sanatan Bharat Dal		2
Template:Party color cell	Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party		2
Template:Party color cell	Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference		2
rowspan=2 Template:Party color cell	National Awami United Party		2
Bharat Jodo Party		1
Template:Party color cell	Gana Suraksha Party		1
rowspan=4 Template:Party color cell	Garib Democratic Party		1
Hindustan Shakti Sena		1
National Youth Party		1
Rashtriya Jankranti Party		1
	Total		22

Candidates

Constituency		colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Party color"|
		INDIA						NDA
1	Baramulla	rowspan="3" Template:Party colour cell	JKNC	Omar Abdullah	rowspan="3" Template:Party colour cell	JKPDP	Fayaz Ahmad Mir	DNC
2	Srinagar	JKNC	Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi	JKPDP	Waheed Parra
3	Anantnag–Rajouri	JKNC	Mian Altaf Ahmed Larvi	JKPDP	Mehbooba Mufti
4	Udhampur	rowspan="2" Template:Party colour cell	INC	Chaudhary Lal Singh	DNC			rowspan="2" Template:Party colour cell	BJP	Jitendra Singh
5	Jammu	INC	Raman Bhalla	BJP				Jugal Kishore Sharma

Surveys and polls

Opinion polls

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Exit polls

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Voter turnout

Constituencies in phases

Constituency		Poll date	Turnout	Swing
1	Baramulla	20 May 2024	59.10%	Template:Increase 24.60
2	Srinagar	13 May 2024	38.49%	Template:Increase 24.06
3	Anantnag–Rajouri	25 May 2024	55.40%	New
4	Udhampur	19 April 2024	68.27%	Template:Decrease 2.74
5	Jammu	26 April 2024	72.22%	Template:Decrease 0.28
Total			58.58%	Template:Increase 18.1

Results

Results by alliance or party

Alliance/ Party				Popular vote			Seats
				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
rowspan="4" Template:Party color cell	INDIA	Template:Party color cell	JKNC	1,139,084	22.30	Template:Increase14.09	3	2	Template:Decrease 1
Template:Party color cell		INC	990,182	19.38	Template:Decrease 9.92	2	0	Template:No change
Total		2,129,266	41.68	Template:Increase 4.17	5	2	Template:Decrease 1
Template:Party color cell	JKPDP	433,049	8.48	Template:Increase 4.91	3Template:Efn	0	Template:No change
Template:Party color cell	NDA	Template:Party color cell	BJP	1,244,404	24.36	Template:Decrease 2.01	2	2	Template:No change
Template:Party color cell	Others						31	0	Template:No change
Template:Party color cell	IND						59	1	Template:Increase 1
	NOTA			34,249	0.67	Template:No change
Total					100	-	100	5	-

Results by constituency

Constituency		Turnout	Winner					Runner-up					Margin
			Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Baramulla	59.10%Template:Increase	Abdul Rashid Sheikh	Template:Party name with color	4,72,481	45.70%	Omar Abdullah	Template:Party name with color	2,68,339	25.95%	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:black;"|2,04,142	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:black;"|19.75%
2	Srinagar	38.49%Template:Increase	Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi	Template:Party name with color	3,56,866	52.85%	Waheed Para	Template:Party name with color	1,68,450	24.95%	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|1,88,416	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|27.90%
3	Anantnag–Rajouri	55.40% Template:Increase	Mian Altaf Ahmed Larvi	Template:Party name with color	5,21,836	50.85%	Mehbooba Mufti	Template:Party name with color	2,40,042	23.39%	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|2,81,794	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|27.46%
4	Udhampur	68.27%Template:Decrease	Jitendra Singh	Template:Party name with color	5,71,076	51.28%	Chaudhary Lal Singh	Template:Party name with color	4,46,703	40.11%	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|1,24,373	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|11.17%
5	Jammu	72.22%Template:Decrease	Jugal Kishore Sharma	Template:Party name with color	6,87,588	52.80%	Raman Bhalla	Template:Party name with color	5,52,090	42.40%	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|1,35,498	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|10.40%

Strike-rate

Strike rate is determined by calculating the number of seats won by a party of the number of seats it contested. BJP had a 100% strike rate (It won both the seats it contested). JKNC had a 66.67% strike rate (it won 2 out of 3 seats it contested). Congress and JKPDP had a strike rate of 0% (they lost all the seats they contested.

Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

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Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2024 election)
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Jammu & Kashmir National Conference	36	42
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Bharatiya Janata Party	29	29
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Indian National Congress	7	6
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party	5	3
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference	1	1
	Others	12	9
Total		90