EC Announces Schedule For Assembly Polls: Three-Phase Election In J&K From 18 September, Haryana To Vote On 1 October

The Election Commission on Friday (16 August) announced the schedule for assembly elections in two states.

In a press conference, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar announced the dates for the elections in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir.

Elections in J&K will be held in three phases on 18 September, 25 September and 1 October, respectively.

The voting in Haryana will be held on 1 October.

Counting for both J&K and Haryana elections will be done on 4 October.

The legislative assemblies of Haryana has 90 assembly constituencies. 

Similarly, the J&K legislative assembly also has 90 seats that will go for poll.

The term of the Haryana Assembly is ending in November and a Supreme Court judgment has stated that elections in Jammu and Kashmir has to be held by 30 September 2024.

J&K has been without an elected House for over five years now.

The Union Territory has been functioning without an elected government since 2018. 

Assembly elections were last held in J&K in 2014.

In 2019, the Modi government bifurcated the erstwhile state into two Union Territories -- Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.

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