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Lone Lok Sabha seat from Ladakh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 71.82% (0.77%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Result Map of the 2024 general election in Ladakh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2024 Indian general election was held in Ladakh on 20 May 2024 to elect 1 member of the 18th Lok Sabha. [1] [2] These elections are the first elections to be held in Ladakh after the separating of the territory from Jammu and Kashmir under the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 and granting it a separate Union territory status.
Poll event | Phase |
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Notification Date | 26 April 2024 |
Last Date for filing nomination | 3 May 2024 |
Scrutiny of nomination | 4 May 2024 |
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination | 6 May 2024 |
Date of poll | 20 May 2024 |
Date of counting of votes/Result | 4 June 2024 |
Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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Bharatiya Janata Party | Tashi Gyalson | 1 | |||
Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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Indian National Congress | Nawang Rigzin Jora | 1 | |||
Constituency | |||||||
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NDA | INDIA | ||||||
1 | Ladakh | BJP | Tashi Gyalson | INC | Tsering Namgyal | ||
Polling agency | Date published | Margin of Error | Lead | |||
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NDA | INDIA | Others | ||||
ABP News-CVoter | March 2024 [3] | ±5% | 1 | 0 | 0 | NDA |
Polling agency | Date published | Margin of Error | Lead | |||
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NDA | INDIA | Others | ||||
ABP News-CVoter | March 2024 [3] | ±5% | 44% | 41% | 15% | 3 |
Polling agency | Lead | |||
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NDA | INDIA | Others |
Alliance/ Party | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
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Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
Mohmad Haneefa | 65,259 | 47.96% | New | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
INDIA | INC | 37,397 | 27.88% | 10.73% | 1 | 0 | |||
NDA | BJP | 31,956 | 23.49% | 10.36% | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
NOTA | 912 | 0.67% | 0.06% | ||||||
Total | 1,35,524 | 100% | - | 3 | 1 | - | |||
Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | ||||||||||||||
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Party | Alliance | Candidate | Votes | % | Party | Alliance | Candidate | Votes | % | Votes | % | |||||||
1 | Ladakh | 71.82% | Independent | Independent | Mohmad Haneefa | 65,629 | 48.15% | INC | INDIA | Tsering Namgyal | 37,397 | 27.59% | 27,862 | 20.56% | ||||
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