As many as 415 candidates are in the fray from these 40 seats voting today. 16 of these seats are in the Kashmir region while 24 in the Jammu region. About 3.9 million voters are eligible to cast their franchise at 5,

With the polling gaining momentum with long queues of voters waiting eagerly to cast their ballot, all the 40 assembly constituencies across seven districts of Jammu and Kashmir have recorded 28.12 percent voter turnout till 11 am in the third phase of assembly elections,

Voting in the final phase of the election to choose a local government in Indian-controlled Kashmir began Tuesday in the first such vote since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government stripped the disputed region of its special status five years ago.