Jammu & Kashmir DDC polls: Margin of victory less than a 100 votes on 19 seats
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Last Updated: Dec 23, 2020, 04:29 PM IST
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The PAGD swept the maiden DDC polls by winning 110 seats, while the BJP emerged as the single largest party by getting 74 seats after securing the largest vote share in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Wednesday.
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JAMMU: Nineteen candidates saw an extremely close contest in the maiden District Development Council (DDC) polls in Jammu and Kashmir where the margin of victory was less than 100. Of these candidates, eight are Independents, followed by three from the BJP, two each from the National Conference and the Congress and one each from the Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP), People Democratic Front (PDF) and the Peoples Conference (PC), as per data of the state election authority.
Independent Candidates Emerge As Key Players In J-K DDC Polls
The independent candidates bagged 46 out of 280 seats in Jammu and Kashmir s DDC polls.
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Independent candidates have emerged as big winners in Jammu and Kashmir s maiden District Development Council polls, with 49 of them having been declared elected so far from 280 seats, putting them ahead of parties like the Congress and the PDP.
Among the big Independent wins is Taranjit Singh defeating BJP s two-time MLA and former minister Sham Lal Choudhary in Suchetgarh in Jammu region by a slender margin of 11 votes.
NC emerges runners-up, Cong relegated to third place
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JAMMU, Dec 22: Riding high on the wave of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah for abrogation of special status of Jammu and Kashmir leading to total integration of erstwhile State with India and very effective campaigning by several Union Ministers and national leaders, the BJP tonight won clear majority in six District Development Councils (DDCs) out of total 10 in Jammu and emerged as a major power in the region bagging 72 out of 140 DDC seats while the Congress was relegated to third spot with just 17 seats even behind 24 of National Conference and 20 by the Independents. Newly floated Jammu Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) which was contesting its first election captured three seats while Jammu and Kashmir Nationalist Panthers Party (JKNPP) suffered humiliating defeat by getting just two seats. The PDP and BSP could barely manage to open their account winning one seat each. Dogra Swabhiman Front of former Minister and two-tim
SRINAGAR: Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesman, Altaf Thakur lost the DDC District Development council from Dadsara segment in Tral town of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district.
The seat in the restive south Kashmir area was won by Avtar Singh, an independent who secured 246 votes against Thakur’s 235.
The runner up from the seat was from National Conference, Ali Mohammad Bhat who secured 243.
Small margin wins recorded in low-turnout DDC constituencies in Kashmir
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Updated: Wednesday, December 23, 2020, 0:03 [IST]
Srinagar/Jammu, Dec 22: An independent candidate won by just three votes against his National Conference rival, as many winners of the just concluded District Development Council (DDC) elections in Jammu and Kashmir succeeded by small margins due to the low voter turnout recorded by various constituencies in the union territory.
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Avtar Singh polled 246 votes against 243 by his NC rival Ali Mohammad Bhat, the winner from Dadsara constituency in Pulwama district of south Kashmir, according to the results declared by the JK Election Commission.