Jammu Kashmir Election Results 2024 Live: BJP's Win Or Return Of Congress-National Conference? J&K Eagerly Awaits Its Next Government In 10 Years

New Delhi: After a wait of 10 years, Jammu and Kashmir will get a new government and people are eagerly waiting to see who becomes the next Chief Minister of the union territory. J&K witnessed a three-way contest between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress-National Conference (NC) and People's Democratic Party (PDP).Exit polls have predicted a hung assembly. The Congress-NC alliance is likely to secure more seats in the House with the majority of the Exit polls predicting 46-50 seats for the alliance. The BJP is likely to win 23 to 27 seats, making it the second-largest party in the Union Territory, per People's Pulse exit poll shows. Matrize exit poll also predicted that the BJP is trailing behind Congress-NC.The BJP, which went solo in the election, has never ruled Jammu and Kashmir on its own. The saffron party formed the government with the PDP after the 2014 election and pulled out of the alliance in 2018. The following year, it scrapped the Constitution's Article 370 which gave Jammu and Kashmir its special status and divided the state into two Union Territories. This is the first assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir in a decade.PDP Could End Up Playing 'Kingmaker'If the exit polls predictions hold true, the PDP could end up playing 'kingmaker' in J&K's first state election in a decade.Warning: The exit polls do not always get it right. They have been way off the mark in the past. The most recent example being the general elections.Amid exit poll predictions of a hung assembly in the union territory, National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah said he is open to a strategic post-poll alliance with the People's Democratic Party to keep the Bharatiya Janata Party out of power after the 2024 Jammu and Kashmir Assembly election."Even if we don't need it, we will take the support (from PDP) because if we have to go ahead, we have to do it together. We all have to make an effort to save this state. This state is in a lot of difficulties," said Abdullah, according to news agency ANI.ALSO READ: Mr Abdullah, 86, however, ruled out any chance of staking claim to the Chief Minister's post should his alliance win the election.Jammu And Kashmir ElectionsThe Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, the first in nearly a decade, were held in three phases on September 18, September 25 and October 1. The union territory witnessed a voter turnout of 61.38 per cent in the first phase and 57.31 per cent in the second phase. A voter turnout of 65.48 per cent was recorded till 5 pm in the third and final phase held on October 1.Jammu and Kashmir has 90 Assembly constituencies, including 7 reserved for SCs and 9 reserved for STs. According to the Election Commission of India, there are 8.806 million eligible voters in the region. According to the Election Commission of India, Jammu and Kashmir has 88.06 lakh eligible voters.