Fayaz Bukhari
Srinagar, May 16: The ruling National Conference was routed in Kashmir valley as they lost all the three seats to opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) by a sizable margin with NC stalwart and former Chief Minister and Union Minister, Farooq Abdullah, losing an election in the State for the first time in his political career.
The opposition PDP has routed NC in 46 Assembly segments of Kashmir valley by grabbing 39 Assembly segments while NC got lead 5 segments and People’s Conference and Awami Ittihad Party got lead in one Assembly segment each. PDP has 19 Members in State Legislative Assembly from Kashmir valley thus adding 20 more while NC has 21 MLA and lost in 16 segments.
Abdullah lost to former Finance Minister and PDP’s Tariq Hamid Karra by a margin of 42,280 votes in Srinagar Parliamentary constituency. He was seeking re-election from the constituency and polled 115643 votes against 157923 by Karra. This is for the first time he lost election in the State since joining active politics in early 1980s.
In Anantnag-Pulwama, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti defeated NC’s incumbent Mirza Mehboob Beg with a margin of 44,735 votes. Mehbooba got 1,42,237 and Beg 97,502 votes.
In Baramulla-Kupwara, PDP’s candidate and former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig defeated NC’s incumbent Sharief-ud-Din Shariq with a margin of 29,219 votes. Baig polled 1,75,277 against Shariq’s 1,46,058 votes. Salam-ud-din Bajad of People’s Conference polled 71,154 votes while as an Independent MLA Engineer Rashid secured 22,090 votes. Another Independent candidate, Aga Syed Abdul Hussain polled 7301 votes.
Soon after the announcement of the results PDP celebrated its victory by bursting fire crackers and dancing on the streets of Srinagar, Baramulla and Anantnag.
PDP made strong inroads in Srinagar Parliamentary constituency which was thought to be NC bastion. They took lead in 12 Assembly segments of the constituency out of 15. PDP made strong in roads in Srinagar and Ganderbal districts.
In Kangan Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 3607 votes with its candidate polling 21124 votes and NC candidate 17517 votes.
In Ganderbal Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 3013 votes with its candidate polling 13320 votes and NC candidate 10307 votes. The Assembly segment is represented by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
In Hazratbal Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 5907 votes with its candidate polling 9083 votes and NC candidate 3176 votes. The segment is represented by brother of Dr Farooq Abdullah, Mustafa Kamaal.
In Eidgah Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 1197 votes with its candidate polling 3531 votes and NC candidate 2334 votes. The segment is represented by Speaker Mubarak Gul.
In Sonwar Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 3198 votes with its candidate polling 7262 votes and NC candidate 4094 votes.
In Habba Kadal Assembly segment NC got a lead of 1525 votes with its candidate polling 1819 votes and NC candidate 294 votes.
In Batmaloo Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 5195 votes with its candidate polling 9431 votes and NC candidate 4236 votes.
In Amira Kadal Assembly segment NC got a lead of 323 votes with its candidate polling 2938 votes and NC candidate 2615 votes.
In Khanyar Assembly segment NC got a lead of 1650 votes with its candidate polling 3245 votes and NC candidate 1595 votes.
In Zadibal Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 246 votes with its candidate polling 2137 votes and NC candidate 1891 votes.
In Khan Sahib Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 9742 votes with its candidate polling 15868 votes and NC candidate 6126 votes.
In Budgam Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 3191 votes with its candidate polling 15377 votes and NC candidate 12186 votes.
In Charar-e-Sharif Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 3085 votes with its candidate polling 26870 votes and NC candidate 23785 votes.
In Beerwah Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 2179 votes with its candidate polling 13012 votes and NC candidate 10833 votes.
In Chadoora Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 5251 votes with its candidate polling 16127 votes and NC candidate 10876 votes.
In Tral Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 397 votes with its candidate polling 753 votes and NC candidate 356 votes.
In Pampore Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 2922 votes with its candidate polling 3661 votes and NC candidate 739 votes.
In Pulwama Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 1327 votes with its candidate polling 2319 votes and NC candidate 992 votes.
In Rajpora Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 3664 votes with its candidate polling 9391 votes and NC candidate 5727 votes.
In Shopian Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 4388 votes with its candidate polling 11019 votes and NC candidate 6631 votes.
In Wacchi Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 1103 votes with its candidate polling 7325 votes and NC candidate 6222 votes.
In Noorabad Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 148 votes with its candidate polling 24753 votes and NC candidate 24605 votes.
In Kulgam Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 5069 votes with its candidate polling 10112 votes and NC candidate 5043 votes.
In Home Shalibugh Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 1272 votes with its candidate polling 6211 votes and NC candidate 4939 votes.
In Anantnag Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 4768 votes with its candidate polling 9689 votes and NC candidate 4921 votes.
In Dooru Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 3967 votes with its candidate polling 16452 votes and NC candidate 12485 votes.
In Bijbehara Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 7197 votes with its candidate polling 17987 votes and NC candidate 10790 votes.
In Pahalgam Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 10231 votes with its candidate polling 24355 votes and NC candidate 14124 votes.
In Devsar Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 3031 votes with its candidate polling 18047 votes and NC candidate 15016 votes.
In Kokernag Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 8557 votes with its candidate polling 21300 votes and NC candidate 12743 votes.
In Shangus Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 5877 votes with its candidate polling 15504 votes and NC candidate 9627 votes.
In Karnah Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 3434 votes with its candidate polling 10915 votes and NC candidate 7481 votes.
In Kupwara Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 1905 votes with its candidate polling 21275 votes and NC candidate 19370 votes.
In Lolab Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 5886 votes with its candidate polling 23945 votes and NC candidate 18059 votes.
In Handwara Assembly segment NC got a lead of 10855 votes with its candidate polling 21528 votes and NC candidate 9673 votes. However, the People’s Conference candidate took a lead from this Assembly segment by polling 23786 votes.
In Langate Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 3713 votes over NC with its candidate polling 7284 votes and NC candidate 3571 votes. However, the AIP candidate took a lead from this Assembly segment by polling 12607 votes.
In Uri Assembly segment NC got a lead of 2602 votes with its candidate polling 18893 votes and PDP candidate 16291 votes.
In Rafiabad Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 1489 votes with its candidate polling 7869 votes and NC candidate 6380 votes.
In Gurez Assembly segment NC got a lead of 1861 votes with its candidate polling 4404 votes and PDP candidate 2543 votes.
In Bandipora Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 254 votes with its candidate polling 7176 votes and NC candidate 6922 votes.
In Sonawari Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 6835 votes with its candidate polling 8706 votes and NC candidate 1871 votes.
In Baramulla Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 9616 votes with its candidate polling 13063 votes and NC candidate 3447 votes.
In Gulmarg Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 4331 votes with its candidate polling 13661 votes and NC candidate 9330 votes.
In Pattan Assembly segment PDP got a lead of 6988 votes with its candidate polling 10733 votes and NC candidate 3745 votes.
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