Polling officials during the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council elections in Leh.
Leh:
Retaining power, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the 26-member election of the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) -Leh by winning 15 seats, while the Congress won nine.
The independents won two seats in the election, the first since Ladakh became a Union territory in August last year.
BJP chairman JP Nadda called the party’s victory, whose ballot was on Thursday, historic. “Gratitude to the people of Ladakh for their faith in the BJP,” he tweeted and praised the party leaders and workers.
The victory of the BJP in the Autonomous Hill Development Council of Leh, the election of Leh is historic. The BJP won 15 seats out of 26. Congratulations Shri @Jtnbjp and all the karyakartas of @ BJP4Ladakh unit.
Gratitude to the people of Ladakh for their faith in BJP.– Jagat Prakash Nadda (@JPNadda) October 26, 2020
The party won 17 seats in the 2015 election. Congress won four, the National Conference had two seats and the Independents three.
A turnout of 65.07% was recorded in Thursday’s election.
The Aam Aadmi party, which had contested for the first time, did not open its account. The National Conference and the PDP had remained on the sidelines.
“Out of 26 seats the results of which were declared today, the BJP won 15 seats and Congress won nine seats. Two seats were won by independents,” an official said.
The BJP candidates won in the last village of Turtuk on the Indo-Pakistan border but lost in the last hamlet of Chushul on the Sino-Indian border. The Independents bagged the seats of Nyoma and Chushul.
BJP won Diskit, Tegar, Hundar, Panamik, Tangtse, Kungyam, Martselang, Karzok, Thiksay, Chuchot, Sku-Markha, Lamayouru, Khaltse and Lingshet, officials said.
Congress won the seats of the Saspol, Igoo, Temisgam, Basgo, Lower Leh, Upper Leh, Phyang, Sakti and Skurbuchan councils.
Ninety-four candidates were in the fray and over 65% of voters had exercised their right to vote.
In the 2010 election, Congress had 22 seats, while the BJP had four.
The vote count for the sixth LAHDC elections was held at the SSK Amphitheater, Tisuru, Leh. In accordance with COVID-19 guidelines, all standard safety measures such as wearing masks, using disinfectants, and respecting social distancing have been sincerely followed at each counter.
An electorate of 89,776, including 45,025 women, could exercise their right to vote in 294 polling stations in 26 constituencies in Leh.
The LAHDC-Leh has a total of 30 seats, with four of the councilors appointed by the government.
Since the formation of the hill council in 1995, Congress had swept the polls three times, while the Ladakh Union Territorial Front had won elections in 2005. The BJP wrested control of the council from Congress for the first time. times in the last election. Kargil District in Ladakh had a separate hill council, which was elected in 2018 for a five-year term.
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