Anantnag-Rajouri Election 2024 Voting Result Highlights: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference candidate Mian Altaf Ahmed registered a resounding victory in the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat. Ahmed won the Anantnag-Rajouri seat by a margin of over 2 lakh votes. Ahmed garnered 2,79,279 against PDP's Mehbooba Mufti, who grabbed 2,38,210 votes.

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti conceded defeat on Tuesday from Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seats even as the counting of votes was still underway. According to the EC data for the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat, Ahmad was leading against Mufti by a margin of more than 2 79,279 lakh votes.

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"Respecting the verdict of the people I thank my PDP workers & leaders for their hard work & support despite all the odds. My deepest gratitude to the people who voted for me. Winning & losing is part of the game & won't deter us from our path. Congratulations to Mian Sahab for his victory," Mufti wrote in a post on X.

The counting of votes in Anantnag-Rajouri, one of the parliamentary constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir, began at 8 AM today. This constituency voted on May 25 in the sixth phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. Anantnag-Rajouri, reconfigured by the Delimitation Commission in 2022, now includes 18 assembly segments across five districts, excluding Pulwama and parts of Shopian, while incorporating most of the Rajouri and Poonch districts.

Earlier, the polling in the region was scheduled for May 7 in the third phase but the EC postponed it citing adverse weather conditions causing accessibility issues. Key candidates who fought the Anantnag-Rajouri seat include PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, National Conference's Mian Altaf, Apni Party's Zafar Iqbal Manhas, and DPAP's Mohammad Saleem Parray.