Srinagar, Oct 08(KNS):The J&K Assembly election results featured significant changes as over 30 former ministers lost their seats, many to first-time candidates.

A total of 873 candidates contested in 90 assembly constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir, with 47 seats in Kashmir and 43 in the Jammu region.

The vote counting occurred on Wednesday, revealing the National Conference won 42 seats, followed by the BJP with 29, Congress with 6, JKPDP with 3, and smaller parties and independents taking the remaining seats.

Among the former ministers who lost were Abdul Gaffar Sofi, Usman Majeed, Vikar Rasool, Muzaffar Beigh, Lal Singh, Manohar Lal, Chowdhary Zulfikar, Altaf Bukhari, Harsh Dev Singh, Tara Chand, Hakeem Mohammad Yaseen, Ghulam Nabi Lone, Abdul Majeed Paddar, Sartaj Madni, Abdul Majeed Wani, Aijaz Ahmad Khan, Ghulam Hassan Mir, Chowdhary Mohammad Ramzan, Aesia Naqash, G M Saroori, Ajay Kumar Sadhotra, Hakeem Yaseen, Sajad Kitchloo, Nasir Aslam Wani, Mohammad Ashraf Mir, Imran Ansari, Mohammad Khalil Bandh, Abdul Gani Vakil, Abdul Rehman Bhat, Jugal Kishore, Taj Mohiuddin, Mehboob Beigh, Mushtaq Bukhari, and Basharat Bukahri.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel

Around 15 of these ministers had won in 2014 on the PDP ticket but either ran as independents or joined other parties in this election.

Jammu and Kashmir will have an elected government for the first time in 10 years, following the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019. The J&K Assembly elections took place in three phases on September 18, 25, and October 1.

In J&K's 90 assembly seats, the NC and Congress have won in 48, the BJP in 29 and the PDP in three. AAP's Mehraj Malik has handed the Arvind Kejriwal-led party its first-ever electoral win in Jammu and Kashmir.(KNS).