Updates: 6:50 pm: In Ladakh, BJP's Thupstan Chhewang defeated Independent candidate Ghulam Raza by just 36 votes.
5:50 pm: PDP's Mehbooba Mufti defeated NC's Mirza Mehboob Beg in the Anantnag seat by 65,417 votes.
4:50 pm: In the Jammu seat, BJP's Jugal Kishore defeated Congress's Madan Lal Sharma by 2,57,280 votes.
3:50 pm: The BJP has won two seats in the state. Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad loses to BJP's Dr Jitendra Singh by 60,976 votes.
10:51 am: Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad is leading in Udhampur.
9:41 am: NC leader Farooq Abdullah trailing in Srinagar.
9:34 am: The PDP is leading on 2 seats, BJP, Congress and Independent are leading on 1 seat each.
9:14 am: The BJP and PDP are leading on 2 seats each.
9:06 am: The PDP is leading on one seat.
New Delhi: The fate of 77 candidates, including Union Ministers Farooq Abdullah and Ghulam Nabi Azad, from six Lok Sabha seats of Jammu and Kashmir will be known after the counting of votes on Friday. Tight security arrangements have been made in and around the counting centres in five districts in Jammu and Kashmir.
The stakes are high for NC-Congress coalition in Lok Sabha polls ahead of December-end Assembly elections as political heavyweights and former J&K chief ministers Abdullah and Azad are in the fray along with its MPs. In last elections, the NC-congress coalition had bagged 5 out of 6 seats.
Giving tough fight to NC-Congress coalition is opposition PDP with the party's chief Mehbooba Mufti hoping to score a victory from Kashmir Valley in order to increase its electoral turf ahead of Assembly elections in the state.
State BJP Chief Jugal Kishore Sharma and JKNPP Chief Prof Bhim Singh are contesting from Jammu region in the state.
Key candidates:
Farooq Abdullah NC Srinagar
Ghulam Nabi Azad Congress Udhampur
Mehbooba Mufti PDP Anantnag
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