If we focus on areas which fall under the National Capital Region (NCR) surrounding Delhi—in Faridabad and Gurugram districts—they have largely been retained by the BJP, as per EC’s leads.

Early trends show that an alliance of opposition parties is leading as votes are being counted after the first assembly election in Indian-administered Kashmir in a decade. This was also the first assembly election to be held since the federal government revoked the region's autonomy and changed the former state into a federally governed territory of Jammu and Kashmir in 2019.

India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) appeared on course for a surprise win on Tuesday in polls in the northern state of Haryana, but was trailing the opposition in the first elections in a decade in troubled Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir.

The BJP is in the lead in the state of Haryana which borders the capital Delhi, but trails in the federal territories of Jammu and Kashmir, which are seeing their first election results in a decade. The first local elections in India since Mr Modi’s party lost its outright majority in parliament,

BJP secures 29 seats in Jammu region in the J&K assembly elections, with nearly 26% vote share but fails to form a government. Significant winners include Shagun Parihar and Shakti Raj Parihar, amidst challenges from Pakistan-backed terrorism and violence affecting various constituencies.