Kashmir's biggest party opposed to India's stripping of the region's autonomy has won the most seats in poll.
Exit polls had predicted a win for the main opposition Congress party and its regional ally National Conference in India-administered Kashmir. / Photo: AP
The regional Kashmiri alliance National Conference, or NC, won 42 seats, mainly from the Kashmir Valley, the data showed. Losing power in India-administered Kashmir is not expected to impact the Modi government's ability to make federal policies. Still, it will be seen as a dampener for the BJP ahead of elections in the more politically crucial states of Maharashtra and Jharkhand.
In the Legislative Assembly, a party or an alliance will need at least 45 seats to form a government. BJP had also encouraged dozens of independent candidates and small parties to cut the vote in the Muslim-majority Kashmir region, which, as results show, seems to have not yielded much.
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