Langate

About Langate

Langate

Located in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district, Langate had a high voter turnout in the Lok Sabha elections. In the upcoming Assembly elections on October 1, the constituency will witness a high-stakes contest. Khursheed Ahmad Sheikh, brother of Baramulla MP Engineer Abdul Rashid, and backed by the Awami Ittehad Party (AIP), will challenge Irfan Sultan Panditpuri of the People’s Conference. The seat is also being contested by the JKPDP, JKNC, and JKPC. Independent candidate Engineer Rashid won the Langate constituency in both 2008 and 2014. 
 
In the 2014 elections, Langate had 70,608 registered voters, including 37,130 males and 33,477 females. There was one third-gender voter, while 84 postal votes and 40 service voters were recorded. In 2008, the total number of voters in the Langate constituency was 59,403. Out of this, 31,084 voters were male and 28,319 were female. There were only 13 postal votes in the constituency. The number of service voters in Langate in 2008 was 40 (38 were men and 2 were women).

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