The National Conference-Congress alliance is leading in 46 seats in Jammu and Kashmir, while the BJP is ahead in 23 seats, according to preliminary trends.
Trends uploaded by the Electoral Commission showed that the PDP was leading in three seats in the Union constituency while the Independents were leading in eight seats.
The National Congress was leading with 39 seats while its alliance Congress was leading with seven seats, according to the trends filed by the Election Commission with 64 out of 90 seats.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), CPI(M), Peoples Conference and Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) are also leading with one seat each.
Prominent among those leading are National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah who is leading from both seats, Pradesh Congress president Tariq Hameed Karra, AICC general secretary Ghulam Ahmad Mir, CPI(M) leader MY Tarigami and former BJP minister Sham Lal Sharma and Devender Singh Rana. .
However, JK BJP president Ravinder Raina is trailing by 2,797 votes to his nearest National Congress rival Surinder Choudhary from Nowshera constituency.
The counting of votes began at 8 am in 28 counting centers for the 90 seats of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly which went to the polls in three phases.
