The Election Commission of India on Wednesday (September 24, 2025) announced elections to four Rajya Sabha seats from Jammu and Kashmir to be held on October 24.

This comes nearly an year after Assembly elections were held in Jammu and Kashmir .

The Union Territory has been unrepresented in the Upper House of Parliament since February 15, 2021, the day when Ghulam Nabi Azad and Nazir Ahmed Laway finished their terms. Two other members, Fayaz Ahmed Mir and Shamsheer Singh Manhas, had completed their terms on February 10, the same year.

While announcing the schedule, the EC said that the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir (with legislature) and Ladakh (without legislature).

As per the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act,

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