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Biggest Kashmir party opposed to India's stripping of region's autonomy wins most seats in election

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Biggest Kashmir party opposed to India 's stripping of region's autonomy wins most seats in election.

Vote seen as a referendum against the 2019 move by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.

National Conference, or NC , won 41 seats and was leading in one constituency.

Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party secured 29 seats, all from Hindu -dominated areas of Jammu .

The region’s last assembly election was held in 2014 , after which the BJP ruled in a coalition with the local Peoples Democratic Party .

Polls in the past have been marked with violence, boycotts and vote-rigging.

Many Muslim Kashmiris support the rebels’ goal of uniting the territory, either under Pakistani rule or as an independent country.