Ladakh LG Notifies 100 Constituencies for the Union Territory's Eight Hill Development Councils

21 October 2026National

Ladakh Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena notified 100 constituencies for the Union Territory's eight Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Councils (LAHDCs), nearly doubling the existing 52 seats, under the LAHDC (Amendment) Regulation 2026 cleared by the Union Cabinet on 14 October 2026. Leh gets 22 constituencies and Kargil 21, followed by Sankoo 13, Changthang 10, Nubra, Sham and Zanskar nine each and Drass seven. Each council will have between 7 and 24 elected seats plus up to four nominated members drawn from women and unrepresented communities. The redraw follows Ladakh's reorganisation into eight districts.

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LAHDC Leh was created by the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council Act, 1995, and LAHDC Kargil in 2003 | Ladakh became a Union Territory without a legislature on 31 October 2019 under the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 | Ladakh was expanded from two districts to eight in 2026, with Sankoo notified as the eighth district

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