New Delhi, Oct. 21 -- Ladakh Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena on Wednesday notified 100 constituencies for the Union Territory's eight Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Councils (LAHDCs), nearly doubling the number of elected seats from the existing 52 and paving the way for elected Hill Councils in all eight districts, including the newly created Sankoo district.

Under the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Councils (Amendment) Regulation, 2026, the constituencies have been distributed across the eight councils, with Leh having 22 seats, Kargil 21, Sankoo 13, Changthang 10, Nubra, Sham and Zanskar nine each, and Drass seven.

In a post on X, LG Saxena described the notification as a milestone for grassroots democracy in Ladakh. "...