Pakistan elections: Imran supported independent candidates have lead, no one has got majority till now
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Independent candidates supported by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party PTI seem to be getting a lead in Pakistan’s election results on Friday. Election results have started coming slowly after unusual delay. PTI also made allegations of rigging regarding the delay in election results. Counting of votes is still going on in Pakistan. Elections were held in the country on Thursday amid allegations of rigging, sporadic violence and mobile internet being shut down. Dozens of parties were in the fray in this election in Pakistan, but the main contest was between Imran Khan’s party ‘Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’ (PTI), three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League (N) and Bilawal Zardari Bhutto’s ‘ Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).
Counting of votes continues in the National Assembly and provincial elections in Pakistan. The Election Commission has started declaring the official results. According to the report of Pakistani Akbar Dawn, PTI is ahead on 54 seats. Whereas PML-N is currently leading on 40 seats. PPP is leading on 21 seats. At the same time, four members of the Sharif family from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML) party have succeeded in winning National Assembly seats from their stronghold Lahore, the capital of Punjab province, in the general elections. Let us tell you, there are a total of 336 seats in the National Assembly of Pakistan. Of these, elections were held on 265 seats.
To form a new government in the country, any party will have to win 133 out of 265 seats in the National Assembly. The election on one seat was postponed after the death of a candidate. Overall, 169 seats out of 336 are required to achieve majority, which also includes seats reserved for women and minorities. Pakistani officials were moving very slowly in announcing the results of the elections held on Thursday. According to the counts so far, independent candidates supported by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party of jailed and former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was disqualified from contesting the elections, have performed surprisingly well.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) started updating the results at a faster pace after facing criticism from parties, especially Khan’s PTI. PTI party had alleged that its mandate was being stolen. Former Prime Minister Imran Khan (71) is in jail and is banned from contesting elections. Candidates from Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party contested the elections as independent candidates after the country’s Supreme Court had upheld the Election Commission’s decision to strip his party of its election symbol ‘cricket bat’.
The ECP has so far announced the results of 122 National Assembly seats, in which independent candidates (mostly supported by PTI) have won 49 seats. PML-N has won 39 seats, while PPP has won 30 seats. Small parties have won other seats. The big names who won the elections include top PML-N leaders, including former Prime Minister Sharif. Sharif has defeated PTI-backed independent Dr Yasmin Rashid by a huge margin. Sharif got 171,024 votes, while Rashid got 115,043 votes.
Apart from Nawaz Sharif’s son Hamza Shehbaz and daughter Maryam Nawaz, younger brother and former Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has also won the election. All four members of the family have won from the party’s stronghold Lahore. According to ECP, PTI party leader Gauhar Ali Khan won NA-10 in Buner region of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa with 110,023 votes. He defeated Awami National Party candidate Abdul Rauf, who stood second with 30,302 votes. PTI leader and former National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser has also won. In a major upset, PPP leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has faced defeat in the elections.
Former PTI party leader and Defense Minister Pervez Khattak is also among those who lost the election. According to ECP data, out of the declared results of 53 constituencies of Sindh Provincial Assembly, PPP has won 45 seats, while independent candidates managed to win only four constituencies. Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) has won two seats and Jamaat-e-Islami and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) have won one seat each. According to the results declared for 50 constituencies of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial assembly, 45 independent candidates supported by Tehreek-e-Insaf have won.
In Punjab Assembly, PML-N has won 39 seats, independent candidates have won 33 seats and Muslim League-Q has won two seats. Similarly, results of six Balochistan provincial assembly seats have come so far, where PML-N and Balochistan National Party (BNP) Awami have won one seat each. Whereas in Balochistan, JUI-F has won three seats, while PPP has won one seat.
In the unofficial trends broadcast on television channels, PTI-backed candidates have left their rivals behind in many seats of the National and Provincial Assemblies. Geo News reported that PTI is leading on 55 seats of the National Assembly. Voting is held only on 266 out of 336 seats in the National Assembly. In Bajaur, voting on one seat was postponed after a candidate was killed in the attack. Another 60 seats are reserved for women and 10 seats are reserved for minorities and these are allotted to the winning parties on the basis of proportional representation.
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