PTI Leads In Karachi, Loses Peshawar Seat In By-Elections
PTI Leads In Karachi, Loses Peshawar Seat In By-Elections: The unofficial and unverified results for the by-election have started pouring in.
The by-elections on three seats – two in Karachi and one in Peshawar – were held on Sunday. Polling was held from 8am to 5pm under the supervision of the Pakistan Army and police.
In Karachi, votes were cast to elect representatives from PS-111 and NA-247, while in Peshawar people voted for their PK-71 representative. The Election Commission of Pakistan will release the official results later.
According to the results of 230 polling stations in NA-247, PTI’s Aftab Siddiqui is leading with 31,026 votes. MQM’s Sadiq Iftikhar has gotten 13,528 votes, while PPP’s Qaiser Nizamani has secured 10,402 votes.
In PS-111, PTI’s Shehzad Qureshi is leading with 8,791 votes, while PPP’s Fayyaz Pirzada has secured 3,733 votes. MQM’s Jahanzeb Mughal has gotten 1,388 votes.
The ruling party lost its Peshawar’s PK-71 seat to ANP’s Salahuddin, who won with 11,416 votes. PTI’s Zulfiqar Khan secured 10,004 votes.
In Peshawar, the PTI suffered another setback as according to unofficial result, the ANP candidate defeated the brother of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor. KP Governor Shah Farman had won the seat in general elections securing 17,388 votes. The seat had fallen vacant after Shah Farman was appointed the governor. The PTI awarded ticket to Shah Farman’s brother Zulfiqar Khan, while the ANP fielded Salahuddin Mohmand, a former PTI activist, in the by-election.
Salahuddin Mohmand got 11,416 votes while the runner-up Zulfiqar Khan of PTI secured 10,004 votes. Another disgruntled PTI worker, Dildar Khan, contested the election in an independent capacity and bagged 5,409 votes. This divided the PTI vote-bank and tilted the balance in favour of the ANP candidate who won the seat. Also, all the opposition parties had backed the ANP candidate to defeat the PTI.
ANP’s Waqar Ahmad Khan won PK-7 Swat defeating PTI’s Fazal Maula, while the seat vacated by former chief minister Ameer Haider Hoti, PK-53 Mardan, was won by the PTI’s Abdul Salam Afridi. Also, the ANP candidate Samar Haroon Bilour, the widow of Haroon Bilour, defeated PTI’s Muhammad Irfan on PK-78 Peshawar.
According to the provisional results, the PTI won the two constituencies in Karachi. In Karachi’s NA-247 constituency, PTI’s Aftab Siddiqui won by securing 32,326 votes, while the MQM’s Sadiq Iftikhar remained runner-up with 13,985 votes.
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