More results for the National Assembly’s 265 seats that went to polls on Thursday, February 8, poured in by Friday evening, but the pattern set in the early hours of the vote-count persisted. PTI-backed independent candidates still form the largest group of winners.
According to unofficial results at least 100 independent candidates have won their constituencies. PMLN won 68 and PPP 52 seats. MQM-P’s candidates returned in at least 15 national constituencies.
This is the situation after the situation in at least 235 constituencies became clear. We are still for the results from the remaining 25 constituencies.
However, these results are based on vote count held only at a limited number of polling stations. A complete count is expected to by announced by the ECP tonight. The electoral body announced the provisional results for 220 constituencies by Friday evening.
PMLN and PPP have emerged as two major political parties in the election, as PTI technically went out of the game as party after failing to hold the intra-party election in the manner required by the ECP.
After the polling ended Thursday evening, initial reports suggested some of the big players had encountered major upsets: Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari lost NA-127 seat to PMLN’s Atta Tarar, JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman lost his home constituency of NA-44 in Dera Ismail Khan to Ali Amin Gandapur, JI’s Sirajul Haq lost to an independent candidate in NA-6 Lower Dir.
PMLN’s KP President Amir Muqam failed to win his NA-2 seat from the Malakand region. The party also lost NA-18 Haripur to Omar Ayub.
PML-N’s Hanif Abbasi faced a tough fight from an independent candidate in Rawalpindi NA-56 and PPP’s Yousaf Raza Gilani was defeated by an independent candidate in Multan’s NA-148 constituency.
The flow of results to newsrooms almost stopped by 2pm Friday. Election rules allow Returning Officers to stop sending results after 2pm and resume their job at 10am the next day. On Friday morning, the ECP set up a website and released hundreds of results for the national assembly.
The Election Commission of Pakistan has expressed optimism that the results will be completed and announced on time.
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