The Election Commission of Pakistan has announced results of 251 National Assembly constituencies out of total 270. The results from 19 NA seats are still awaited, the electoral body said on Friday. Details available on the ECP's website show the body has received 52.22 percent results from National Assembly seats, 44.64 percent from Balochistan Assembly, 45.52 percent from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, 55 percent from Punjab and 48.68 percent from Sindh Assembly. According to the latest party position, PTI has won 115 seats, PML-N 62, PPPP 43, Independents 12, MMAP 12, MQM-P 06, PML-Q 05,GDA 02, while AML, ANP, BAP, and BNP-M have one seat each. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s tsunami practically swept KP both in the national and provincial assembly constituencies and secured two-third majority to form government in the province. NA-238 Karachi: PPP’s Agha Rafiqullah wins with 29598 votes. Pakistan Rah-e-Haq Party’s Hafiz Aurangzeb is runner up with 19463 votes NA-237 Karachi: PTI’s Jamil Ahmed wins with 33289 votes defeating PPP’s Abdul Hakim Baloch who secured 31907 votes NA-236 Karachi Malir 1: Jam Abdul Karim of PPP wins Karachi Malir 1 with 66623 votes. PTI candidate Masroor Ali follows with 26456 votes NA-200 Larkana: PPP Chairman wins with 84426 votes. Runner up is Rashid Mehmood Soomro of MMA with 50200 votes NA-15: PML-N's Murtaza Javed Abbasi wins with 95,346 votes. PTI's Ali Asghar follows with 81,845 votes. NA-254: PTI’s Muhammad Aslam wins in Azizabad with 72,070 votes. MQM-P Sheikh Salahuddin is runner-up with 48,813 votes. Bilawal Bhutto loses in Lyari NA-246: PTI's Shakoor Shad beats PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in NA-246, Lyari. Abdul Shakoor Shad got 52,750 votes, beating TLP's Ahmed who secured 42,345 votes. Bilawal Bhutto finished third with 39,325 votes. NA-102: PTI’s Nawab Sher Waseer wins in NA-102, Faisalabad 2 with 109,708 votes. PML-N’s Tallal Chaudhry runner up with 97,869 votes. NA-247: PTI's Arif Alvi wins in NA-247 Karachi with 31,202 votes. MQM-Pakistan's Farooq Sattar runner-up with 8,452 votes. NA-132: PML-N's Shehbaz Sharif wins in NA-132 Lahore 10 with 95,834 votes. PTI's Muhammad Mansha Sindhu runner-up with 49,093 votes. NA-221: PPPP’s Pir Noor Muhammad Shah win with 75,360 votes. PTI’s Shah Mehmood Qureshi runner-up with 57,125 votes. NA-227: MQM’s Salahuddin wins with 52,053 votes. PTI’s Muhammad Hakam follows with 41,513 votes. NA-231: PPPP’s Ayaz Ali Sherazi wins with 129,980 votes. MMA’s Molvi Muhammad Saleh Alahdad runner-up with 11,177 votes. NA-235: PPPP’s Rafiq Ahmed Jamali wins with 81,200 votes. PTI’s Karim Ali Jatioi follows with 63,008 votes. NA-250: PTI’s Ataullah wins with 30,052 votes. MQM’s Fayyaz Kaimkhani follows with 24,066 votes. NA-252: PTI’s Aftab Jehangir wins with 21,065 votes. MQM’s Abdul Qadir Khanzada runner-up with 17,858 votes. NA-264: MMA's Molvi Asmatullah wins with 14,887 votes. BNP’s Malik Abdul Wali Kakar runner-up with 10,071 votes. NA-266: BNP’s Agha Hassan Baloch wins with 20,034 votes. MMA's Hafiz Hussain Ahmed follows with 11,057 votes. NA-268: BNP’s Muhammad Hashim wins with 14,435 votes. MMA's Muhammad Usman Badini follows with 12,272 votes. NA-199: GDA's Ghous Bux Mahar wins with 62,785 votes. PPP’s Zulfiqar Ali Kemario runner-up with 55,987 votes. NA-201: PPP's Khursheed Ahmed Junejo wins with 97,051 votes. GDA's Allah Bux Unar runner-up with 69,111 votes. NA-210: PPPP’s Syed Javed Jilani wins with 90,718 votes. GDA’s Syed Kazim Ali Shah runner-up with 78,525 votes. NA-217: PPPP’s Roshanuddin Junejo wins with 102,361 votes. GDA's Mehar Ali Khan runner-up with 43,757 votes. NA-219: PPPP’s Mir Munwar Ali Talpur wins with 105,823 votes. GDA's Arbab Ghulam Rahim follows with 51,145 votes. NA-220: PPPP’s Nawaz Yousaf Talpur wins with 162,979 votes. PTI’s Shah Mehmood Qureshi runner-up with 104,267 votes. NA-186: PTI’s Amir Talal Gopand wins with 62,915 votes. PPPP's Muhammad Dawood Khan follows with 52,790 votes. NA-187: PTI’s Abdul Majeed Khan Niazi wins with 93,902 votes. Independent Bahadur Ahmed Khan runner-up with 82,225 votes. NA-189: PTI’s Khawja Sheraz Mehmood wins with 78,596 votes. Independent Sardar Meer Badshah runner-up with 39,522 votes. NA-195: PTI’s Sardar Riaz Mehmood Khan wins with 53,724 votes. PML-N Khizar Hussain Mazari runner-up with 42,426 votes. NA-197: PPPP’s Ehsanur Rehman Mazari wins with 84,742 votes. MMA’s Shamsheer Ali Mazari follows with 47,326 votes. NA-198: PPP's Abid Hussain Bhaiyo wins NA-198 Shikarpur-1 with 61,213 votes. Independent Muhammad Ibrahim Jatoi follows with 49,961 votes. NA-25: PTI’s Pervaiz Khattak wins NA-25, Nowshera 1 with 82,118 votes. PPP’s Khan Pervez runner-up with 35,658 votes. NA-24: PTI’s Fazal Muhammad Khan win in NA-24 Charsadda with 83,495 votes. ANP Chief Asfandyar Wali follows with 59,483 votes. NA-74: PML-N’s Ali Zahid wins with 97,237 votes. PTI’s Ghulam Abbas follows with 93,434 votes. NA-50: Independent Muhammad Ali wins with 23,830 votes. Independent Syed Tariq Gilani follows with 8,250 votes. NA-202: PPP’s Aftab Shahban Mirani wins with 72,159 votes. MMA’s Nasir Mehmood Soomor follows with 36,046 votes. NA-265: PTI’s Qasim Khan Suri wins with 25,973 votes. BNP’s Nawabzada Mir Lashkari Raisani follows with 20,389 votes. NA-185: Independent Syed Basit wins with 94,282 votes. PTI's Muhammad Muazzam Ali Jatoi follows with 72,822 votes. NA-105: PTI’s Raza Nasrullah wins with 77, 862 votes. Independent Muhammad Masood Nasir follows with 69,211 votes. NA-110: PTI’s Raja Riaz Ahmed wins with 114,215 votes. PML-N’s Rana Muhammad Afzal Khan follows with 108,172 votes. NA-226: MQM’s Sabir Kaimkhani wins with 46,646 votes. PTI’s Jamshed Ali Sheikh follows with 38,672 votes. NA-143: PML-N’s Rao Muhammad Ajmal Khan wins with 142,988 votes. PTI’s Syed Gulzar Sibtain follows with 89,177 votes. NA-107: PTI’s Khurram Shehzad wins with 126,441 votes. PML-N’s Haji Muhammad Akram Ansari follows with 102,159 votes. NA-253: MQM’s Usama Qadri wins with 52,426 votes. PTI’s Ashraf Jabbar follows with 49,145 votes. NA-92: PML-N’s Syed Javed Hasnain Shah wins with 96,421 votes. PTI’s Sahibzada Naeem Sialvi follows with 65,700 votes NA-244: PTI’s Ali Haider Zaidi wins with 69,475 votes. PML-N’s Miftah Ismail follows with 31,247 votes. NA-243: PTI chief Imran Khan wins with 91,358 votes. MQM’s Syed Ali Raza Abidi follows with 24,082 votes. NA-214: PPPP’s Ghulam Mustafa Shah wins with 110,902 votes. SUP’s Syed Zainul Abideen follows with 54,676 votes. NA-237: PTI’s Jamil Ahmed Khan wins with 33,289 votes. PPPP’s Abdul Hakim Baloch follows with 31,907 votes<doc-sep>Pakistan's Samaa TV reported that there are problems with the Result Transmission System of the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA). Auto refresh feeds According to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), polling will start at 8 am (8.30 am IST) today and will go on till 6 pm (6.30 pm IST). The counting of votes usually begins soon after polling is concluded. This year too, the ECP is likely to follow a similar schedule despite an hour's extension in polling. Independent candidate Mirza Mohammad Ahmed Mughal, candidate from NA-103 and PP-103 constituencies, committed suicide on Saturday ahead of the general election. He reportedly shot himself dead following an alleged dispute with his sons. Election is being held in 270 of 272 NA seats as it has been postponed in two seats. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Hanif Abbasi was handed a life sentence in the Ephedrine quota case, rendering him unfit to contest the polls for NA-60, leading to the postponement. Here is a party-wise distribution of the number of candidates contesting for the general election and provincial elections from all the provinces in Pakistan. Thirteen transgenders are contesting the elections this time in Pakistan and their names were announced in a national consultation organised by All Pakistan Transgender Election Network (APTEN) in collaboration with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). Bilawal Bhutto Zaradi of PPP is contesting the first election of his political career from four constituencies in the country. Cricketer-turned-politican and chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has submitted his nomination from five constituencies — NA-35 (Bannu), NA-53 (Islamabad), NA-95 (Mianwali), NA-131 (Lahore) and NA-243 (Karachi). PTM leader Manzoor Pashteen has already announced that the movement is non-partisan and non-parliamentary. However, locals believe that since the three have represented local people's grievances earlier and have become "voice of the voiceless", their chances of winning are higher. The indigenous PTM has gained immense popularity in a few months in Pashtun belt. Pashtun Tahafuz Movement's (PTM) top leaders are contesting elections as Independent candidates from former Federally Administered Tribal Area. The area had remained hub of militants for a decade. Ali Wazir, Mohsin Dawar and Abdullah Nangyal are known critics of Taliban narrative and are critical of the military's role in the Pashtun belt. Voting across 270 National Assembly and 577 general seats to provincial assemblies has begun. In all, 10,59,55,409 voters will cast their votes in 840 constituencies of the National Assembly and four provincial assemblies of the country. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) suspended polling in eight constituencies — two of the National Assembly and six of provincial assemblies — for various reasons, while a candidate has been declared winner from a provincial assembly seat unopposed. A suicide bomber killed more than 131 people and injured 150 others at an election rally in Balochistan’s Mastung on July 13. On July 10, Haroon Bilour of Awami National Party (ANP) was among the 22 dead when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a political event held in Peshawar. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan took the responsibility of the blast. On 16 July, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Sheikh Aftab Ahmed’s vehicle was targeted in Attock. He was returning from an election meeting when the incident occurred. As campaigning was gathering steam in the latter stages, a spate of suicide bombings targeted candidates of the major political parties. Siraj Raisani of the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP), Haroon Bilour of the Awami National Party (ANP) and Ikramullah Gandapur of the PTI were all targeted. In all, these bombings claimed over 200 lives, while hundreds more were left wounded. Ikram Khan Durrani, a former chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, survived two separate bombings. There are 85,058 polling stations and 2,44,687 polling booths across all the provinces of Pakistan. Among these 17,007 polling stations have been designated as "highly-sensitive". A total of 8,19,119 polling staff have been deployed to ensure the smooth conduct of elections. According to Dawn , the Election Commission of Pakistan has received complaints over delay in voting process. In one of the polling stations of Jacobabad, unavailability of ink led to a delay in starting of polling. Polling on two NA and six Provincial seats had been cancelled by ECP: The government has deployed 66 platoons of Frontier Constabulary throughout Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP). A sense of fear prevails throughout Peshawar due to recent attacks on Awami National Party leader Haroon Bilour, who was killed in a suicide blast. His uncle, Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, is contesting from the same area of Peshawar for the National Assembly seat. This locality (PK-75 and NA-31) Peshawar-V is the most sensitive area as it was here that the highest number of raids were conducted against militants and the highest number of target killers arrested. Asifa and Bakhtawar, daughters of former president of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari and late Benazir Bhutto, after casting their votes in Tandu Alayaar, Sindh province. The care taker prime minister, Nasar ul Mulk, will cast his vote in Swat's Govt Boys School Gul Kada. Due to inclement weather, he will reach his native city late. Security officials are on high alert in the region, Ayaz Sadiq, the speaker of the National Assembly and PML-N candidate of NA-129 Lahore, told reporters that the voting process was going at a snail's speed. He also said that it was slow due to lack of electricity. Transgenders in Lahore (NA-135) are not being allowed to cast their vote in male polling stations, reported Dawn. Women are barred from voting in Achini area of Peshawar. Locals say it is against their tradition. As per the ECP rules, elections would be declared null in any constituency where women's vote is found to be less them 10 percent. A blast has bene heard in Quetta's Eastern Bypass area. Several people are reportedly injured, according to ARY News . Police and rescue teams have rushed to the site. After the ECP denied recognition to the MML, JuD chief Saeed announced that around 200 candidates of his party would contest the polls under the banner of a little-known party, the Allah-o-Akbar Tehreek (AAT), which is already registered with the election commission.<doc-sep>KARACHI: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) has surprisingly emerged as a major political party in Karachi as it seems to grab 12 National Assembly seats out of 21. Election-2018 has produced surprise results in the metropolis for the first time in almost 30 years of its history as Karachi’s most popular party MQM-P has so far been declared victorious on six NA seat only. As unofficial results continue to pour in from across Pakistan after the day-long polling. According to results received from nearly 30 percent poling stations, PTI has secured a lead on 112 seats followed by PML-N which is leading in 64 NA constituencies. While in a major setback, the head of all major political parties including PML-N, PPP, JUI-F, ANP, QWP, JI lost elections from the PTI rookies. While Mustafa Kamal PSP is yet to make place in the race .<doc-sep>NA-245 Results of Karachi East 4 for Election 2018 has been received from 39% polling stations. Up till now, Amir Liaqat Hussain of PTI leads with 21,605 votes while Dr Farooq Sattar from MQM-P is on 2nd position with 12,010 votes. Other candidates who are contesting in Election 2018 from this constituency are Abdul Khursheed Khan - IND, Abdul Anees Khan - IND, Saleem Sachwani - IND, Khawaja Tariq Nazir - PML-N, Samina Huma Mir - ANP, Saif Uddin - MMA, Ahmed Raza Amjadi - TLP, Farrukh Niaz Tanoli - PPPP, Dr.Sagheer Ahmed - PSP, Mohammad Shafiq - MQM-H and Mohammad Jamil - IND. We will keep updating this post with latest information. Please keep checking this page for live election results of NA-245 Karachi East 4.<doc-sep>
Share: KARACHI - The PTI on Wednesday claimed to have won a dozen National Assembly seats from Karachi amidst the other parties criticizing the Election Commission of Pakistan for not allowing their respective political agents to witness the vote counts. Amidst the allegations from the parties of sending their political agents out of the polling stations at the time of vote counting, various journalist bodies also claimed lack of access to the polling centres. PTI claimed victory on more than a dozen seats of National Assembly while denying having official or unofficial results from Election Commission. Majority of the seats claimed by the PTI were also claimed by MQM-P. The PTI was leading with a majority of votes in at least 12 of National Assembly Karachi seats as per the counts received to PTI Central Election Cell, said PTI Karachi spokesman while talking to The Nation. He said that it was yet to receive the original counts of votes but so far the PTI was in the leading position in NA-240, NA-241, NA-242, NA-243, NA-244, NA-247, NA-249, NA-251, NA-253, NA-254, NA-255 and NA-256. On National Assembly Constituency NA-243 which became a hotcake for both the MQM and PTI is being led by Imran Ahmad Khan as per the unofficial results of seven polling stations. Khan is leading with 3296 votes while MQM`s Ali Raza is on second position with 1300 votes, he added. On the other hand, MQM-Pakistan claimed to mark victory on the same seats, and said that the polls were manipulated at the instant when process of vote count was initiated. Parties’ agents were stopped to participate in the counting process. It said that a leading position was being given to a specific party (PTI) supported by unseen force by airing imaginary results. “How can any TV channel air election results on the basis of just a few number of polling stations’ vote counts we have not received the unofficial counts of votes till now, “ MQM`s Ameenul Haq. Similarly, sources in Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) claimed to have won National Assembly seats including NA-246, NA-248, NA-236, NA-237 and NA-238 but, it said, the results of the constituencies kept in the custody of the Election Commission staffers. It’s worth mentioning here that political agents representing different political parities, journalists and observers were not allowed by the staff of the Election Commission during counting process. Following the restrictions, unofficial and official results of each constituency were allegedly kept in dark. As per the unofficial results prepared on the vote counts of a few polling stations, PTI and MQM-P are seen neck and neck while on some of the seats it was witnessed on leading position. However, Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) led by former Mustafa despite claim to sweep all constituencies of Karachi failed to show any noteworthy success. MQM-P is on the Karachi election turf for the first time without support of its founder Altaf Hussain. It managed to secure a few in National Assembly seats along with some victory on provincial assembly seats. Moreover, as per the unofficial results of 73 out of 197 polling stations of NA-236, PPP`s Jam Abdul Karim is leading with 28,722 votes while PTI`s Dr Masroor Siyal is second with 8954 votes. In NA-240 MQM`s Iqbal Muhammad Ali is leading with 42580 votes. PTI`s Farrukh Mansoor is second with 2015 votes and MQM-Haqqiqi`s Afaq Ahmed is on third with 1200 votes. NA-243 considered to be the hot seat of Karachi was showing lead of PTI`s Imran Ahmad Khan with 3296votes. Here Ali Raza Abidi is second with 1300 votes as per the results of seven polling stations of the constituency. MQM`s Dr Farooq Sattar was also seen leading with 2557 votes in NA-245 while PTI`s Amir Liaquat is behind with 1129 votes. In NA-246 PPP`s Bilawal Bhutto is in lead with 1754 votes while the opponents PTI`s candidate is on second. The results of NA-249 carried votes counts of 27 out of 257 polling stations shows the lead of PML-Nawaz`s Shahbaz Sharif with 3400 votes, PTI`s Faisal Vawda is on second position with 2555 votes. At 10:00pm, multiple political parties including PPPP, MQM-Pakistan, MMA, PSP leadership showing displeasure over the election process criticised the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). Parties’ leaders talking to the media men separately complained that polling agents were thrown out from the polling station and were not provided with Form-45.