By-elections 2024
\nPakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers and supporters celebrated after the party emerged victorious on most National and provincial assembly seats in the April 21 by-elections following the announcement of unofficial results.
\nThe party, according to the unofficial and inconclusive results, claimed at least two out of the five National Assembly seats, while also won 10 out of the 16 seats in the provincial legislatures.
\nPakistan Peoples Party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed Sunni Ittehad Council, Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid has won one seat each in the provincial assemblies.
\nMeanwhile, PML-N\u2019s Adnan Afzal Chattha secured the PP-36 Wazirabad seat from PTI\u2019s Fayyaz Chattha.
\nNA results
\nPTI suffered a major upset, as an independent candidate Mubarak Zeb \u2014 brother of slain independent candidate Rehan Zeb, who was killed before the February 8 general elections \u2014 won from the NA-8 Bajaur constituency defeating its nominee Gul Zafar Khan. Zeb also won the provincial PK-22 seat in Bajaur against Jamaat-e-Islami\u2019s Abid Khan.
\nIn Sindh\u2019s Qamber Shahdadkot, PPP\u2019s Khursheed Junejo won the NA-196 constituency, vacated by party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, by 91,581 defeating Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan\u2019s Muhammad Ali who only received 2763 votes.
\nIn Punjab, the NA-119 seat which was vacated by Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz remained with the party after PML-N\u2019s Ali Pervazi Malik won with 60,918 votes, leaving SIC candidate Shehzad Farooq behind. Farooq could only bag 34,0094 votes.
\nThe ruling party also bagged victory in NA-132 Kasur where Malik Rasheed Ahmed Khan emerged victorious defeating SIC candidate Sardar Muhammad Hussain Dogar. The seat was vacated by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
\nMeanwhile in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur\u2019s brother Faisal Amin won from the NA-44 constituency in Dera Ismail Khan.
\nProvincial assemblies\u2019 results
\nOut of 16 seats that were up for grabs in Sunday\u2019s by-polls, Nawaz Sharif\u2019s party bagged 10 seats, increasing its strength in the provincial legislatures.
\nPM Shehbaz\u2019s vacated PP-164 seat from Lahore was claimed by the PML-N\u2019s Rashid Minhas, who defeated SIC\u2019s Yousuf Meo.
\nMeanwhile in Gujarat, Chaudhry Parvez Elahi was defeated by his nephew, PML-Q\u2019s Musa Elahi on the PP-32 provincial seat.
\nIn PP-139 Sheikhupura, PML-N\u2019s Rana Afzaal Hussain clinched victory against SIC\u2019s Mian ljaz Hussain Bhatti.
\nThe PP-54 Narowal seat was claimed by federal minister Ahsan Iqbal\u2019s son Ahmed Iqbal who defeated SIC\u2019s Awais Qasim.
\nIn Bhakkar\u2019s PP-93, PML-N\u2019s Saeed Akbar Nawani defeated an independent candidate Afzal Dhandla. In PP-147 Lahore, Muhammad Riaz Malik of PML-N defeated independent candidate Muhammad Khan Madani from Lahore.
\nIn PP-149 Lahore, Muhammad Shoaib Siddiqui of the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party emerged victorious against SIC\u2019s Zeeshan Rasheed while PML-N\u2019s Chaudhry Muhammad Nawaz won from Lahore\u2019s PP-158, defeating SIC\u2019s Chaudhry Moonis Elahi.
\nIn Chakwal-cum-Talagang\u2019s PP-22, PML-N\u2019s Falak Sher Awan defeated SIC\u2019s Nisar Ahmad.
\nIn Rahim Yar Khan\u2019s PP-266, PPP\u2019s Mumtaz Ali defeated PML-N\u2019s Muhammad Safdar Khan Leghari.
\nIn PP-290 Dera Ghazi Khan, PML-N\u2019s Ali Ahmad Khan Leghari won against independent candidate Sardar Muhammad Mohiuddin while SIC\u2019s Dawood Shah defeated independent candidate Imtiaz Shahid in PK-91 Kohat.
\nIn Balochistan, Muhammad Zareen Khan Magsi of PML-N defeated independent candidate Shah Nawaz Hasan in the PB-22 Lasbela.
\nIn the PB-20 Khuzdar-III constituency, BAP\u2019s Jehanzeb Mengal is leading with 28,122 votes against independent candidate Shafiq-ur-Rehman Mengal who has gained 19,753 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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