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Nawaz Sharif also urged rival political parties to join hands to form a stable coalition government to rebuild Pakistan.
Updated : Feb 09, 2024, 09:21 PM IST
Pakistan’s election body began announcing the results of the general elections 2024, after parties expressed concern over the delay in declaring them following the poll process marred by sporadic violence and Internet shutdown. Among the first results, the ECP announced the 'winners' of two seats for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial assembly, the Local media reported.
The main contests are expected to be between candidates backed by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, whose Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party won the last national election, and the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) of three-time premier Nawaz Sharif, who is considered the front-runner. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the 35-year-old son of former premier Benazir Bhutto, has also run an aggressive campaign in an outside bid for the top office.
In 2024, more than 128 million Pakistanis aged 18 and above were eligible to vote. The next prime minister of Pakistan will need a simple majority of 169 votes, in the National Assembly, which consists of 336 members. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), led by Imran Khan, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and its prominent figurehead, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), which is fielding former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto as their candidate for prime minister, are the three main political competitors.
(with inputs from PTI)
"We do not have the majority to form government on our own. So, we will invite other parties, that we form a government together," Nazaw Sharif
Former Pakistan PM and Pakistan Muslim League (N) leader Nawaz Sharif says, "We do not have the majority to form government on our own. So, we will invite other parties, that we form a government together...I have assigned this duty to Shehbaz Sharif - meet Asif Zardari,… pic.twitter.com/Lzlpa1Ag5N
— ANI (@ANI) February 9, 2024
Pakistan EC's much-touted new app which was supposed to help officials to quickly tabulate and transmit election results faced significant challenges on Friday as the authorities were moving at a snail's pace to announce the result of the election amid allegations of rigging.
Locals in Lahore, Pakistan, await announcement of general election results.
UN-proscribed terrorist Muhammad Hafiz Saeed's son Talha Saeed has lost out to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed Latif Khosa from Lahore's NA 122 seat as results of counting of votes of the elections held in Pakistan a day ago came in on Friday, local media reported.
Latif Khosa garnered 117,109 votes while Talha Saeed received only 2024 votes. The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Saad Rafique got 77907 votes, as per local media reports.
As results trickled in from the counting of votes in Pakistan general elections, three-time former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's party, the Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) had won 12 seats, Dawn reported. The daily, citing provisional results of the Election Commission of Pakistan, said that independent candidates backed by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) had won 8 seats.
Khan was disqualified from contesting the elections due to criminal convictions, and his supporters contested as independent candidates. Local media outlets in Pakistan today started reporting results of the polls conducted in the national and provincial assemblies that began at 8 am on February 8 and was conducted by 5 pm on the same day. (ANI)
As results to the Pakistan Election face delays amid slow counting of votes, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has alleged that the mandate of people of Pakistan is being stolen. Imran Khan's party said that every independent result showed PTI winning by a landslide despite pre-poll rigging and oppression.
PTI stated that votes of each candidate are tabulated at each polling station on the Form 45. Imran Khan's party emntioned that copies of these forms have been collected by PTI candidate's polling agents, which show them winning by large majority.
Former Pakistan PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi took to X to talk about the general election, for which voting took place on Thursday, saying, “The people of Pakistan have spoken, loudly and clearly; any attempt to manipulate their mandate will result in unsustainable chaos. The heat of the electoral process has passed; it is time to allow the country to heal. The political leadership - Mian Nawaz Sharif, Asif Ali Zardari, Imran Khan, Maulana Fazal ur Rehman, and others - must rise above petty politics and work together to confront the immense challenges our country is facing; they need to recognise that history is not kind to selfish politicians.”
According to Reuters, citing the election body's website, the Election Commission released results for four parliamentary seats as it began to announce the results for the general election. Nawaz Sharif's PML-N and Imran Khan's PTI each won two of these seats.