[🇵🇰] Pakistan General Elections -- 2024

ghazi · Feb 8, 2024

NA Party Candidates by Province
Party	Punjab	Sindh	KP	BA	ICT	Total
PML-N	131	25	35	14	2	207
PPPP	126	59	41	14	3	243
IPP	15	8	0	0	0	23
JI	123	51	42	11	3	230
JUI	48	21	41	14	2	126
MQM	23	44	2	7	2	78
TLP	135	52	20	9	3	219
IND-	140	52	44	12	3	251
ANP	6	12	33	9	2	62
IND	1724	658	372	228	80	3062
Others	283	166	91	116	19	675
Total	2754	1148	721	434	119	5176

ghazi · Feb 8, 2024

Hours after polling, nation awaits final results of elections

Feb 09, 2024

Despite polling concluding at 5pm in the general elections on Thursday, the nation is waiting for the results after more than seven hours have passed at midnight. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has not given any reason leading to expression of suspicions from contesting parties.

State TV, private channels, and local media initiated the process of announcing results, but progress has been slow, with results from certain constituencies in Sindh and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa still pending.

Although results are coming in from interior Sindh, the results in the provincial capital and the country's largest city, Karachi, are emerging at a slow pace.

Similarly, in the largest province of the country, Punjab, results are also being received slowly. The wait for results is ongoing from K-P and Balochistan. Concerns and reservations have been expressed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf regarding this delay.

ghazi · Feb 8, 2024

ghazi · Feb 8, 2024

PTI to form next govt: Hammad

Feb 09, 01:15

PTI leader Hammad Azhar has said that the majority of candidates backed by his party are leading in many constituencies across the country, asserting that PTI will form the next government and Imran Khan will be the prime minister.

“First of all, I want to congratulate all the voters and workers of PTI, as well as the people of Pakistan. Despite all the fear and atrocities, you all came out and exercised your democratic right,” he said in a video message.

ghazi · Feb 8, 2024

ghazi · Feb 8, 2024

ghazi · Feb 8, 2024

ghazi · Feb 8, 2024

READ: Section 84 of Election Rules, 2017

Section 84 of the Election Rules, 2017 outlines the procedure for the announcement of provisional results.

The announcement of the results is still being awaited hours after polling ended at 5pm on Friday for the general elections 2024.

The section is reproduced below:

(1) The returning officer (RO) shall prepare the provisional consolidated statement of results of the count (excluding postal ballots) of the constituency, as required under section 92, in Form-47 on the basis of the results of the count received by him from presiding officers (PO) electronically under sub-section (2) of section 13 or personally whichever is earlier.
(2) The RO shall make sure that result of the count furnished by PO is arithmetically error-free before accepting the same.
(3) In case, the RO finds any error in the form, he shall ask the PO to rectify the error and sign the same in token of the fact that the error has been corrected by the PO himself:
Provided that in the event of correction of form under this subrule, the PO shall resend electronically the scanned copy of the corrected form to the commission:
Provided further that the RO shall keep copy of the said corrected Form and also place the same in the relevant packet.
(4) After preparing the provisional consolidated statement of results of the count under sub-rule (1), the RO shall announce the same in the presence of such of the candidates, their election agents or authorised observers as may be present and shall affix a copy of such results at a conspicuous place in his office for information of general public:
Provided that the RO shall forthwith communicate the scanned copy of the Form-47 containing provisional results to the commission electronically on or before 2am the day immediately following the polling day and if, for any reason, the results are incomplete by 2am on the day immediately following the polling day, the RO shall communicate to the commission provisional results as consolidated till that time along with reasons for the delay, in writing, while listing the polling stations from which results are awaited and thereafter shall send the complete provisional results as soon as compiled but not later than 10am
Provided that where the RO forward a case against the defaulting presiding officer(s) that delivery of result has been inordinately delayed, the commission shall initiate disciplinary proceedings under Section 54 and 55 of the Act and remunerations due to presiding officer(s) shall be withheld and in case it is already paid shall be recoverable from his salary.