MUZAFFARABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Monday won 25 seats in the elections for Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly and emerged as the single largest political party to form its government in the region.
Chief Election Commissioner Abdul Rashid Sulehria said that the result of one constituency, LA-16 Bagh-III, was however withheld as polling in four of its stations could not be held due to rioting and other reasons, adding that re-polling at these stations is most likely to be held before July 29.
Sulehria said Sunday’s polling was “by and large peaceful” except for one tragic incident in Kotli which claimed two lives.
As per the official election results announced by the AJK Election Commission, the party positions of various political parties show that the PTI emerged as the single largest party in the elections by obtaining 613590 votes with the average of 32.05 percent and stood victorious on 25 seats.
On the other hand, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) grabbed 491091 votes with the average of 25.65 percent and won just six seats while the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) obtained 349895 votes with average of 18.28 percent and got 11 seats.
Similarly, the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference secured 153861 votes with the average of 8.04 percent and got just a single seat.
Jammu Kashmir People’s Party acquired 26267 votes with the average of 1.37 percent and succeed in getting one seat.
The 241 independent candidates obtained overall 133136 votes, averaging 6.95 percent, but could not even get a single seat.
The Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) obtained 94487 votes, averaging 4.94 percent, Jamaat-e-Islami secured 28706 votes with the average of 1.5 percent, and other three small political parties got 17000 votes without wining any single seat.
WINNING CANDIDATES:
The PTI candidates who secured victory were Azhar Sadiq (LA-1), Barrister Sultan Mahmood (LA-3), Chaudhry Arshad Hussain (LA-4), Ali Shan Soni (LA-6), Chaudhry Anwaarul Haqi (LA-7), Zafar Iqbal Malik (LA-8), Chaudhry Akhlaque (LA-11) and Ansar Abdali (LA-13) in Mirpur division; Sardar Tanveer Ilyas (LA-15), Abdul Qayyum Niazi (LA-18), Shahida Saghir (LA-22), Sardar Muhammad Hussain (LA-23) and Faheem Akhtar Rabbani (LA-24) in Poonch division; Khawaja Farooq Ahmed (LA-29), Chaudhry Muhammad Rasheed (LA-30), Deevan Ali Chughtai (LA-33), Riaz Ahmed (LA-34), Chaudhry Maqbool Gujjar (LA-35), Hafiz Hamid Raza (LA-36), Muhammad Akmal Sargala (LA-37), Muhammad Akbar Chaudhry (LA-38), Ghulam Mohiuddin Deevan (LA-41), Muhammad Asim Sharif (LA-42), Javed Butt (LA-43) and Abdul Majid Khan (LA-45).
The 11 successful PPP candidates were Chaudhry Qasim Majeed (LA-2), Javed Iqbal Budhanvi (LA-9), Chaudhry Muhammad Yasin (from two constituencies — LA-10 and LA-12), Faisal Rathore (LA-17), Sardar Yaqoob Khan (LA-20), Mian Abdul Waheed (LA-26), Sardar Javaid Ayub (LA-27), Syed Bazil Ali Naqvi (LA-28), Chaudhry Latif Akbar (LA-31) and Aamir Abdul Ghaffar Lone (LA-40).
The PML-N’s successful candidates were Waqar Ahmed Noor (LA-5), Sardar Aamir Altaf (LA-19), Shah Ghulam Qadir (LA-25), Raja Farooq Haider (LA-32), Raja Muhammad Siddique (LA-39) and Ahmed Raza Qadri (LA-44).
Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan of Muslim Conference and Sardar Hassan Ibrahim of Jammu Kashmir People’s Party were elected from LA-14 and LA-21, respectively.
With additional input from APP
