Pakistan Election 2018 Results In Five Points

Pakistan Election: According to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), there were 3,459 candidates who were contesting for 272 general seats of the National Assembly. While there were 8,396 candidates running for 577 general seats of the four provincial assemblies - Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

A woman casts her vote at a polling station for the parliamentary elections in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, July 25, 2018. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of Pakistan early on Friday announced 95 per cent of the provisional results for the National and four provincial assemblies where PTI has emerged as the single largest party. The result shows some stunning upset results for many influential political parties. They politicians, which include Shahbaz Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, are now likely to come together and cry foul over the way the votes were counted and announced after long delays. Imran Khan's party emerged as the single largest in Pakistan's parliamentary polls bagging 114 of the 270 seats on which elections were held, but fell short of a majority and will need the support of smaller parties or independents to form the government.

1. The PTI won 114 of the 269 seats contested in the National Assembly (NA).
2. Shehbaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) won 62 seats. He had earlier rejected the results, alleging widespread fraud and manipulation.
3. The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) landed on the third place with 43 seats.
4. The Pakistan election commission which issued results for 261 seats. For the remaining 9 seats, the result is still pending as votes are still being counted.
5. Imran Khan’s PTI now falls short of the 137 seats needed for a majority in the National Assembly

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• PTI has won 109 seats in NA, 118 in Punjab, 20 in Sindh, 66 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and four in Balochistan.
• PML-N has bagged 63 in NA, 127 in Punjab, 0 in Sindh, five in KP and just a single seat in Balochistan.
• PPP has won 42 seats in NA, 6 in Punjab, 71 in Sindh, 4 in KP and 0 in Balochistan.

The official results of 20 seats in NA, 6 in Punjab, 11 in Sindh, 2 in KP and 5 in Balochistan are yet to be announced by the ECP. On Wednesday, the voting began at 8: 30 am (IST) and ended at 6:30 pm (IST) at 85,000 polling stations. The counting of votes began on spot soon after polling was concluded. Ahead of the 11th general election polling, Pakistan saw intense campaigning by candidates from key parties - Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan's Peoples Party(PPP). Around 220 million ballot papers were printed for the election. The colour of ballot paper for the National Assembly was green, whereas white coloured paper was used for the Provincial Assembly. In the previous elections, PML-N, led by former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, emerged as the largest party with 166 seats out of a total of 342 in the National Assembly. Sharif was disqualified as the Prime Minister and as a Member of the National Assembly in July last year after the Panama Papers case decision which made Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as the 18th Prime Minister of Pakistan by the National Assembly in August 2017.