Islamabad: LB polls results issued, PML-N gets 20 while PTI gets 16 seats
First local bodies election in the history of Islamabad were held in 50 Union Councils
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Saturday issued the results of local body election in Islamabad. According to the results, Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) got 20 seats while Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf could get 16 seats, reported Dunya News.
The first local bodies election in the history of Islamabad were held in 50 Union Councils (UC). ECP statistics show that PML-N won 20 seats of chairmen UC and vice chairmen UC while PTI could win 16 seats. On the other hand, from 14 UCs chairmen and vice chairmen were independent candidates. PML-N is now in the position to win the mayor-ship of Islamabad with 20 seats. To get the majority position, PML-N has to make 6 independent candidates their ally.
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Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has led the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) by-elections while Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has secured second position.
Voting for the local bodies elections in Islamabad started at 7:00 in the morning and concluded at 5:30 in the evening.
A total number of 6,80,612 registered voters exercised their right to vote in LB elections in the federal capital out of which 3,67,960 are male voters and 3,12,652 female voters. At least 2,396 candidates are contesting for 550 seats in the federal capital of the country.
At least 255 candidates contested for the posts of chairman while 1,210 candidates battled for the general seats. Besides this 351 female candidates competed for the women seats while 248 candidates were in the run for the labour seats.
On the other hand, 230 candidates contested for the youth seats while 102 candidates were in the race for the minority’s seats in today’s LB polls.
Around 640 polling stuations were established out of which 261 were for males and 256 for females. However; 123 polling stations were be shared by both men and women.
Tight security arrangements were made to ensure free, fair and transparent polling. Six hundred and twenty five Army troops and seven hundred personnel of Rangers along with hundreds of police officials were deployed in the capital for the purpose.
