Polling for NA-4 by-election to be held today
The voting for NA-4-Peshawar will start at 8:00am and will continue till 5:00pm without interval.
PESHAWAR (Dunya News) – Voting for the National Assembly constituency NA-4-Peshawar by-election will be held today (Thursday), Dunya News reported.
The polling will start at 8:00am and will continue till 5:00pm without any interval. At least 14 candidates are in the run for the seat. Of them, five belong to political parties and nine are independents.
The seat fell vacant after the death of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Gulzar Khan who had won this seat in 2013 general election by securing 55,134 votes. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate had secured 20,412 votes and remained second.
A tight contest is expected in the by-election in the constituency. PTI has fielded Arbab Amir Ayub while Nasir Khan is PML-N candidate. Pakistan People’s Party’s Asad Gulzar and Awami National Party’s Khush Dil Khan are also in the run.
There are 352,445 registered voters in the constituency out of which 207,943 are male and 144,502 are female voters who will exercise their right of vote today.
