PPP leads in Sindh LG elections as unofficial results pour in

PPP is leading with 2,288 seats, GDA is second with 65 seats and JUI-F is third with 43 seats.

KARACHI (Dunya News) - According to unofficial results, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is leading in the first phase of local government (LG) elections held in 14 districts of Sindh on Sunday, Dunya News reported.

As per unofficial results of 2,455 seats out of total 6,277 seats announced so far, the PPP is leading with 2,288 seats. Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) is second with 65 seats while Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) is third with 43 seats.

According to unofficial results, Independents are fourth with 40 seats. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf managed to get 13 seats so far. In Sindh LG polls 946 candidates have been elected unopposed.

The districts where elections were held on Sunday are Larkana, Kambar-Shahdadkot, Shikarpur, Jacobabad, Kashmore, Sukkur, Ghotki, Khairpur, Naushehro Feroze, Shaheed Benazirabad, Sanghar, Mirpurkhas, Umerkot and Tharparkar.

The polling began at 8:00am and the ended at 5:00pm but in several districts polling was stopped due to clashes.

Unofficial results

In Sindh LG polls 946 candidates have been elected unopposed while out of 6,277 seats, results of more than 2,455 have been received, according to which PPP is at the top, GDA is second, JUI is third, Independent is fourth and PTI is on the fifth spot.

Kashmore

According to the unofficial results, Independent candidate Mehrab Ali Mazari won with 37 votes, while Jamaat-e-Islami candidate Obaidullah came second with 18 votes.

Town Committee Guddu’s Ward 8, the SUP candidate won with 50 votes, while the PPP candidate Zubair Ahmed came second with 49 votes.

Khairpur

According to the complete unofficial result, Ward No. 8 of Town Committee Kot Diji, GDA candidate Mir Dunal Talpur won with 954 votes, while PPP candidate Syed Anwar Ali Shah came second with 348 votes.

Khairpur Municipal Committee Ward No. 15, PPP’s Ghulam Hussain Mughal won with 1304 votes and the independent candidate Mansoor Iqbal Sheikh came second with 408 votes.

Municipal Committee Ward 17, PPP candidate Asghar Sheikh won with 1149 votes, while independent candidate Majeed Sheikh came second with 356 votes.

Shahdad Kot

According to the complete unofficial result of Municipal Committee Ward No. 3, PPP candidate Tariq Hussain Brohi won with 272 votes and the independent candidate Dilawar Khan Khoso came second with 147 votes.

Kandiaro

According to the unofficial and unconfirmed results of the polling station of Ward 11 of Town Committee Kandiaro, Akram Qureshi of PPP won with 650 votes and the JUI-F candidate Ataullah came second with 550 votes.

Naukot

According to the unofficial preliminary results of Town Committee Ward No. 6, independent candidate Irfan Khurshid won with 384 votes, while PPP’s Barkat Korai came second with 203 votes.

Pano Aqil

According to the unofficial results of Ward 6 of the Municipal Committee, JUI-F candidate Raja Ram won with 147 votes, while PPP candidate Abdul Jabbar Sheikh came second with 83 votes.

Jacobabad

According to the complete unofficial result of Municipal Committee Ward No. 04, PTI candidate Ghulam Hussain Imrani won with 388 votes, while PPP’s Noor Mohammad Dharpali came second with 380 votes.

Municipal Committee Ward No. 5, Ghous Bakhsh Maghri of PPP won with 1359 votes, while independent candidate Munawar Soomro secured second spot with 439 votes.

Municipal Committee Ward No. 16, PPP candidate Muhammad Asif Maghri won with 1354 votes, while TLP candidate came second with 282 votes.

Khipro

PPP took most of the seats in Khipro. PPP won in 13 out of 18 wards of Town Committee Khipro.

Sanghar

The PPP completed a clean sweep in Birani and registered victory in all the five wards of Birani Town Committee.

Moro

According to the complete unofficial results of Municipal Committee Ward No. 3, Jan Alam of PPP won with 630 votes.

Wara

According to the complete unofficial results of Town Committee Ward No. 10, independent candidate Oshaq Chandio won with 290 votes, while PPP candidate Bashir Ahmed Chandio came second with 270 votes.

Kunri

According to the complete unofficial preliminary results of Town Committee Ward No. 2, the PPP-backed candidate Sajid Aziz won with 853 votes, while the Tehreek-e-Labaik (TLP) candidate came second with 150 votes.

Town Committee Ward No. 7 Gharibabad, PPP-backed candidate Ghulam Hussain Dars won with 311 votes, while Tehreek-e-Libek candidate Noor Mohammad came second with 133 votes.

Larkana

Pakistan People’s Party won from Municipal Committee Naudero in all 7 wards.

Clashes erupt at several polling stations

Kandhkot: Clashes erupted between JUI-F and PPP workers in ward 10. Thirty people were injured as they attacked each other with sticks while several vehicles also got damaged.

In a separate incident, gunmen stormed Tori Bungalow at UC Dari polling station in Kandhkot and abducted ten members of the election staff.

Nawab Shah: Polling was stopped due to a commotion at Nadir Shah Dispensary polling station. The TLP candidate and voters protested over the missing voting symbol of TLP on the ballot paper.

In another incident, armed men stormed three polling stations of UC8 and took the ballot papers with them, causing delay in the electoral process.

Two persons killed in Rohri, Tando Adam

During the local body elections in Sindh, a man was shot dead at Dabar polling station in Rohri while a man was killed in Tando Adam.

Election postponed in few wards over misprinting of ballot papers

The local body elections were postponed in a few wards due to misprinting (typographical error) of the names of candidates in the ballot papers confirmed a spokesperson of the ECP.

He maintained that the ECP will issue a new schedule for elections on the seats. The spokesperson said that the ECP has launched an inquiry in this regard.

According to the ECP, the total number of registered voters in the 14 districts of Sindh was over 11.4 million and the election commission had printed 2,950,000 ballot papers for the first phase of the LG polls.

Government had deployed over 40,000 policemen across polling stations to maintain law and order while Sindh Rangers were also on standby. Carrying of any kind of weapons was also prohibited under section 144.

It is worth mentioning here that at least 946 candidates from 14 districts had been elected unopposed while at least 21,298 candidates were in the field against 5,331 seats.