GUJRANWALA (Dunya News) - The by-election for a National Assembly seat (NA-77) will be held on Sunday (today) with 11 candidates in the race.
This seat fell vacant due to the death of PML-N MNA Mahmood Bashir Virk.
As many as 518,620 registered voters will exercise their franchise in the constituency, including 277,480 male and 241,140 female voters.
As many as 333 polling stations have been set up for the by-election, including 142 male, 137 female, and 54 combined polling stations.
A total of 963 polling booths have been set up in NA-77, of which 536 are for men and 427 for women.
Rashid Bashir Virk of the Muslim League-N, Muhammad Ibrahim Gujjar of the Central Muslim League, and Tayyab Mahmood of the Pakistan Ideological Party are in the fray, while independent candidates Ulfat Rasool Warraich and Manzoor Qadir Bhinder are also contesting the election.
The constituency includes important areas including Gujranwala Cantt, Qila Deedar Singh, Rahwali and Ludhiana Warraich. The main problems of the constituency include broken roads, health and education facilities, clean water and sewage.
In the 2024 general elections, Mahmood Bashir Virk won with 109,704 votes, while Rashida Tariq came in second with 91,825 votes. There was a difference of 17,879 votes between the two candidates.