Election 2018: Recounting of votes continues in NA-108 Faisalabad
Recounting was started on the plea of PML-N candidate Abid Sher Ali.
LAHROE (Dunya News) – The process of recounting of votes still underway on Sunday, in NA-108 constituency of Faisalabad.
The recounting was started on the plea of PML-N candidate Abid Sher Ali who secured 111529 votes and stood second while PTI’s Farrukh Habib bagged 112740 votes.
It is to be mentioned here that the number of rejected votes in the NA-108 constituency is 5177.
General Election 2018
On Wednesday, millions of Pakistanis voted to elect a new government and prime minister in a peaceful elections held in free, fair and transparent manner.
Around 800,000 police and military forces were stationed at more than 85,000 polling stations across the country as the voting took place.
Wednesday’s election was only the second democratic transition of power in Pakistan’s 70-year coup-studded history.
Pakistan is a country of approximately 207 million people, out of which the number of registered voters are about 106 million.
The voting for the Pakistan election, which took place between 8:00 am local time (8:30 am IST) and 6:00 pm (6:30 pm IST), saw more than 3,000 candidates contesting for 272 general seats of the National Assembly, while some 8,000 candidates ran for 577 general seats of the four provincial assemblies - Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Balochistan.
