KPK Local Body Elections: Results start coming out for re-polling in 13 districts
Pakistan
More than 500 polling stations have been setup in total.
PESHAWAR (Dunya News) – The results of re-polling in 13 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) local body elections have started coming out.
Tehsil Chairman Dara Adamkhel:
According to the unofficial results of Kohat Tehsil Chairman Dara Adamkhel, Independent candidate Shahid Bilal won with 2279 votes. Independent candidate Abrar Muhammad Afridi got 1089 votes.
Tehsil Council Khar:
According to the unofficial result of 188 polling stations in Khar Tehsil Council of Bajaur District, Syed Badshah of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam has won with 18,732 votes. Haroon Al-Rasheed of Jamaat-e-Islami got 18,038 votes.
Tehsil Karak:
According to the unofficial results of re-polling at 14 polling stations in tehsil Karak, Azmat Khattak of PTI won with 3578 votes. Abdul Rehman of ANP got 2460 votes. In all, Azmat Khattak got 20,022 votes at 150 polling stations. Abdul Rehman of ANP got 16,219 votes in total.
Chairman Tehsil Council Bara:
JUI-F won the seat of Chairman Tehsil Council Bara. According to unofficial results of re-polling at five polling stations, Independent candidate Abdul Razzaq Afridi got 985 votes. Mufti Muhammad Kafeel of JUI-F got 535 votes and won with a total of 8,075 votes. His opponent Abdul Razzaq Afridi got a total of 7,719 votes.
Chairman Tehsil Council Banda Daud Shah:
According to the unofficial results of four polling stations, Inayatullah Khattak of PTI won with 1,256 vote. Khalid Khattak of JUI-F got 826 votes. Inayatullah Khattak’s total votes turned out to be 14,534. While Khalid Khattak total turned out to be 12,956 votes.
Mayor Peshawar:
Zubair Ali of JUI-F maintained his lead from six polling stations for the seat of Mayor Peshawar in the re-polling election and got 1030 more votes.
In the last election, Zubair Ali got 62,388 votes while his rival Rizwan Bangash of PTI got 50,659 votes. During the re-election, Zubair Ali took the lead with 63,418 votes. While Rizwan Bangash managed to get a total of 51,395 votes by getting 736 votes.
Re-polling in 13 Districts of KPK
According to the Election Commission, the re-polling will be held on seats of City Mayor, Tehsil Chairman, Neighborhood and Village Council seats where the polling had stopped during the first phase of local body elections due to brawl and the deaths of candidates.
The 13 districts include Charsadda, Nowshera, Khyber, Mohmand, Mardan, Kohat, Karak, Bannu, Lakki Marwat, Dera Ismail Khan, Buner, Bajaur and Peshawar. Polling hours will be from 8:00 am till 5:00 pm. While the polling hours in Baka Khel tehsil of Bannu will be from 9:30 am till 5:30 pm.
In all, 302 polling stations and 1039 polling booths have been setup in the the local body election for City Mayor in DI Khan. While the total number of registered voters is 34,4000.
Security arrangements have also been made for the maintenance of law and order on Election Day.
