Vote count underway in violence-marred Sindh LG polls
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Vote count underway in violence-marred Sindh LG polls
KARACHI (Dunya News) - The counting of votes is underway after polling ended for the first phase of local government elections in 14 districts of Sindh that were marred by violence and mismanagement.
The districts where elections were held today are Larkana, Kambar-Shahdadkot, Shikarpur, Jacobabad, Kashmore, Sukkur, Ghotki, Khairpur, Naushehro Feroze, Shaheed Benazirabad, Sanghar, Mirpurkhas, Umerkot and Tharparkar.
The polling began at 8am and the ending time was 5pm 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 2,000 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 reults, 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 preliminary result , Ward No. 8 of Town Committee Kot DG, 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 preliminary 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 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 preliminary results of Ward 6 of the Municipal Committee, JUI candidate Paja 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 nominee 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 the field from Khipro and Birani. PPP won in 13 out of 18 wards of Town Committee Khapro.
Sanghar
A clean sweep was carried out by the PPP from all the five wards of Birani Town Committee.
Moro
According to the complete unofficial preliminary 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.
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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 TLP’s missing voting symbol 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.
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According to the ECP, the total number of registered voters is over 11.4 million and the election commission has printed 2,950,000 ballot papers for the first phase of the LG polls.
Government has deployed over 40,000 policemen across polling stations to maintain law and order while Sindh Rangers is on standby. Carrying of any kind of weapons is 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 are in the field against 5,331 seats.
