PML-N sweeps Punjab in local body polls

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PML-N sweeps Punjab in local body polls

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LAHORE (Web Desk) – Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has swept Punjab in local body elections as winning candidates in all the districts belong to the federally ruling political party.

Meanwhile, PML-N has won at least 25 seats in district councils out of 33 in Punjab.

Following is the list of winning candidates and districts they hail from.

Serial no.	District	Winning candidate	Political party
1	Lahore	Colonel (r) Mubbashir elected unopposed Lord Mayor
2	Multan	Naveed Arain
3	DG Khan	Shahid Hameed Chandiya
4	Bahawalpur	Aqeel Najam Hashmi
5	Sargodha	Malik Aslam Naveed
6	Rawalpindi	Sardar Naseem
7	Sialkot	Tauheed Akhtar
8	Gujranwala	Sheikh Sarwat Ikram
9	Gujrat	Haji Nasir Mehmood
10	Faisalabad	Razzaq Malik
11	Sahiwal	Asad Baloch

Razzaq Malik of Faisalabad secured 11 votes while losing independent candidate, Sheraz Kahlun managed 8 votes. Another independent candidate, Mumtaz Ali Cheema lost the election as he secured 0 votes. Sheikh Sarwat Ikram of Gujranwala clinched victory with 40 votes against independent candidate, Yahya Butt s 10 votes.

In Multan, Malik Adnan Dogar of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) secured 28 votes against 50 votes of PML-N s winning candidate, Chaudhry Naveed Arain.

In Rawalpindi and Sargodha, Sardar Naseem and Malik Aslam Naveed both belonging to PML-N won unopposed.

Zahid Mehmood who contested the election in Bahawalpur against PML-N s as an independent candidate lost after securing 2 votes against winning candidate s 4 votes.

PML-N bagged another two seats unopposed in Punjab as Sialkot s Tauheed Akhtar Chaudhry and Gujrat s Haji Nasir Mehmood won unopposed.

In Dera Ghazi Khan, PML-N s Shahid Hameed won with 8 votes and defeated two independent candidates named Imran Shah and Sardar Sherbaz. Asad Baloch of Sahiwal from PML-N also won unopposed.

Following are details about metropolitan seat, seats in district councils Punjab, seats in municipal corporation Punjab and those in municipal committee Punjab: