Reserved seats: Poll symbols allotted to candidates

FAISALABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Sunday issued election symbols for candidates contesting the local government elections on reserved seats of the Faisalabad Municipal Corporation and the district council. A spokesman of the ECP said there were 76 seats in the municipal corporation and district council Faisalabad. He said 217 candidates would contest the election on February 8. He said the ECP had turned down applications of 43 candidates and two others had withdrawn their nominations.  He said 137 candidates would contest the election to 37 seats of the municipal corporation. He said 82 candidates were in the run for 39 seats of the district council.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 1^st,  2016.