PTI wins Hangu by-election

PTI’s Dr Nadeem Khayal secures 20,772 votes, JUI-F’s Mufti Obaidullah bags 18,244 votes

ISLAMABAD:

 

In its first election since ouster from power, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) won a National Assembly (NA) seat from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P) Hangu district on Sunday.

According to Express News, the former ruling party’s candidate Dr Nadeem Khayal emerged victorious with 20,772 votes in the final and official results of all 210 polling stations in NA-133.

According to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl’s (JUI-F) Mufti Obaidullah came second with 18,244 votes while Awami National Party’s (ANP) candidate Saeed Umar came third in 3,314 votes.

Polling started at 8am and went on till 5pm without any break. No untoward incident took place during the election.

A central control room was set up in ECP to monitor the election, which was supervised by the chief election commissioner and ECP secretary from Islamabad.

According to ECP, over 318,000 voters were registered in the constituency, where 210 polling stations were set up for them. 64 of these polling stations were for men, 55 for women and 91 were joint. 110 of these polling stations were declared sensitive and 77 highly sensitive.

The victorious candidate in Sunday’s poll is the son of the late PTI leader Khayal Zaman, whose death vacated the seat.