A total of 356 candidates are vying for 25 assembly seats comprising seven National Assembly (NA) and 18 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly seats in Mansehra division.
According to Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) data, there are 91 candidates contending for seven National Assembly seats and 265 candidates vying for 18 seats in the KP Assembly.
Around 3.43 million registered voters in the Mansehra division will elect their representatives for the next five years on February 8. Key contenders in the election feature prominent figures such as former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, former KP Chief Minister, Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan Abbasi and former NA Deputy Speaker, Murtaza Javed Abbasi.
NA-12, encompassing Upper Kohistan, Lower Kohistan and Kolai Palas district, has a total of 196,125 registered voters, with 14 candidates competing for the constituency. As for the KP Assembly, there are 32 candidates contesting for PK-31 Upper Kohistan, 20 candidates for PK-32 Kohistan Lower and 14 candidates for PK-33 Kolai Palas.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 29th, 2024.
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