PML-N grabs 4 NA, 8 PA seats from Sialkot
PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif addressing an election rally in Faisalabad on Friday, February 2, 2024. SCREENGRAB
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has won four of the five National Assembly seats and eight of the 10 Punjab Assembly seats from Sialkot district in the elections held on Thursday.
According the unofficial results, in NA-70, Sialkot-I, PML-N candidate Armughan Subhani won the elections by securing 123,437 votes. The runner up was independent candidate Hafiz Hamid Raza with 112,117 votes. The voter turnout remained 52.6 per cent.
In NA-71, Sialkot-II, PML-N leader Khawaja Muhammad Asif won by securing 118,566 votes, while independent candidate Rehana Imtiaz Dar was the runner up with 100,272 votes. The turnout in the constituency was 43.54%.
In NA-72, Sialkot-III, PML-N candidate Ali Zahid won the National Assembly election by securing 110,190 votes, followed by independent candidate Amjad Ali Bajwa who bagged 103,792 votes. The voter turnout remained 50.76 %.
In NA-73, Sialkot-IV, also, PML-N candidate Nosheen Iftikhar won by securing 112,143 votes. According to unofficial result, the runner up was Ali Asjad Malhi, an independent candidate, who bagged 104,067 votes, and the turnout remained 48.41 %.
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In NA-74-Sialkot-V, independent candidate Muhammed Aslam Ghumman won the National Assembly election by securing 130,504 votes, while Rana Shamim Ahmed Khan of PML-N bagged 95,988 votes. The voter turnout in the constituency was 49.2 %.
In the Punjab Assembly constituency, PP-44, PML-N’s Arif Iqbal won by securing 46,308 votes, while the runner up was independent candidate Saeed Ahmed Bhalli with 40,425 votes. In PP-45, PML-N’s Tariq Subhani won with 63,651 votes, followed by independent candidate Umer Javed Ghumman with 52,859 votes.
In PP-46, PML-N candidate Faisal Ikram won by securing votes 55,254, while independent candidate Ruba Umer bagged 47,924 votes. In PP-47, PML-N candidate Khawaja Muhammad Mansha Ullah Butt won by securing 50,602 votes, while the runner up was independent candidate Muhammed Kashif who bagged 44,890 votes.
PP-48 was won by independent candidate Khurram Virk, PP-49 Rana Fiaz, PP-50 by PML-N’s Chaudhry Naveed, PP-51 Zeeshan Rafique, PP-52 Arshad Javed Warraich and PP-53 Rana Abdul Sattar.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 10th 2024.