PML-N's Khizar Khagga in pole position to win Sahiwal by-election
Khagga got 40,185 votes while PML-Q and PPP joint candidate Muzzaffar Shah came in second with under 21,000 votes.
SAHIWAL:
Unofficial results of by-polls in Sahiwal, PP-220, have come out with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) candidate Khizar Hayat Khagga taking pole position.
Khagga got 40,185 votes while Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) and Pakistan Peoples Party joint candidate Muzzaffar Shah came in second with a little under 21,000 votes.
Polling in Sahiwal started at eight in the morning as scheduled and ended at five in the evening.
Some polling stations were suspended during the day due to scuffles between opposing parties, but the police were able to calm down the situation.
The seat had been vacated after PML-N’s MPA Walayat Shah Khagga was disqualified by the Lahore High Court for his fake degree.
PML-N then nominated his son Khizir Hayat to contest the by-elections against Muzaffar Shah Khagga.
Earlier on Monday, Senior Federal Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi had said that PML-Q will continue its alliance with the PPP and the two parties will contest the next general elections together.
Elahi said the two parties would support each other’s candidates against PML-N.
Unofficial results of by-polls in Sahiwal, PP-220, have come out with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) candidate Khizar Hayat Khagga taking pole position.
Khagga got 40,185 votes while Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) and Pakistan Peoples Party joint candidate Muzzaffar Shah came in second with a little under 21,000 votes.
Polling in Sahiwal started at eight in the morning as scheduled and ended at five in the evening.
Some polling stations were suspended during the day due to scuffles between opposing parties, but the police were able to calm down the situation.
The seat had been vacated after PML-N’s MPA Walayat Shah Khagga was disqualified by the Lahore High Court for his fake degree.
PML-N then nominated his son Khizir Hayat to contest the by-elections against Muzaffar Shah Khagga.
Earlier on Monday, Senior Federal Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi had said that PML-Q will continue its alliance with the PPP and the two parties will contest the next general elections together.
Elahi said the two parties would support each other’s candidates against PML-N.