Official results: MQM secures NA-246 with 95,644 votes
MQM celebrates its victory in the NA-246 by-election. PHOTO: EXPRESS
Declaring Muttahida Qaumi Movement candidate Kanwar Naveed as the winner of the NA-246 by-elections, returning officer Nadeem Haider announced the official poll results on Friday.
According to Haider, Naveed won the polls by a margin of 70,823 votes after getting a total of 95,644 votes. Meanwhile, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Imran Ismail and Jamaat-e-Islami’s Rashid Nasim bagged 24,821 and 9,056 votes, respectively.
The results, announced in the wee hours of Friday morning, said that a total of 131,424 votes were polled out of 357,801 votes registered in the constituency — a turn-out of 36.7 per cent. The number of corrected votes stood at 130,295 as 1,129 votes were rejected.
The returning officer said that Pasban-e-Pakistan’s Usman Moazzam received 93 votes. Meanwhile, from the independent candidates, Aslam Shah secured 78 votes, Ayoub Sultan had 67, Hassan Pervez 209 and Syed Azharul Hussain 64.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 25th, 2015.