NA-4: PTI leads after unaccepted formula of 222 polling stations
Vote counting is underway in Peshawar’s NA-4 by-election after polling came to an finish during 5PM on Thursday.
Polls non-stop in a subdivision during 8AM with electorate casting their ballots during 269 polling stations.
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Thursday had been announced a holiday by a emissary commissioner for a preference of voters.
This is also a initial time that electronic voting machines (EVMs) were tested in an electoral exercise.
According to a Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), 100 polling booths would be regulating a EVMs alongside a primer voting process.
With posters, banners, and promotional element adorning a constituency’s roadways and a campaigning carrying finished dual days prior, a by-election is viewed to be a litmus exam for a statute Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) recognition in a province, generally in light of subsequent year’s ubiquitous elections.
NA-4 by-election: The candidates
As a expectation builds up, here is all we need to know about a categorical possibilities in a contest
The male-to-female ratio of purebred electorate is roughly 3:2.
Six domestic and 8 eccentric possibilities are opposed for a MNA slot; they embody PTI’s Arbab Amir Ayub, Asad Gulzar — late obligatory Gulzar Khan’s son — for Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Awami National Party’s (ANP) Khushdil Khan, Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) Wisal Farooq, Tehreek-e-Labaik’s Allama Shafiq Amini, and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Nasir Khan Moosa Zai.
Apart from 1,400 army personnel, around 4,500 military officials were stationed for confidence in and around a polling stations.
END OF REAL-TIME UPDATES
[17:00 PM]: Polling concludes in NA-4, opinion counting underway
[15:00 PM]: SSP Operations Sajid Khan says 4 people were arrested from Bhana Mari area for displaying firearms.
[13:00 PM]: Provincial Information Minister Shah Farman says no unfavourable occurrence has taken place in a constituency.
[12:00 PM]: High audience being witnessed during several polling stations opposite a constituency
[10:30 AM]: Policeman held casting opinion for someone else in Badbher, according to ANP claimant Khushdil Khan.
[10:00 AM]: Polling underneath approach during Urmar Bala polling station. Long queues of electorate outward a polling station.
[9:30 AM]: Polling staff has not arrived during a polling hire in Qazi Mohalla School, Chamkani. Polling agents are during a site available ECP staff.
[8:00 AM]: The voting routine has commenced in Peshawar and is scheduled to lift on uninterrupted, final during 5pm.
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