GILGIT-BALTISTAN : Gilgit-Baltistan elections on Sunday concluded largely peacefully. People took part in the elections enthusiastically. Preliminary unofficial results show that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is taking a lead with nine seats in its bag.
According to unconfirmed and unofficial results of 18 out of 24 seats so far, PPP has won nine seats, independent candidates (IND) have won six , and Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) two and Majlis-e-Wahdat Muslimeen (MWM) has one seat.
The PPP won in GBA 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 19 of the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly, while the PML-N won in GBA 22, MWM in GBA 8, and independent candidates won in GBA 3, 23 and 24.
According to the unofficial results of 76 out of 80 polling stations in GBA-1 Gilgit-1 constituency, Pakistan Peoples Party’s Amjad Hussain is in first place with 10,490 votes, while Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Muhammad Shafiquddin is in second place with 6,245 votes.
According to the unofficial results of 27 out of 91 polling stations in GBA-2 Gilgit-2 constituency, Pakistan Muslim League (N)’s Hafeez-ur-Rehman is in first place with 4,129 votes, while Pakistan People’s Party’s Jamil Ahmed is in second place with 2,695 votes.
According to the unofficial results of all 53 polling stations in GBA 4 Nagar 1 constituency, Pakistan Peoples Party’s Muhammad Ali Akhtar won with 7,530 votes, while Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Muhammad Ayub Waziri came in second with 6,491 votes.
According to the unofficial results of 15 out of 32 polling stations in GBA 5 Nagar 2 constituency, independent candidate Jahangir Shah is in first place with 1108 votes, while Pakistan Muslim League (N)’s Javed Ali Manwa is in second place with 838 votes.
According to the unofficial results of 77 out of 88 polling stations in GBA-6 Hunza constituency, independent candidate Neknam Karim is in first place with 5,612 votes, while Imtiaz-ul-Haq of the Pakistan Peoples Party is in second place with 4,540 votes.
According to the unofficial results of all 31 polling stations in GBA 7 Skardu 1, Syed Tauqir Mehdi of the Pakistan Peoples Party won by securing 4,337 votes, while Raja Jalal Hussain Khan of the Utsharq Pakistan Party came in second with 3,891 votes.
According to the unofficial results of all 70 polling stations in GBA-8 Skardu-2, Majlis-e-Wahdat Muslimeen’s Muhammad Kazim won with 10,474 votes, while PPP’s Syed Muhammad Ali Shah came in second with 10,118 votes.
According to the unofficial results of all 54 polling stations in GBA 9 Skardu 3 constituency, Pakistan Peoples Party’s Fida Muhammad Nashad won with 6314 votes, while independent candidate Wazir Muhammad Saleem came in second with 6106 votes.
According to the unofficial results of all 51 polling stations in GBA-10 Skardu-4, PPP’s Nasir Ali Khan won by securing 6,582 votes, while Wazir Muhammad Khan of the Stability Pakistan Party is in second place with 4,667 votes.
According to the unofficial results of 11 out of 51 polling stations in GBA-11 Kharmang constituency, Pakistan People’s Party’s Iqbal Hassan is in first place with 1,607 votes, while independent candidate Shujaat Hussain is in second place with 897 votes.
According to the unofficial results of all 71 polling stations in GBA-12 Sugar constituency, Imran Nadeem of the PPP won by securing 12,944 votes, while Raja Muhammad Azam Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf came in second with 8,682 votes.
According to the unofficial results of 36 out of 57 polling stations in GBA 13 Astore 1 constituency, Pakistan Muslim League (N)’s Rana Farman Ali is in first place with 4,368 votes, while independent candidate Shahida is in second place with 4,312 votes.
According to the unofficial results of 35 out of 51 polling stations in GBA-14 Astore 2 constituency, Pakistan Muslim League (N)’s Rana Muhammad Farooq is in first place with 4,300 votes, while Shamsul-ul-Haq Lone of the Utsharq Pakistan Party is in second place with 3,865 votes.
According to the unofficial results of 11 out of 51 polling stations in GBA-15 Diamer-1, independent candidate Muhammad Dilpazir is in first place with 1,426 votes, while Wali-ur-Rehman of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) is in second place with 996 votes.
