LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has won a simple majority in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly elections, according to unofficial and unconfirmed results, after which it is in a position to form a single government.
According to the details, unconfirmed unofficial results of 44 out of 45 seats in the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly have come out, according to which PTI is at the first position with 25 seats while PPP has become the second largest party with 11 seats. According to unofficial results, the PML-N won six seats while the Muslim Conference and the Jammu and Kashmir People’s Party won one seat each.
Barristers Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry, Khawaja Ahmad Farooq, Sardar Tanveer Ilyas, Dewan Khan Chughtai, Chaudhry Arshad and Chaudhry. Anwar-ul-Haq won his seats. Azad Kashmir Prime Minister and PML-N candidate Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider won from LA-32 while he lost in the second seat LA-33 Muzaffarabad.
On the other hand, Special Assistant Shahbaz Gul in a tweet announcing the victory said that his party has won 26 seats.
The Secretary Election Commission has said that three or four polling stations are disputed, except for Sharqi Bagh, the results are clear in all the remaining constituencies. The decision on re-polling at disputed polling stations will be taken today.
It is to be noted that 724 candidates were contesting for 45 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Azad Kashmir, polling was held in 33 seats in Azad Kashmir while Kashmiris residing in other provinces of Pakistan exercised their franchise on the quota of refugees for the other 12 seats. Twelve hundred and nineteen polling stations were declared sensitive.
