Pakistan Election of Pakistan (ECP) has released the schedule of by-election in NA-193 Jampur.
According to the schedule, the polling would be held on Febraury 26. Nomination papers will be accepted till Jan 19 and final list would be released Jan 22. The seat fell vacant due to the death of PTI MNA Sardar Jaffar Laghari .
It is pertinent to mention here, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has managed to win six out of eight National Assembly (NA) seats that were up for grabs in the by-elections held in three provinces on October 16.
In seven NA seats, PTI chief Imran Khan was contesting the election against candidates of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) coalition and other independent contestants.
Khan’s decision to contest these seats himself was aimed at not only preventing the ruling coalition from winning these seats but also to make the point that he is the only national leader who is capable of winning from anywhere in Pakistan. However, in his attempt to prove that brand Imran Khan remains the first choice of the electorate, the PTI chairman may have exposed his party’s several weaknesses.
The results of Sunday’s electoral exercise suggest that Khan’s reliance on conspiracy theories to prepare the Pakistani nation for some sort of electoral revolution, which involves him coming back to power, has been proven wrong.
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The election didn’t offer Khan a thumping win: in almost all constituencies where Khan won, the opponents put up a strong fight.
For instance, in the NA-22 Mardan by-election, Khan secured 76,681 votes while the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) candidate Muhammad Qasim stood second with 68,181 votes. In NA-24 Charsadda II, Khan won by acquiring 78,589 votes while his opponent from the Awami National Party (ANP) Aimal Wali Khan secured 68,356 votes.
The results are more or less similar in other constituencies where Khan contested. In a constituency in Karachi, the PPP candidate Abdul Hakim Baloch won by obtaining 32,567 votes, while Khan secured 22,493.
