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NA-120: RO Announces Provisional Results

Lahore (September 18, 2017): The Returning Officer has announced the provincial results of the by-election in National Assembly NA-120 constituency according to which Pakistan Muslim League’s candidate Kulsoom Nawaz won the polls beating her closet rival of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s candidate Dr. Yasmin Rashid by 14,646 votes.

According to the unofficial and unverified results wife of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif Kulsoom Nawaz secured 61,745 votes while Dr. Yasmin Rashid bagged 47,099 votes. Independent candidate Shaikh Azhar Hussain was the third top vote-getter with 7,130 votes followed by Milli Muslim League’s candidate with 5,822 votes while Pakistan Peoples Party’s candidate bagged 1,414 votes. Jamaat-e-Islami candidate secured 592 votes.

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The total number of registered voters in the constituency was 321,786 of which 126,860 cast their votes which translates into a voter turnout of 39.42 percent. A total of 80,944 men voters and 45,916 women voters caste the votes.The Election Commission Pakistan will formally notify the final result tomorrow September 19 in Islamabad.

The seat which was left vacant by the disqualification of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif by the Supreme Court in the Panama case verdict.

Addressing the party workers, supporters and sympathizers after the winning  provisional results daughter of Nawaz Sharif Maryam Nawaz who ran her mother’s electoral campaign in the constituency which Pakistan Muslim League has held for last three decades said that voters rejected the Supreme Court’s judgment [disqualifying Nawaz Sharif] but have also rejected the court’s spokesmen [chief of PTI Imran Khan].Speaking from the same balcony in Model Town from which Nawaz Sharif had given his victory speech in 2013, Maryam further said that  voters have given a decision on a decision that their prime minister is still Nawaz Sharif.”Thanking the workers, voters, and supporters she also alleged that PML-N workers, including a union council (UC) chairman, were picked up and threatened by unknown persons before the elections. However, she said that all UC chairmen remained steadfast and gave her hope when she called them last night.

Saying that people could not be stopped with these tactics Maryam warned those conspiring against the PML-N without naming anyone. She also thanked the supporters on behalf of Kulsoom and Nawaz Sharif.

Meanwhile, PTI Chairman Imran Khan thanked party workers, especially women, “who worked tirelessly in the election campaign,” in a Twitter message. Applaud courage and determination with which Dr Yasmin Rashid fought NA-120 election against federal, provincial and local government backed PML-N with their massive funds, he added.

Meanwhile, PTI candidate Dr. Yasmin Rashid vowed to approach court against the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) over alleged registration of 29,000 bogus votes in NA-120.

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