According to the details, 15 candidates are in the run and the Election Commission has finalized arrangements. Six of them are contesting the election from the platform of different political parties and nine are independent.
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Pakistan Army personnel will be deployed inside and outside at all the polling stations of the NA-4, Peshawar-IV by-election. Around five thousand Police personnel will also be deployed to monitor law and order situation in the constituency.
The seat fell vacant due to the death of PTI MNA Gulzar Khan in August this year.
According to an official of ECP, the constituency had total 397,904 registered voters, out of which 235,164 are men while 162,740 are women.
He said that total 269 polling stations including 150 for men, 110 women and 10 combined polling station have been set up for by-election.
The registered voter strength in the constituency is 397, 952, among them 235,127 male and 162,825 females. The Election Commission of Pakistan has established 269.Out of these stations, 39 polling stations will experience electronic voting system for the first time in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
All the major parties of the province have been running extensive campaigns to muster support ahead of the by-polls.
NA-4 is the biggest constituency of Peshawar from where many influential political families draw their strength.
NA-4 was won by PTI candidate Gulzar Khan in 2013 with a total of 55,134 votes. Nasir Khan Mosazai (PML-N), Sabir Hussain Awan (Jamaat-e-Islami) and Arbab Ayub Jan (ANP) followed with 20,412, 16,493 and 15,796 votes, respectively.
The turnout in 2013 polls was recorded at 40.34 percent as 138,555 votes were polled out of which 3,707 were rejected.
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