ISLAMABAD: The by-elections will take place in six National Assembly and seven Punjab Assembly constituencies today with strict security measures put in place to ensure peaceful voting.
Preparations are in place in Haripur, Lahore, Faisalabad, Sahiwal, Dera Ghazi Khan, Sargodha, Mianwali, and Muzaffargarh, while the election materials have been dispatched to all the stations concerned.
Voting will be from 8 AM to 5 PM when citizens will cast their votes for the candidates of their choice.
In total, 2,792 polling stations have been established:
408 highly sensitive ones have been identified
1,032 have been declared sensitive
The security has been beefed up with more than 20,000 personnel taking positions in the constituencies.
Key Constituencies
NA-18 Haripur
There are 9 candidates in the fray. PTI-supported independent candidate Shehrnaz, PML-N’s Babar Nawaz Khan, and PPP’s Irum Fatima are expected to be a close competition of each other for the votes of the electorate.
The seat of a constituency where the disqualification of PTI’s Omar Ayub in the May 9 case made it necessary that the NA-18 be vacated.
NA-96 Faisalabad
There are 16 candidates including those that have been nominated by PML-N, PPP, and several independents. in the race.
The area has 372,133 male voters and 272,991 female voters.
NA-104 Faisalabad
Five candidates were contesting in the constituency, among them the PML-N’s Raja Daniyal and the independent Rana Adnan Javed.
This is a constituency where 557,637 voters are registered to cast their ballots.
NA-129 Lahore
PML-N’s Hafiz Muhammad Nauman, and independents Bajash Khan Niazi and Arslan Ahmed are the candidates between whom a close contest can be forecasted.
Altogether 334 polling stations have been set up out of which 70 are combined polling stations.
The seat was vacated due to the death of Mian Azhar.
NA-143 Sahiwal
The NA-143 Sahiwal constituency with the largest electorates will most likely see the tough contest between PML-N candidate and a PTI-supported candidate.
There are 584,698 voters registered in this constituency.
NA-185 Dera Ghazi Khan
Three parties PML-N, PPP, and JUI with their respective candidates are in a strong contest to one another.
This area in which a fierce competition is anticipated.
The Election Commission of Punjab stated that the delivery of election materials to 12 constituencies had been completed and that everything presiding officers might require had been handed to them.
Voting will remain uninterrupted from 8 AM to 5 PM with a strong security presence.
The voters have been advised to vote without any fear.
After the PPP and all other candidates withdrew, Bilal Farooq Tarar of PML-N in NA-66 Wazirabad has been elected unopposed.
