Pakistan Election Results: Who's winning, what's next for Imran Khan's party-backed Independents?
Follow Pakistan Election Results 2024 LIVE updates What we know about the Pakistan Election: Elections were held for 265 seats in Pakistan's national assembly. Election to one seat was postponed after the death of a candidate. A political party needs 133 seats for a simple majority.
Overall, 169 seats are needed to secure a simple majority out of its total 336 seats, which include the reserved slots for women and minorities. There were three main parties which contested the polls — Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League (N), (PML-N), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), and Imran Khan's party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Leaders of the PTI contested polls as independent candidates after Pakistan's Supreme Court and the Election Commission said they couldn’t use the party symbol — a cricket bat.
Who is winning the Pakistan Elections? According to Pakistani media Dawn, the results of 245 out of the total 265 National Assembly constituencies were announced by late Friday. The results showed the independent candidates, mostly backed by Imran Khan, in the lead with 99 seats. The PML-N and PPP had won 69 and 52 seats, respectively.
These two parties were set to bag most of the 70 reserved seats for women and non-Muslims in the house, the report said. Who will form the new Pakistan government? PML-N Nawaz Sharif, who is seeking a fourth record term as the prime minister, claimed that his party "emerged as single largest winning party in the country after polls". On Saturday, Geo TV reported that Sharif's party PML-N and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto have agreed to form a coalition government in the Centre and Punjab.
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