MUZAFFARABAD/LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) candidate Sardar Ziaul Qamar on Thursday came out the winner in Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s (AJK) LA-15 by-election, the unofficial result suggested, according to The News.
The PPP and PML-N, which are allies in the centre, are among several others vying for the seat that fell vacant after Ilyas was disqualified over contempt.
After the counting of 189 polling stations, Qamar is leading with 25,755 votes, leaving behind the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Mushtaq Minhas, who has secured 20,485 votes so far.
The seat fell vacant after the AJK High Court disqualified former AJK PM Sardar Tanvir Ilyas, who had won the 2018 election with 20,010 votes.
Eighteen candidates are contesting the election, including PTI’s colonel (retd) Zamir and others.
The number of registered voters is 101,145 with male voters standing at 53,107 and female voters at 48,038.
PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari congratulated PPP candidate Qamar for winning the by-election in LA-15, Bagh, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, by defeating the former minister and PML-N candidate Minhas.
Asif Ali Zardari, co-chair of the PPP, congratulated Qamar, the party’s candidate, on his triumph in the LA-15 by-election in Bagh, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, over Minhas, a former minister and PML-N candidate.
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