ECP Releases Official Pakistan General Elections 2018 Results, PTI leads with 115 NA Seats

Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) finally released the official results of the 11th General election of Pakistan which held on 25th July 2018. It almost took 56 hours to announce the final stats in which ECP confirms the victory of Pakistan Threek-e-Insaf and the overall figure showed that this political party is the largest political party in Pakistan right now.

According to the official announcement of ECP, out of 270 seats, Pakistan Threek-e-Insaf has won 115 seats of National Assembly. To make the government PTI still relay on independent seats because according to law one member can only take one seat and has to give up other seats. Few of the members contested from multiple seats but they need to give them up and only take one, for that PTI will collaborate with independent candidates and other parties as well like PML-Q, BAP, and GDA.

Pakistan Muslim League-N got 64 seats in the National Assembly and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) got 43 seats. On the other hand, Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) got 12 seats and MQM-P got only 6 seats. Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) has won 4 seats while Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) won only 2 seats. Awami National Party (ANP) got one seat while 13 independents candidates also played the role in National Assembly.

Punjab Assembly

For decades, PML-N has ruled Punjab and stood as the largest party there. In 2018 General election PML-N has won 129 seats out of 295 of the provincial assembly of Punjab. But now PTI is much closer to them by winning 123 seats and could be exceeded to 28 seats with the help of independent candidates. After these two competitors, PML-Q is the third one who got 7 seats and PPP got 6 seats of Punjab provincial assembly.

Sindh Assembly

Out of 130 seats of Sindh assembly, Pakistan People’s Party has won 76 seats of the house and stood as the first party of Sindh. While MQM-P has got 23 seats and GDA has won 11 seats of the house. Threek-e-Labbaik, who is the new political party, managed 2 seats while MMA only got one seat.

KPK Assembly

Pakistan Threek-e-Insaf clean sweeps in the provincial assembly and got 66 seats out of 97 and this surprised everyone. While MMA managed to be the second party in KPK assembly and got 10 seats. ANP has won 6 seats and on the other side PPP has got 4 seats in KPK house, there are also 6 independents who won in KPK provincial assembly.

Balochistan Assembly

Balochistan Awami Party has won 15 provincial seats while BNP got 6 seats, BNP-Awami got 3 seats and Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) got 2 seats in the provincial assembly and PTI only got 4 seats out there. PkMAP won only one seat and PML-n and JWP also got one seat in this assembly. There are also 5 independent candidates who won the berths.

This article was written by staff member: Sehrish Ilyas

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