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Senate polls in KP Assembly peacefully end

F.P. Report

PESHAWAR): The Senate Election in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly concluded peacefully, amidst tight  security in and around Provincial Assembly Building with a total of 122 voters exercised their right in the Senate Election-2018 here on Saturday.

The election started at 9.00 a.m the morning and without any break it concluded at  4.00 p.m.

MPA Zia Ullah Afridi had polled the first vote, followed by Lutuf-ur-Rehman while the  name of Baldev Kumar is not in the voter list and another MPA from Swat has been  disqualified by the court recently so out of 124 votes 122 votes were polled. The  last vote was polled by Muhammad Ali of Jamaat-e-Islami.

As per the Election Commission of Pakistan a total of 24 candidatures are in run  for the 11 vacant seats. The successful 11 candidatures will represent KP in the Upper  House of the Parliament. In KP there are 12 candidatures are contesting for 7 general  seats, five are in run for the two seats for Technocrats and seven are contesting for  two female seats.

Over all 132 candidates are contesting for 52 senate seats in the Upper House of  the Parliament with 11 seats each from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, 12 seats each  of Punjab and Sindh,  4 seats from FATA and 2 seats from Islamabad.

 

The Frontier Post

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