MUZAFFARABAD
Polling for the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly has ended and counting of votes underway till the filing of the report..
The polling started at 8 am and continued till 5 pm without any break. Over 40 thousand security personals including PAK Army, FC, Rangers & Police performed duties to ensure peaceful polling.
Unofficial and unconfirmed results of a large number of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly seats have been received as more are pouring in.
Unofficial results show that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has won 13 seats thus far and leading in 12 constituencies in Azad Jammu and Kashmir Elections 2021. The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has won three seats followed by PPP with two seats and Muslim Conference has so far won one seat in the hotly contested AJK elections 2021.
AJK has a total of 3.2 million voters, out of which 1.75 million are male and 1.46 million are female.
There are 33 electoral constituencies in the ten districts of AJK, while 12 constituencies are reserved for Pakistan-based Jammu & Kashmir refugees. Polling booths in across all of Pakistan’s provinces were set up for the refugees.
Over 2.8 million voters have been registered in 33 AJK constituencies and 0.4 million in 12 Jammu Kashmir refugees based in various parts of Pakistan.
A total of 691 candidates, including 381 belonging to a total of 32 registered political parties and a total of 310 independent candidates, are in the run to win the election for 45 seats.
The elections are being held under the supervision of AJK Judiciary, Pakistan Army and Rangers with the coordination of the local civil law enforcement institutions.
