ISLAMABA: Keeping in view the trends of the election results, a hung parliament is likely to emerge once the results are completed with PML N and the Independents assuming the center stage.
PML-N, Independents bag majority NA seats while Independents performed well in Punjab and KP also. Big PML names Khawaja Saad, Barjis Tahir, Amir Muqam, Rana Sanaullah lost in the elections while PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira was also defeated.
On February 8, a large number of people across the country exercised their right to vote to elect their representatives for national and provincial assemblies — on 855 constituencies — despite suspension of mobile phone and internet services.
The 2024 elections surpassed the previous ones in 2018 in various aspects, including a record budget allocation of Rs48 billion, a substantial increase in the number of voters exceeding 50% of the total population, an unprecedented ratio of independent candidates, a total of nearly 18,000 candidates, and a substantial amount of paper required for printing 260 million ballots. DNA
