ISLAMABAD\/SWAT
\nPTI\u2019s Fazl Mula on Sunday managed to flip a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly seat, won by ANP in 2018, after defeating the former\u2019s candidate in the PK-7 Swat election. Unofficial results from 124 polling stations showed Mula secured 17,395 votes while ANP\u2019s candidate Hussain Ahmed came in second with 14,604 votes.
\nAhmed had supported of the PPP, PML-N, QWP, JUI-F and others in the by-poll.
\nThe PK-7 Swat seat fell vacant after ANP\u2019s member of the provincial assembly (MPA) Waqar Ahmad Khan passed away on April 30, this year. As per the Constitution, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is required to hold a by-election on any lawmaker\u2019s seat within 60 days from it having fallen vacant.<\/p>\n
A day earlier, the ECP \u2014 in a statement \u2014 had said that it expected a tough contest between the four candidates out of which the PTI and ANP candidates were expected to be neck and neck.<\/p>\n
The constituency has 183,308 voters in total out of which 100,288 are male and 81,220 are female.<\/p>\n
The ECP had set up a total of 124 polling stations in the constituency with 308 booths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD\/SWAT PTI\u2019s Fazl Mula on Sunday managed to flip a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly seat, won by ANP in 2018, after defeating the former\u2019s candidate in the PK-7 Swat election. Unofficial results from 124 polling stations showed Mula secured 17,395 votes while ANP\u2019s candidate Hussain Ahmed came in second with 14,604 votes. Ahmed had supported of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[237,8878,158,779],"class_list":{"0":"post-268290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-anp","9":"tag-by-polls","10":"tag-pti","11":"tag-swat"},"yoast_head":"\n