KARACHI
\nThe Pakistan People\u2019s Party (PPP) appears to have taken the lead in Sunday\u2019s local government polls held in different Union Councils\u2019 wards across Sindh, unofficial results showed on Monday.
\nAs per the unofficial results, the Asif Bhutto Zardari-lead party emerged as the biggest winner with 39 seats. However, the results are inconclusive as the Independent candidates grabbed nine seats.
\nThe key contestant Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) \u2014 an umbrella of different political parties representing the opposition \u2014 candidates won six seats. The Peoples Party also won 10 of the 16 seats of the Chairman and Vice Chairman. While, independent candidates and the GDA contestants secured three and two seats respectively.
\nBased on the unofficial party position results, PPP took the lead with 21 general member seats out of the total 32 seats. The GDA and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Pakistan secured one seat each. Furthermore, an independent candidate secured victory in 11 member district council seats. In addition, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F), and PTI won one general member seat each.
\nThe Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate won one seat of chairman and vice-chairman. The People\u2019s Party won 22 seats of general members, while the independent candidate bagged four seats.
\nThe re-polling, which kicked off at 8am on Sunday \u2014 continued uninterrupted with reports of sporadic clashes \u2014 ended at 5pm on the same day. The voting was held in 15 districts of Sindh in response to widespread allegations of \u2018rigging\u2019 during previous local government elections.
\nA total of 109,687 registered voters were expected to cast their votes in the 15 districts, with 59,310 male and 50,377 female voters. The local government polls were facilitated by 15 district returning officers, 26 returning officers, and 52 assistant returning officers, with a total of 81 polling stations established across 15 districts.
\nThe political parties have expressed their concerns over the results and have demanded the electoral watchdog to release the official results as soon as possible, as it will determine the future of their respective districts. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has earlier assured the public that the results will be \u2018fair and transparent\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KARACHI The Pakistan People\u2019s Party (PPP) appears to have taken the lead in Sunday\u2019s local government polls held in different Union Councils\u2019 wards across Sindh, unofficial results showed on Monday. As per the unofficial results, the Asif Bhutto Zardari-lead party emerged as the biggest winner with 39 seats. However, the results are inconclusive as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-322309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"\n