NA-234 Karachi Korangi-III (این اے-234، کراچی کورنگی-3) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. The constituency had previously been a stronghold of PTI.[1][2]
| NA-234 Karachi Korangi-III | |
|---|---|
| Constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
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| Region | Korangi Town (partly) and Korangi Cantonment (partly) of Korangi District in Karachi |
| Electorate | 314,450 |
| Current constituency | |
| Party | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf |
| Member(s) | Faheem Khan |
| Created from | NA-254 Karachi-XVI |
Members of Parliament
edit2018–2023: NA-241 Karachi Korangi-III
edit| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Faheem Khan | PTI | |
2024–present: NA-234 Karachi Korangi-III
edit| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Faheem Khan | PTI | |
Election 2002
editThe Pakistan General elections of 2002 were held in Pakistan on 10 October. MQM had a tough election run with competition from the coalition of most religious parties named MMA, however the people of NA-254 showed their support by making Nawab Mirza Advocate of MQM victorious by a significant margin. Mirza got 42888 votes as compared to 16733 of runner-up Syed Zahid Siraj.[3]
Election 2008
editGeneral election were supposed to be held on 8 January 2008 but were postponed due to the death of Benazir Bhutto and the PPPP led violence that followed. Elections were eventually held on 18 February 2008.
Dr. Muhammad Ayoub Shaikh of the MQM succeeded in the election 2008 and became the member of National Assembly. He received 132648 votes while the runner-up, Syed Sohail Abrar of the PPPP, could get only 14302 votes.[4]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MQM | Muhammad Ayoub Shaikh | 132,648 | 86.98 | ||
| PPP | Syed Sohail Abrar | 14,302 | 9.38 | ||
| PML(N) | Malik Akhtar Hussain Awan | 4,965 | 3.26 | ||
| Others | Others (five candidates) | 1,587 | 0.38 | ||
| Turnout | 155,050 | 50.18 | |||
| Total valid votes | 153,502 | 99.00 | |||
| Rejected ballots | 1,548 | 1.00 | |||
| Majority | 118,346 | 77.60 | |||
| Registered electors | 309,017 | ||||
| MQM hold | |||||
Election 2013
editGeneral election 2013 was held on 11 May however the elections of this constituency were delayed after ANP's candidate, Sadiq Zaman Khattak, was killed on May 2, 2013 by unknown militants. The Taliban later accepted responsibility for the attack stating that it was a part of the attacks on the secular parties: ANP, PPPP & MQM.[5]
The elections were held on 22 August 2013 under heavy security. The voter turnout was low as generally, the enthusiasm to vote is very low in by elections. Some people complained of not being allowed to vote due to errors in the electoral lists.[6] The election commission announced the results on August 23, 2013 declaring MQM's Muhammad Ali Rashid the winner with 84% of the votes.[7][8]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MQM | Ali Rashid | 53,045 | 83.69 | ||
| PTI | Muhammad Naeem | 5,855 | 9.24 | ||
| PML(N) | Mian Muhammad Ilyas Rasheed | 2,533 | 4.00 | ||
| Others | Others (twelve candidates) | 1,949 | 3.07 | ||
| Turnout | 63,809 | 16.85 | |||
| Total valid votes | 63,382 | 99.33 | |||
| Rejected ballots | 427 | 0.67 | |||
| Majority | 47,190 | 74.45 | |||
| Registered electors | 378,712 | ||||
| MQM hold | |||||
Election 2018
editGeneral elections were held on 25 July 2018.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PTI | Faheem Khan | 26,706 | 23.41 | ||
| MQM-P | Muhammad Moin Aamir Pirzada | 23,873 | 20.93 | ||
| TLP | Allama Tahir Iqbal Qadri | 19,184 | 16.82 | ||
| PML(N) | Taib Zar Khan | 16,892 | 14.81 | ||
| PPP | Moazzam Ali Qureshi | 9,367 | 8.21 | ||
| PSP | Muhammad Danish Khan | 5,167 | 4.53 | ||
| GDA | Abdul Hafiz | 4,606 | 4.04 | ||
| Others | Others (eight candidates) | 6,017 | 5.27 | ||
| Turnout | 114,072 | 36.28 | |||
| Rejected ballots | 2,260 | 1.98 | |||
| Majority | 2,833 | 2.48 | |||
| Registered electors | 314,450 | ||||
| PTI gain from MQM-P | |||||
Election 2024
editGeneral elections were held on 8 February 2024. Muhammad Moin Aamir Pirzada won the election with 72,009 votes.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MQM-P | Muhammad Moin Aamir Pirzada | 72,009 | 41.60 |  20.67
| ||
| Independent | Faheem Khan[a] | 44,487 | 25.70 | 2.29
| ||
| PPP | Muhammad Ali Rashid | 18,038 | 10.42 | 2.21
| ||
| JI | Akhter Hussain Qureshi | 13,521 | 7.81 | N/A | ||
| TLP | Abdul Sattar | 8,763 | 5.06 |  11.76
| ||
| PML(N) | Saleem Zia | 6,580 | 3.80 | 11.01
| ||
| Others | Others (fourteen candidates) | 9,719 | 5.61 | |||
| Turnout | 175,071 | 45.40 | 9.12
| |||
| Total valid votes | 173,117 | 98.88 | ||||
| Rejected ballots | 1,954 | 1.12 | ||||
| Majority | 27,522 | 15.90 | ||||
| Registered electors | 385,628 | |||||
| MQM-P gain from PTI | ||||||
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ Filed nomination papers as PTI candidate but ECP allowed him to run as an Independent
References
edit- ^ "ECP - Election Commission of Pakistan". www.ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- ^ "Na 254". 23 August 2013. Archived from the original on 21 May 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
- ^ "Na 254". Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ^ "NA-254 Karachi XVI Detail Election Result 2008". Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ^ "Election Postponed". 3 May 2013. Archived from the original on 21 May 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
- ^ "By elections". 23 August 2013. Archived from the original on 21 May 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
- ^ "Result 2013". Archived from the original on 21 May 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
- ^ "Result". 23 August 2013. Archived from the original on 21 May 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
- ^ "ECP - Election Commission of Pakistan". www.ecp.gov.pk. Archived from the original on 3 August 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
External links
edit- Election result's official website
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