2019 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election

Provincial elections were held in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's constituencies belonging to areas previously known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on 20 July 2019. After the election, the new members joined the already elected members from the rest of the province to complete the formation of 11th Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

2019 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election (Tribal Districts)

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21 of 145 seats in the Provincial Assembly
73 seats needed for a majority
Turnout26.26%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Mahmood Khan Akram Khan Durrani Asfandyar Wali Khan
Party PTI MMA ANP
Leader's seat Swat-VIII Bannu-IV Not Contested
Seats before 84 18 12
Seats won 10 5 1
Seats after 95 18 12
Seat change Increase10 Increase5 Increase1
Popular vote 182,023 169,203 48,325
Percentage 24.75% 23% 6.57%


Chief Minister before election

Mahmood Khan
PTI

Elected Chief Minister

Mahmood Khan
PTI

Background

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On 31 May 2018, the former president of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain signed the landmark Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan which was already passed by the National Assembly of Pakistan and Senate of Pakistan earlier that year. The amendment called for the integration of FATA into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It also outlined that provincial elections will be held in areas of former FATA within one year of 2018 Pakistani general election. To fulfill that requirement, the new president of Pakistan Arif Alvi directed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in late 2018 to conduct the elections in May 2019. ECP started the work to delimit the constituencies. During the delimitation exercise, sixteen new constituencies were created to elect the members on general seats and four reserved seats for women and one for Non-Muslims.[1]

On 6 May 2019, it was announced that the election will be held on 20 July 2019.[2]

285 candidates of different parties including two women candidates ran for elections out of which 202 were Independent candidates. Over 2.1 million voters used their right to vote for the first ever provincial elections.

A total 1896 polling stations were created across the tribal districts out of which 450 polling stations have been declared sensitive.[3]

Polling started in morning 8 till evening 5 without any break.[4]

Results

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According to official Results Independents won 6 seats, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf won 5 seats, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam F won 3 seats, Jamat-e-Islami and Awami National Party won 1 seats each.[5][6]

PartyVotes%Seats
GeneralWomenNon-MuslimsTotal
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf182,02325.135218
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F)112,99915.603104
Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan56,2047.761001
Awami National Party48,3256.671001
Pakistan Peoples Party28,0493.870000
Pakistan Muslim League (N)8,2571.140000
Qaumi Watan Party2,6500.370000
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S)3640.050000
Pak Sarzameen Party3170.040000
Pakistan Awami Inqlab League2380.030000
Independents284,78839.326107
Total724,214100.00164121
Valid votes724,21498.47
Invalid/blank votes11,2621.53
Total votes735,476100.00
Registered voters/turnout2,800,83126.26

Results by district

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Division District Seats PTI JUI(F) JI ANP BAP IND
Ex-FATA Bajaur 3 2 0 1 0 0 0
Mohmand 2 0 0 0 1 1 0
Khyber 3 1 0 0 0 2 0
Kurram 2 1 1 0 0 0 0
Orakzai 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
North Waziristan 2 1 0 0 0 0 1
South Waziristan 2 1 1 0 0 0 0
Ex-Frontier Regions 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Total 16 7 3 1 1 3 1

Result by constituency

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District Constituency Winner Runner Up Margin Turnout

%

No. Name Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes %
Bajaur PK-100 Bajaur-I Anwar Zeb Khan PTI 12,995 25.35 Wahid Gul JI 11,836 23.09 1,159 33.47
PK-101 Bajaur-II Ajmal Khan PTI 12,204 26.18 Sahibzada Haroon ur Rasheed JI 10,514 22.55 1,690 29.46
PK-102 Bajaur-III Sirajuddin Khan JI 19,144 28.75 Hamid ur Rehman PTI 13,517 20.92 5,627 31.30
Mohmand PK-103 Mohmand-I Nisar Mohmand ANP 11,258 28.61 Rahim Shah PTI 9,687 24.62 1,571 36.28
PK-104 Mohmand-II Malik Abbas Rehman IND 11,763 24.72 Muhammad Arif JUI(F) 9,808 20.61 1,955 28.29
Khyber PK-105 Khyber-I Shafiq Sher Afridi IND 19,747 43.88 Shermat Khan IND 10,748 23.88 8,999 27.42
PK-106 Khyber-II Bilawal Afridi IND 12,855 37.35 Khan Shahid Afridi IND 6,304 18.32 6,551 23.51
PK-107 Khyber-III Muhammad Shafiq Afridi IND 9,796 26.15 Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi IND 8,473 22.62 1,323 17.53
Kurram PK-108 Kurram-I Muhammad Riaz Shaheen JUI(F) 11,840 26.88 Jamil Khan IND 11,342 25.75 498 26.60
PK-109 Kurram-II Iqbal Mian PTI 39,716 53.32 Inayat Ali IND 23,030 30.92 16,686 40.28
Orakzai PK-110 Orakzai Syed Ghazi Ghazan Jamal IND 18,461 39.17 Muhammad Arif PTI 15,057 31.94 3,404 24.24
North Waziristan PK-111 North Waziristan-I Muhammad Iqbal Wazir PTI 10,200 27.71 Sami Uddin JUI(F) 9,288 25.23 912 26.26
PK-112 North Waziristan-II Mir Kalam Wazir IND 12,061 33.41 Sadiq Ullah JUI(F) 7,982 22.11 4,079 20.31
South Waziristan PK-113 South Waziristan-I Isam-ud-Din JUI(F) 9,712 28.39 Waheed Khan IND 9,688 28.32 24 16.15
PK-114 South Waziristan-II Naseerullah Wazir PTI 11,114 29.81 Muhammad Arif IND 10,272 27.55 842 22.65
Ex-Frontier Regions PK-115 Frontier Regions Muhammad Shoaib JUI(F) 18,102 39.11 Abid Ur Rehman PTI 18,028 38.95 74 24.69

Members elected on reserved seats

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Reserved Seats Party Member
For Women Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Anita Mehsud
Aysha Bibi
Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal Naeema Kishwar
Balochistan Awami Party Baserat Khan
For Non-Muslims Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Wilson Wazir

Aftermath

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After the elections, five out of the six independents joined political parties. Three joined the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) and two joined the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).

Following this, PTI was declared to have secured two of the four reserved seats for women and the one reserved for minorities. Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) (JUI-F) and BAP each secured one reserved seat for women.[7]

Newly elected members took oath on 27 August 2019.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "KP Election Commission working on delimitation of ex-Fata constituencies". TheNews International. 11 December 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  2. ^ "ECP starts receiving nomination papers for KP Assembly's elections - Pakistan Today". www.pakistantoday.com.pk. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  3. ^ "Pakistan's tribal region: From terror-victim to elections | Pakistan Today". www.pakistantoday.com.pk. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  4. ^ "Polling for election in KP tribal districts on Saturday | Samaa Digital". Samaa TV. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  5. ^ "Party Position for PA" (PDF). www.ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
  6. ^ "ECP - Election Commission of Pakistan". www.ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
  7. ^ "Tehreek-i-Insaf to bag three tribal districts reserved seats in PA". Retrieved 4 August 2019.
  8. ^ "Ex-Fata members take oath in KP assembly". dunyanews.tv. Retrieved 2019-09-18.