Pakistan's Sharif ahead in election count
feature, World 04:45
Islamabad, May 11: Pakistan's opposition leader and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's PML-N appears set to emerge as the single largest party followed by Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf, dealing a severe blow to Pakistan Peoples Party, which led the last government.
As manual counting of votes progressed after the landmark elections that marked the first democratic transition in the country's 66-year history, intial trends available for 203 of the 272 seats at stake showed PML-N leading in 110, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in 32, PPP in 31 while independents were ahead in 20 while JUI-F in 10, a news channel reported.
Sharif won the Sargodha constituency seat from his stronghold Punjab province and his party was reported to be leading in 110 of the 203 seats for which trends were available. Polling was held for 272 seats in the National Assembly.
Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan won Peshawar-I constituency even as his party led in 32 seats.
"ANP's Ghulam Bilour has admitted defeat from Imran Khan on NA-1 (Peshawar-I). Khan won 66,464 votes from the seat," a media channel reported.
Sharif got 19,125 votes, defeating Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's Noor Hayat who only secured 6,065 votes.
Initial trends available for 229 off the 272 seas at stake showed PML-N leading in 110, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in 32, PPP in 31 while independents lead in 20 and JUI-F in 10.
Meanwhile, violence hit Pakistan's biggest city immediately after polling ended, killing two security personnel. SSP Imran Shaukat said the attack appeared to be a suicide attack in which the two rangers personnel had been killed.
As manual counting of votes progressed after the landmark elections that marked the first democratic transition in the country's 66-year history, intial trends available for 203 of the 272 seats at stake showed PML-N leading in 110, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in 32, PPP in 31 while independents were ahead in 20 while JUI-F in 10, a news channel reported.
Sharif won the Sargodha constituency seat from his stronghold Punjab province and his party was reported to be leading in 110 of the 203 seats for which trends were available. Polling was held for 272 seats in the National Assembly.
Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan won Peshawar-I constituency even as his party led in 32 seats.
"ANP's Ghulam Bilour has admitted defeat from Imran Khan on NA-1 (Peshawar-I). Khan won 66,464 votes from the seat," a media channel reported.
Sharif got 19,125 votes, defeating Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's Noor Hayat who only secured 6,065 votes.
Initial trends available for 229 off the 272 seas at stake showed PML-N leading in 110, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in 32, PPP in 31 while independents lead in 20 and JUI-F in 10.
Meanwhile, violence hit Pakistan's biggest city immediately after polling ended, killing two security personnel. SSP Imran Shaukat said the attack appeared to be a suicide attack in which the two rangers personnel had been killed.
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