ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) came out on top in the first ever local bodies elections in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) to elect 650 members of the 50 union councils.
The electoral arena comprises two constituencies of the National Assembly: NA-48 won by PTI’s Asad Umar and NA-49 that went to Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry of the PML-N.
According
ByOCTOPUS
December 01, 2015
ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) came out on top in the first ever local bodies elections in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) to elect 650 members of the 50 union councils.
The electoral arena comprises two constituencies of the National Assembly: NA-48 won by PTI’s Asad Umar and NA-49 that went to Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry of the PML-N.
According to unofficial results, the PML-N won 21 seats while the PTI got 16 and independents pocketed 13 seats of the union councils.
The results of three union councils were withheld due to various reasons. The union councils, from where PML-N candidates won, included UC-5, UC-18, UC-24, UC-45, UC-48, UC-49 and those won by the PTI include UC-29, UC-36 and UC-36.
The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and other parties failed to make anymark during the electoral bout. The PTI lost the election in its chairman Imran Khan’s union council Mora Noor, while minister Dr Tariq Fazal’s nephew lost the battle with the PTI.
Similarly, ex-MNA Anjum Aqeel’s brother-in-law also could not return from Golra UC and the seat went to Shoaib Khan of PTI.
Against 650 seats of 50 union councils of the ICT, about 2,400 candidates were in the electoral arena. Of these, 972 were independents. Over 684,000 voters were given the choice of electing their representatives for the first ever local bodies system in the capital city.
At least nine candidates, belonging to the minorities, returned unopposed from union councils no. 6,11,17,19, 23, 34, 3, 45 and 48. There were no candidates on the reserved seats for minorities in 13 union councils.
Meanwhile, in a statement, the Chief Election Commissioner, Justice (retd) Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan was happy over the peaceful electoral exercise and praised the army, Rangers and police for their role in the maintenance of peace and order during the polling process. He also spoke highly of the local administration for its cooperation on this count.
The Election Commission Secretary Babar Yaqoob Fateh Muhammad visited some polling stations and expressed satisfaction over the arrangements and appreciated the voters who had queued up since early morning.
