PML-N won 123 of the 269 directly elected national assembly seats.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - The final vote count from weekend s nationwide elections in Pakistan on Tuesday confirmed a big win for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif s party.
The figures released by the Election Commission of Pakistan show Sharif s Pakistan Muslim League-N party will likely get a majority in the national assembly, setting him up to be prime minister for the third time.
PML-N won 123 of the 269 directly elected national assembly seats, the commission said.
There are 272 directly-elected seats in the lower house of parliament, but races for three seats were not held because a candidate had died. A new vote will be scheduled for those seats after alternative names are proposed.
Independent candidates who normally join the party that forms the government won 25 seats. The combination would give Sharif s party more than the 137 directly elected seats they need to have a majority.
There are an additional 70 seats for women and minorities that are apportioned to the parties based on how well they do in the general election.
The outgoing ruling Pakistan People s Party won 31 seats. The party was battered by allegations of corruption and complaints that it did nothing to address power blackouts and inflation. Almost all of the seats that it did win were in the party s stronghold of Sindh province.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party led by former cricket star Imran Khan won 26 seats, which is a huge improvement for a party that boycotted the 2008 election and only claimed one seat in the 2002 vote.
Imran Khan s supporters have protested the vote as unfair, Khan has claimed vote-rigging in the port city of Karachi and in Punjab province. Many of the young people who have come out to vote for Khan have also taken to the streets in recent days in protests in Karachi and Islamabad calling for recounts and new elections in many areas.
But many election observers who monitored the vote have said it was relatively fair.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said they did not find any evidence of systematic rigging and called on all parties to accept the vote.
The Free and Fair Election Network, a Pakistani monitoring group with thousands of observers, has described the balloting in Punjab as "relatively fair."
"The elections were held in a free and fair manner," said, Election commission spokesman Khursheed Alam, adding the commission was examining complaints it received.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - The final vote count from weekend s nationwide elections in Pakistan on Tuesday confirmed a big win for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif s party.
The figures released by the Election Commission of Pakistan show Sharif s Pakistan Muslim League-N party will likely get a majority in the national assembly, setting him up to be prime minister for the third time.
PML-N won 123 of the 269 directly elected national assembly seats, the commission said.
There are 272 directly-elected seats in the lower house of parliament, but races for three seats were not held because a candidate had died. A new vote will be scheduled for those seats after alternative names are proposed.
Independent candidates who normally join the party that forms the government won 25 seats. The combination would give Sharif s party more than the 137 directly elected seats they need to have a majority.
There are an additional 70 seats for women and minorities that are apportioned to the parties based on how well they do in the general election.
The outgoing ruling Pakistan People s Party won 31 seats. The party was battered by allegations of corruption and complaints that it did nothing to address power blackouts and inflation. Almost all of the seats that it did win were in the party s stronghold of Sindh province.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party led by former cricket star Imran Khan won 26 seats, which is a huge improvement for a party that boycotted the 2008 election and only claimed one seat in the 2002 vote.
Imran Khan s supporters have protested the vote as unfair, Khan has claimed vote-rigging in the port city of Karachi and in Punjab province. Many of the young people who have come out to vote for Khan have also taken to the streets in recent days in protests in Karachi and Islamabad calling for recounts and new elections in many areas.
But many election observers who monitored the vote have said it was relatively fair.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said they did not find any evidence of systematic rigging and called on all parties to accept the vote.
The Free and Fair Election Network, a Pakistani monitoring group with thousands of observers, has described the balloting in Punjab as "relatively fair."
"The elections were held in a free and fair manner," said, Election commission spokesman Khursheed Alam, adding the commission was examining complaints it received.
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