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There was a by-election in the Pakistani parliamentary constituency of NA-120 on 17 September 2017, following the decision given by the Supreme Court of Pakistan to disqualify Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from public office. PML (N) candidate Kulsoom Nawaz Sharif secured 61,745 votes and defeated Yasmin Rashid of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. [1]
The Election Act, 2017 is a law enacted to amend, and consolidate the laws relating to the conduct of elections in Pakistan.The Act has been the subject of numerous amendments and legal challenges since its enactment, including issues related to allocation of reserved seats, intra-party elections, disqualification conditions for legislators.
Following the decision given by the Supreme Court of Pakistan to disqualify Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from public office, a bye-election was triggered in his NA-120 constituency. The by-election took place on 17 September 2017. Kulsoom Nawaz won this seat with 61,745 votes. [3] Detailed results can be found here.
Lahore by-election, September 2017 [ edit ] The first of these was the by-election in Sharif's former constituency , NA-120 Lahore , which is located in the capital city of the Punjab province, a province where the PML (N) was the ruling party.
Was elected in a by-election in January 2014 after Raja Aamer Zaman was disqualified. Became ineligible to continue in office in June 2015 as the constituency election was invalidated due to voting irregularities. [346] Punjab NA-63 (Jhelum-II) Pakistan Muslim League (N) Malik Iqbal Mehdi Khan: Was elected in May 2013.
In the election, the party formed a coalition with the Lok Insaaf Party and gave it five seats. [24] No CM candidate was declared before the elections. [25] According to AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal, the CM candidate would be selected from Punjab. [26] AAP won 20 seats in the Punjab Assembly in its debut in the 2017 Punjab elections.
As of May 31, there have been 31 special elections (including primaries that will go to runoffs later this year) for state house and senate or congressional seats since Nov. 9, 2016. Between now and November 2017, there will be special elections for 19 more state legislature seats, four U.S. House seats and one U.S. Senate seat.
Similarly, in May, 1953 elections to the Provincial legislature of Sindh were held and they were also marred by accusations of rigging. In April 1954, the general elections were held for the East Pakistan Legislative Assembly, in which the Pakistan Muslim League lost to the pan-Bengali nationalist United Front alliance. [4]