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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]
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.
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.
The 2018 General Elections were held under new delimitation can of constituencies as a result of 2017 Census of Pakistan. [54] Parliament of Pakistan amended the Constitution, allowing a one-time exemption for redrawing constituency boundaries using 2017 provisional census results. [ 55 ]
On March 11, 2017, the results of the Punjab Assembly elections were declared and the Akali-BJP coalition was defeated. Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal resigned in next 12 days. [102] On March 16, 2017, Capt. Amarinder Singh was sworn in as Chief Minister of Punjab, along with nine of his cabinet ministers. [103]
This is a summary of the electoral history of Nawaz Sharif, who was Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1990 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 1999 and then again from 2013 to 2017 and Leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) from 1993 to 1999 and again from 2011 to August 2017 and then again from October 2017 to February 2018.
In 2017, Butt was found guilty for his involvement in the murder of a politician affiliated with Pakistan Peoples Party. [10] He was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency PP-164 (Lahore-XXI) in by-election held on 14 October 2018. [11]
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.