2019 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election

2019 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election (Tribal Districts)

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21 of 145 seats in the Provincial Assembly 73 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	26.26%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Mahmood Khan Akram Khan Durrani Asfandyar Wali Khan Party PTI MMA ANP Leader's seat Swat-VIII Bannu-IV Not Contested Seats before 84 18 12 Seats won 10 5 1 Seats after 95 18 12 Seat change 10 5 1 Popular vote 182,023 169,203 48,325 Percentage 24.75% 23% 6.57%
Chief Minister before election Mahmood Khan PTI Elected Chief Minister Mahmood Khan PTI

Provincial elections were held in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's constituencies belonging to areas previously known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on 20 July 2019. After the election, the new members joined the already elected members from the rest of the province to complete the formation of 11th Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Background

On 31 May 2018, the former president of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain signed the landmark Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan which was already passed by the National Assembly of Pakistan and Senate of Pakistan earlier that year. The amendment called for the integration of FATA into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It also outlined that provincial elections will be held in areas of former FATA within one year of 2018 Pakistani general election. To fulfill that requirement, the new president of Pakistan Arif Alvi directed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in late 2018 to conduct the elections in May 2019. ECP started the work to delimit the constituencies. During the delimitation exercise, sixteen new constituencies were created to elect the members on general seats and four reserved seats for women and one for Non-Muslims. ^[1]

On 6 May 2019, it was announced that the election will be held on 20 July 2019. ^[2]

285 candidates of different parties including two women candidates ran for elections out of which 202 were Independent candidates. Over 2.1 million voters used their right to vote for the first ever provincial elections.

A total 1896 polling stations were created across the tribal districts out of which 450 polling stations have been declared sensitive. ^[3]

Polling started in morning 8 till evening 5 without any break. ^[4]

Results

According to official Results Independents won 6 seats, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf won 5 seats, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam F won 3 seats, Jamat-e-Islami and Awami National Party won 1 seats each. ^{[5] [6]}

Party		Votes	%	Seats
				General	Women	Non-Muslims	Total
	Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf	182,023	25.13	5	2	1	8
	Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F)	112,999	15.60	3	1	0	4
	Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan	56,204	7.76	1	0	0	1
	Awami National Party	48,325	6.67	1	0	0	1
	Pakistan Peoples Party	28,049	3.87	0	0	0	0
	Pakistan Muslim League (N)	8,257	1.14	0	0	0	0
	Qaumi Watan Party	2,650	0.37	0	0	0	0
	Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S)	364	0.05	0	0	0	0
	Pak Sarzameen Party	317	0.04	0	0	0	0
	Pakistan Awami Inqlab League	238	0.03	0	0	0	0
	Independents	284,788	39.32	6	1	0	7
Total		724,214	100.00	16	4	1	21
Valid votes		724,214	98.47
Invalid/blank votes		11,262	1.53
Total votes		735,476	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		2,800,831	26.26

Results by district

Division	District	Seats	PTI	JUI(F)	JI	ANP	BAP	IND
Ex-FATA	Bajaur	3	2	0	1	0	0	0
	Mohmand	2	0	0	0	1	1	0
	Khyber	3	1	0	0	0	2	0
	Kurram	2	1	1	0	0	0	0
	Orakzai	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
	North Waziristan	2	1	0	0	0	0	1
	South Waziristan	2	1	1	0	0	0	0
	Ex-Frontier Regions	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Total		16	7	3	1	1	3	1

Result by constituency

District	Constituency		Winner					Runner Up					Margin	Turnout %
	No.	Name	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%
Bajaur	PK-100	Bajaur-I	Anwar Zeb Khan		PTI	12,995	25.35	Wahid Gul		JI	11,836	23.09	1,159	33.47
	PK-101	Bajaur-II	Ajmal Khan		PTI	12,204	26.18	Sahibzada Haroon ur Rasheed		JI	10,514	22.55	1,690	29.46
	PK-102	Bajaur-III	Sirajuddin Khan		JI	19,144	28.75	Hamid ur Rehman		PTI	13,517	20.92	5,627	31.30
Mohmand	PK-103	Mohmand-I	Nisar Mohmand		ANP	11,258	28.61	Rahim Shah		PTI	9,687	24.62	1,571	36.28
	PK-104	Mohmand-II	Malik Abbas Rehman		IND	11,763	24.72	Muhammad Arif		JUI(F)	9,808	20.61	1,955	28.29
Khyber	PK-105	Khyber-I	Shafiq Sher Afridi		IND	19,747	43.88	Shermat Khan		IND	10,748	23.88	8,999	27.42
	PK-106	Khyber-II	Bilawal Afridi		IND	12,855	37.35	Khan Shahid Afridi		IND	6,304	18.32	6,551	23.51
	PK-107	Khyber-III	Muhammad Shafiq Afridi		IND	9,796	26.15	Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi		IND	8,473	22.62	1,323	17.53
Kurram	PK-108	Kurram-I	Muhammad Riaz Shaheen		JUI(F)	11,840	26.88	Jamil Khan		IND	11,342	25.75	498	26.60
	PK-109	Kurram-II	Iqbal Mian		PTI	39,716	53.32	Inayat Ali		IND	23,030	30.92	16,686	40.28
Orakzai	PK-110	Orakzai	Syed Ghazi Ghazan Jamal		IND	18,461	39.17	Muhammad Arif		PTI	15,057	31.94	3,404	24.24
North Waziristan	PK-111	North Waziristan-I	Muhammad Iqbal Wazir		PTI	10,200	27.71	Sami Uddin		JUI(F)	9,288	25.23	912	26.26
	PK-112	North Waziristan-II	Mir Kalam Wazir		IND	12,061	33.41	Sadiq Ullah		JUI(F)	7,982	22.11	4,079	20.31
South Waziristan	PK-113	South Waziristan-I	Isam-ud-Din		JUI(F)	9,712	28.39	Waheed Khan		IND	9,688	28.32	24	16.15
	PK-114	South Waziristan-II	Naseerullah Wazir		PTI	11,114	29.81	Muhammad Arif		IND	10,272	27.55	842	22.65
Ex-Frontier Regions	PK-115	Frontier Regions	Muhammad Shoaib		JUI(F)	18,102	39.11	Abid Ur Rehman		PTI	18,028	38.95	74	24.69

Members elected on reserved seats

Reserved Seats	Party		Member
For Women		Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf	Anita Mehsud
			Aysha Bibi
		Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal	Naeema Kishwar
		Balochistan Awami Party	Baserat Khan
For Non-Muslims		Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf	Wilson Wazir

Aftermath

After the elections, five out of the six independents joined political parties. Three joined the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) and two joined the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).

Following this, PTI was declared to have secured two of the four reserved seats for women and the one reserved for minorities. Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) (JUI-F) and BAP each secured one reserved seat for women. ^[7]

Newly elected members took oath on 27 August 2019. ^[8]

References

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2. "ECP starts receiving nomination papers for KP Assembly's elections - Pakistan Today". www.pakistantoday.com.pk. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
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5. "Party Position for PA" (PDF). www.ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
6. "ECP - Election Commission of Pakistan". www.ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
7. "Tehreek-i-Insaf to bag three tribal districts reserved seats in PA" . Retrieved 4 August 2019.
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