Following a frantic pre-election and polling process around the country, the entire country is now waiting for the results of the 2024 general elections, with high hopes for much-needed political and economic stability.
The election results are coming in from all around the country, despite a delay in the revelation of preliminary post-poll results due to many complaints about returning officers (ROs) failing to perform jobs within the specified deadline.
Lahore has its own relevance in parliamentary politics, as several political bigwigs contested Thursday’s nationwide polls from the provincial capital of Punjab, implying a strong position for one of Pakistan’s major political parties in the country’s largest province.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), and independent candidates supported by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) faced off in a close race.
Furthermore, the newly created Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP), led by Jahangir Tareen and Abdul Aleem Khan, former leaders of Imran’s party, would have to prove its mettle after fighting the polls for the first time as a new entity.
The provincial capital has 14 National Assembly (NA) seats according to the revised delimitations issued by the Election.
The following is a list of unofficial and non-governmental election results from NA constituencies:
- NA-117 Lahore–I
The IPP’s Abdul Aleem Khan won the seat with 72,519 votes, followed by Ali Ijaz, the PTI-backed independent candidate, who received 31,586 votes.
- NA-118 Lahore II.
Completed results: PML-N’s Hamza Shehbaz was proclaimed the winner of the seat with 105,960 votes, followed by PTI-backed independent candidate Aliya Hamza Malik with 100,803.
- NA-119 Lahore III.
The PML-N’s Maryam Nawaz won the seat with 83,855 votes, while the PTI-backed independent candidate Shehzad Farooq received 68,376 votes.
- NA-120 Lahore IV.
Completed results: PML-N’s Sardar Ayaz Sadiq won the seat with 68,143 votes, followed by the PTI-affiliated independent candidate Usman Hamza who received 49,222 votes.
- NA-121 Lahore–PTI-supported independent candidate Waseem Qadir won the seat with 78,703 votes, followed by the PML-N’s Sheikh Rohail Asgher with 70,597 votes. In NA-122 Lahore-VI, the PTI-backed independent candidate Latif Khosa won with 117,109 votes, followed by the PML-N’s Khawaja Saad Rafique with 77,709 votes.
- NA-122 Lahore (VI)
- Completed result: PTI-backed independent candidate Latif Khosa won the seat by receiving 117,109 votes, followed by the PML-N’s Khawaja Saad Rafique who received 77,709.
- NA-123, Lahore-VII
- Completed results: PML-N’s Shehbaz Sharif won the seat with 63,953 votes, followed by the PTI-affiliated independent candidate Afzaal Azeem Pahat who received 48,486 votes.
- NA-124 Lahore–VIII
- Rana Mubashir Iqbal of the PML-N won the seat with 55,387 votes, followed by Rana Zameer Ahmad Jedhu, an independent candidate supported by the PTI, who received 43,594.
- NA-125 Lahore–IX
- PML-N’s Muhammad Afzal Khokhar won the seat with 65,102 votes, followed by the PTI-backed independent candidate Javaid Umar who received 51,144 votes.
- NA-126, Lahore-X
- PML-N’s Malik Saif Ul Mulook Khokhar won the seat with 67,717 votes, followed by the PTI-backed independent candidate Malik Touqeer Abbas Khokhar, who received 60,479 votes.
- NA-127 Lahore XI.
- Completed results: PML-N’s Attah Ullah Tarrar won the seat with 98,210 votes, followed by PTI-backed independent candidate Malik Zaheer Abbas Khokhar with 82,230.
- PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari also contested from the constituency and received 15,005 votes.
- NA-128 Lahore–XII
- Completed results: IPP’s Muhammad Aun Saqlain won the seat with 172,576 votes, followed by the PTI-backed independent candidate Salman Akram Raja who received 159,024 votes.
- NA-129 Lahore–XIII
- Mian Muhammad Azhar, a PTI-supported independent candidate, won the seat with 103,718 votes, followed by PML-N’s Hafiz Numan, who received 71,540.
- NA-130, Lahore-XIV
- PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif was proclaimed the winner of the seat after earning 171,024 votes, followed by the PTI-backed independent candidate Dr. Yasmeen Rashid, who received 115,043 votes.
