{"id":91875,"date":"2025-11-23T10:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=91875"},"modified":"2025-11-23T10:01:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:01:05","slug":"by-elections-2025-polling-underway-in-6-na-7-punjab-constituencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/by-elections-2025-polling-underway-in-6-na-7-punjab-constituencies\/","title":{"rendered":"By-elections 2025: Polling underway in 6 NA & 7 Punjab constituencies"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD:\u00a0 By-elections<\/a> are being held in 6 National Assembly and 7 Punjab Assembly constituencies today.<\/p>\n

Polling will continue till 5 pm, out of 2792 polling stations, 408 have been declared highly sensitive and 1032 sensitive.<\/p>\n

9 candidates are in the fray in the by-election in NA-18 Haripur. A tough contest is expected between PTI-backed independent candidate Shahrnaz, PML-N\u2019s Babar Nawaz Khan and PPP\u2019s Irum Fatima.<\/p>\n

NA-96 Faisalabad seat fell vacant due to the disqualification of Rai Haider Khan, here PML-N\u2019s Muhammad Bilal Badar will face independent candidates Nawab Sher Wasir and Arshad Mahmood.<\/p>\n

NA-104 Faisalabad seat fell vacant due to the disqualification of Sahibzada Hamid Raza, PML-N\u2019s Daniyal Ahmed will face independent candidate Rana Adnan Javed in this constituency. Daniyal Ahmed is the son of former opposition leader Raja Riaz Ahmed.<\/p>\n

NA-129 Lahore seat fell vacant due to the death of Mian Azhar, here Hafiz Noman of PML-N and independent candidate Arsalan Ahmed are contesting.<\/p>\n

NA-143 Sahiwal seat fell vacant due to the disqualification of Rai Hassan Nawaz, here NA-143 is contested between Chaudhry Tufail of PML-N and independent candidate Col (retd) Zarar Akbar.<\/p>\n

In NA-185, Dost Muhammad Khan Khosa of PPP and Mahmood Khan Leghari of PML-N are contesting, here 8 candidates are in the fray, NA-185 seat fell vacant due to Zartaj Gul Wazir\u2019s conviction and disqualification in the May 9 case.<\/p>\n

PP-73 Sargodha seat fell vacant due to the disqualification of Ansar Iqbal Haral, here 73 is contested by Sultan Ali Ranjha of PML-N against 4 independent candidates.<\/p>\n

Haris Nawaz, Haq Nawaz Ranjha, Mohsin Raza are among the independent candidates in PP-73, which fell vacant after the 10-year imprisonment and disqualification of PTI\u2019s Ansar Iqbal Haral.<\/p>\n

The seat in PP-87 Mianwali fell vacant after the disqualification of former opposition leader Ahmed Khan Bhachar. The PML-N\u2019s Ali Haider Noor Khan, independent candidate Nawabzada Ayaz Khan and JUP\u2019s Khalid Masood are in the fray.<\/p>\n

The seat in PP-98 Faisalabad fell vacant after the disqualification of Junaid Afzal Sahi. In this constituency, 10 candidates are in the fray, including independent candidate Ali Tabassum of PML-N, Muhammad Ajmal Cheema and Wasim Akram Chatha.<\/p>\n

The seat in PP-115 Faisalabad fell vacant after the disqualification of Sheikh Shahid Javed. The contest is between PML-N\u2019s Mian Tahir Jamil, independent candidates Muhammad Asghar Malik and Ahmed Tariq Cheema.<\/p>\n

PP-116 Faisalabad seat fell vacant due to the disqualification of Muhammad Ismail Sila, Malik Ismail Khan was disqualified in the attack on Rana Sanaullah’s house case, Rana Sanaullah’s son-in-law Rana Ahmed Shehryar is the PML-N candidate in this constituency, apart from him, there is a competition between Malik Asghar Ali Qaiser and 5 independent candidates in this constituency.<\/p>\n

PP-203 Sahiwal seat fell vacant due to the disqualification of Rai Murtaza Iqbal, the competition in PP-203 is between PML-N’s Hanif Jatt and independent candidate Falak Sher.<\/p>\n

PP-269 Muzaffargarh seat fell vacant due to the resignation of Mian Alamdar Abbas Qureshi, there is a tough competition in PP-269 between PPP’s Alamdar Qureshi and independent candidates Iqbal Pitafi and Abdul Hai Dasti. 17 candidates are participating in the by-election here, the seat fell vacant due to the resignation of Alamdar Qureshi before the recount of votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD:\u00a0 By-elections are being held in 6 National Assembly and 7 Punjab Assembly constituencies today. Polling will continue till 5 pm, out of 2792 polling stations, 408 have been declared highly sensitive and 1032 sensitive. 9 candidates are in the fray in the by-election in NA-18 Haripur. A tough contest is expected between PTI-backed independent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":91876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[13868,32495],"class_list":["post-91875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-by-elections","tag-by-elections-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91877,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91875\/revisions\/91877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}