AJK Elections 2021: PTI wins 25 seats, PPP nine

724 candidates contested for 45 general seats

Zulqarnain Iqbal | Amiruddin Mughal Jul 28, 2021

AJK-elections-2021 — Artwork: Obair Khan/SAMAA Digital

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has won 25 seats in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Elections 2021.

The Pakistan Peoples Party won nine seats, while Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, which has formed the last government, won only six seats. All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference and Jammu Kashmir Peoples Party won one seat each.

The results of LA-2, LA-12, and LA-16 are awaited but PPP candidates are said to be in lead.

The polling started at 8am on July 25 (Sunday) and continued till 5pm. Thousands of people left their houses to cast their votes.

A total of 724 candidates are contesting for 45 general seats. This year, 20 women are competing in the polls. Five hundred and seventy-nine candidates are competing for 33 constituencies within Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The remaining are contesting for 12 "refugee constituencies" in the country's four provinces.

The 45 directly-elected members of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly will choose eight candidates for special seats. The assembly will be formed by 53 lawmakers.

This year, 32 political parties competed for the AJK elections.

Here is the list of the winners:

LA 1 – Mirpur I

PTI’s Chaudhry Azhar Sadiq
PPP’s Choudhry Muhammad Asfar Shahid
JK PP’s Raja Muhammad Sarfaraz
Jamat Falah e Insaniyat AJK’s Abdul Latif Butt
AII J&K MC’s Ghulam Rabbani Barq
PML-N’s Chaudhry Masood Khalid
IND Javed Iqbal
IND Muhammad Jahangir Akbar
IND Shoaib Abid
IND Tahir Qayyum
IND Shahid Ahmed Chughtai
IND Zaffar Khan
IND Zahoor Sarwar
IND Ali Zaman
IND Liaqat Ali
IND Luqman Anjum Sultan
IND Nasreen Akhter
IND Nagina Perveen
IND Waqar Ahmed Mughal

LA 2 – Mirpur II (Awaited)

PPP’s Chaudhry Qasim Majeed
TLP’s Abu Al Hasnat
MQMP’s Basharat Shareef
AAPP’s Khalid Farooq
AII J&K MC’s Zulfiqar Ali
QIP’s Sabar Sheraz
PTI’s Zafar Anwer
AT’s Asim Akram
PML-N’s Muhammad Nazir Inqalabi
JK UM’s Mazar Iqbal
JK DP’s Mazar Iqbal
IND Jameel Akhter
IND Sohail Sarfaraz
IND Shahid Anwer
IND Azeem Bakhsh
IND Muhammad Khalil
IND Moheez Majeed
IND Maqsood Ahmed Tahir

LA 3 – Mirpur III

PTI’s Barrister Sultan Mehmood
MWM’s Syed Tasawer Hussain Kazmi
MQMP’s Toqeer Ahmed
JI’s Zulqernain Butt
JK UM’s Shabir Ahmed Chachi
AII J&K MC’s Shazada Iqbal
QIP’s Sardar Abdul Rahman Khan
TLP’s Umair Asghar
PPP’s Chaudhry Muhammad Ashraf
PML-N’s Chaudhry Muhammad Saeed
AT’s Raja Muhammad Naib Khan
AAPP’s Nasreen Farooq
IND Yasir Sultan
IND Muhammad Waqas Ashraf
IND Muhammad Naheem
IND Muhammad Azeem
IND Muhammad Bilawal Hussain
IND Muhammad Ashraf
IND Qamar Zaheer
IND Ishrat Hassan
IND Shaid Latif
IND Aman Ullah Khan
IND Iftikhar Ahmed

LA 4 – Mirpur IV

PTI’s Arshad Hussain
JI’s Altaf Hussain
MQMP’s Raja Tanveer ul Hasan
JK UM’s Khalid Hussain
PML-N’s Ruksar Ahmed
PPP’s Riaz Ahmed Chaudhry
TLP’s Abdul Aziz Chaudhry
PPP’s Faiz Hameed
AII J&K MC’s Raja Masood Raqoof
IND Ikhlaq Ahmed
IND Hafeez Ullah Khan
IND Soaib Arshad
IND Raja Zaheer ul Haq
IND Abdul Qayyum Aziz
IND Aveena Ruksar
IND Farooq Ahmed

LA 5 – Bhimber I

PML-N’s Waqar Ahmed Noor
PPP’s Choudhry Pervez Ashraf
J&K UM’s Aamir Saddique
PTI’s Chaudhry Anwar-ul-Haq
JI’s Muzaffar Hussain
TLP’s Muhammad Khursheed
AII J&K MC’s Muhammad Shafique Jarral
IND Laeeque Muhammad Aamer
IND Muhammad Sikandar Khan
INDA Malik Abdu Hamid
IND Shakir Raza
IND Chaudhry Waleed Ashraf
IND Waqas Khizar
IND Muhammad Malik

LA 6 – Bhimber II

PTI’s Ali Shan Soni
PPP’s Idrees Chaudhry
AII J&K MC’s Khushnood Azam
TLP’s Ghulam Qadar
JI’s Fakhar Uddin Ahmed
AT’s Mehbood Hussain
JK Liberation League’s Muhammad Arif
PML-N’s Maqsood Ahmed Khan
IND Javeed Akhtar
IND Javeed Iqbal
IND Waheem Akram
IND Adeel Ali Shan
IND Muhammad Razzaq
IND Muhammad Rafiq
IND Muhammad Latif

LA 7 – Bhimber III

PTI’s Chaudhry Anwar ul Haq
PPP’s Anees Ahmed
JI’s Riaz Ahmed
TLP’s Muhammad Zubair
J&K Awami Itehad’s Samia Mukhtar
PML-N’s Tariq Farooq
AII J&K MC’s Raja Tahir Iqbal Khan
J&K UM’s Muhammad Ali Akhtar
PPP’s Ali Murtaza
J&K Awami Tehreek’s Muhammad Aziz Subhani
IND Inam ul Haq
IND Inam Sobani
IND Raja Babar Ali Zulqernanin
IND Muhammad Taimur Ilyas
IND Muhammad Rizwan
IND Muhammad Saeed
IND Muhammad Sajjad
IND Sami Ullah
IND Muhammad Abdullah
IND Abdul Qayyum
IND Muhammad Usman
IND Abid Zubair
IND Qayyum Yousaf
IND Raja Mazar Iqbal

LA 8 – Kotli I

PTI’s Zaffar Iqbal Malik
PML-N’s Zulfiqar Ali
J&K UM’s Sanwal Shareef Akash
JK PP’s Shahzad Ahmed
TLP’s Malik Zaheer Ahmed
QIP’s Aqib Amir
PPP’s Muhammad Aftab Anjum
JI’s Muhammad Arif
AII J&K MC’s Malik Muhammad Nawaz Khan
IND Amjad Rasheed
IND Syed Amir Arshad Ali Shah
IND Muhammad Zaman
IND Muhammad Faiz Malik

LA 9 – Kotli II

PPP’s Javed Iqbal Budhanvi-24,276 votes
AII J&K MC’s Sardar Muhammad Naeem Khan-19,484 votes
PTI’s Asif Hanif
PML-N’s Munir Hussain Khan
PPP’s Muhammad Raqib Shaheen
TLP’s M.Shabeer Tabassum
IND Asif Mumtaz
IND Khizer Iftikhar
IND Shadia Shaheen
IND Shah Nawaz Ali
IND Masood Ahmed
IND Muhammad Baseer Khan Sarwar
IND Muhammad Naeem Khan
IND Waqar Ahmed Khan

LA 10 – Kotli III

PPP’s Muhammad Yasin Chaudhary
AAPP’s Anees Butt
PML-N’s Zubair Iqbal Kayani
JK Liberation League’s Shakil Ahmed Rathore
JI’s Abdul Hameed Chaudhary
QIP’s Sardar Abdur Rehman Khan
PPP’s Raja Imran Adil
TLP’s Muhammad Tasneem Azeem
AII J&K MC’s Muhammad Farooq Khan
PTI’s Malik Muhammad Yousaf
IND Ahmed Faheem
IND Rizwan Ahmed
IND Shakeel Mehmood
IND Asim Javed
IND Atif Ikram
IND Abdur Rehman
IND Chaudhary Abdul Qayyum
IND Irfan Arif Chaudhary
IND Lal Hussain
IND Liaqat Hussain Mughal
IND Syed Majid Bukhari
IND Muhammad Iltas Chaudhary
IND Muhammad Amjad
IND Muhammad Masood Raza
IND Muhammad Najeeb Raja
IND Chaudhary Nasir Kamal Yousaf
IND Nazam Hussain

LA 11 – Kotli IV

PTI’s Ch.Muhammad Ikhlaq
AII J&K MC’s Raja Iftikhar Hussain
J&K UM’s Babar Hussain
QIP’s Sardar Abdul Rehman Khan
PPP’s Sardar Muhammad Bashir Pehlwan
AAPP’s Muhammad Bashir
TLP’s Muhammad Habib
JI’s Muhammad Mehfooz
PML-N’s Raja Muhammad Naseer
IND Abu Bakar
IND Sardar Zaffar Iqbal
IND Muhammad Akram
IND Muhammad Babar
IND Mehfooz Hussain

LA 12- Kotli V (Awaited)

TLP’s Arshad Mehmood
JK PP’s Bashrat Hussain
PTI’s Shauqat Fareed
JI’s Ghafarat Shaid
PML-N’s Muhammad Riasat Khan
JK Liberation League’s Muhamamd Sharyar Zaffar
PPP’s Muhammad Yasin
AAPP’s Maqsood Ahmed
AII J&K MC’s Naeem Mansab Dad Khan
IND Haider Ali Tepu
IND Zulfiqar Ahmed
IND Robina Shaheen
IND Saeed Hussain
IND Aqeel ur Rehman
IND Muhammad Alyas
IND Muhammad Munir
IND Mumtaz Ahmed
IND Nusrat Hussain

LA 13 – Kotli VI

PTI’s Ansar Abdali
TLP’s Arslan Faiz
PML-N’s Ayaz Ahmed
JI’s Ch. Habib ur Rehman
PPP’s Amar Farooq
AII J&K MC’s Muhammad Rasheed
PPP’s Muhammad Waleed
MQMP’s Waseem Zulfiqar
IND Javed Iqbal
IND Ch. Nisar Ahmed
IND Zubair Hussain
IND Shadab Sikandar
IND Abdul Qayyum Sabri
IND Abdul Qayyu Qamar
IND Muhammad Asad
IND Muhammad Waseem Kafiat
IND Nasreen Akhtar

LA 14 - Bagh I

Muslim Conference's Sardar Attique
JK PP’s Abrar Ahmed
J&K UM’s Akhtar Hussain
JI’s Imtiaz Ahmed Abbasi
JI’s Khalid Mehmood Khan
PPP’s Muhamad Khawar Khan
TLP’s Muhammad Usman Abbasi
PML-N’s Raja Faisal Azad
PTI’s Muhammad Latif Khalique-13,429 votes

LA 15 - Bagh II

PTI’s Tanveer Ilyas
PPP’s Rahida Riaz
PPP’s Sardar Zia-ul-Qamar
JI’s Abdul Rasheed Tarabi
JUI’s Abdul Rasheed
TLP’s Masood Hayat
PML-N’s Mushtaq Ahmed Minhas
MQMP’s Muhammad Gulzar Khan

LA 16 - Bagh III (Results to be announced after re-polling)

PML-N’s Ejaz Ahmed
PTI’s Sardar Mir Akbar Khan
PPP’s Sardar Muhammad Rafique Baig
PPP’s Sardar Qamar-uz-Zaman Khan
TLP’s Saddam Aziz
JI’s Muhammad Sajid Khan
MQMP’s Muhammad Rafique Hashmi

LA 17 - Bagh IV

PPP’s Raja Faisal Mumtaz Rathore
TLP’s Tanveer Hussain Siddiqui
PML-N’s Ch. Muhammad Aziz
PTI’s Amir Nazir Choudhary

LA 18 - Poonch and Sudhnuti I

PTI’s Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan Nayazi-24,323 votes
PPP’s Muhammad Ishfaq Khan
PPP’s Sardar Amjad Yousaf Khan
JI’s Zulfiqar Ahmed Khan
TLP’s Tariq Aziz
PML-N’s Ch. Muhammad Yasin Gulshan-15,769 votes

LA 19 - Poonch and Sudhnuti II

PML-N’s Sardar Amir Iltaf Khan
PTI’s Sardar Arzash Sadozai
PPP’s Saood bin Sadiq
TLP’s Gulbaz Khan
JI’s Muhammad Sarfraz

LA 20 - Poonch and Sudhnuti III

PPP’s Sardar Muhammad Yaqoub Khan- 11,925 votes
PML-N’s Abdul Rashid Khan-4,883 votes
PTI’s Khattab Azam
JUI’s Riaz Ahmed Nomani
TLP’s Shafat Hussain
JI’s Zahid Rafiq

LA 21 - Poonch and Sudhnuti IV

Jammu Kashmir Peoples Party's Hassan Ibrahim Khan-8,171 votes
PML-N’s Tahir Anwer Khan
TLP’s Muhammad Abid Hussain
JI’s Sardar Qayyum Afsar Khan
JUI’s Dr Muhammad Irfan Kiyani
PPP’s Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan
PTI’s Nayyar Ayoub Khan

LA 22 - Poonch and Sudhnuti V

PTI’s Shahida Sagar
PPP’s Syed Dilawar Hussain Bukhari
PML-N’s Sardar Abdul Khaliq Wasi
JI’s Muhammad Sajjad Khan
TLP’s Muhammad Naeem Khan

LA 23 - Poonch and Sudhnuti VI

PTI’s Sardar Muhammad Hussain Khan
JI’s Arslan Nisar
QIP’s Shoukat Hussain Gohar
PPP’s Muhammad Raees Khan
PML-N’s Muhammad Najeeb Khan
TLP’s Naseem Ahmed Khan

LA 24 - Poonch and Sudhnuti VII

PTI’s Faheem Rabbani-30,787 votes
PML-N’s Farooq Ahmed Tahir-24,365 votes
TLP’s Zulfiqar Ali
JI’s Sardar Arshad Nadeem Advocate
QIP’s Abdul Ghafoor Khan
PPP’s Innyat Ullah

LA 25 - Neelum Valley I

PML-N’s Shah Ghulam Qadir
JI’s Muhammad Altaf Kashmiri
TLP’s M. Ayyun Sheikh
PPP’s Mian Abdul Waheed
AAPP’s Sajid Gul
PTI’s Sardar Gul Khandan
MQMP’s Shokat Hussain
QIP’s Tauseef-Ur-Rehman
Pak Kashmir Party’s Syed Manzoor Akbar Shah

LA 26 - Neelum Valley II

PPP’s Mian Abdul Waheed
PTI’s Raja Muhammad Ilyas
PML-N’s Raja Basheer Khan
Pak Kashmir Party’s Zaheer Ahmed
JI’s Anayat Ali Awan
MQMP’s Muhib-ur-Rahman
JUI’s Mahrouf Ahmed
TLP’s Mian Muhammad Khabib

LA 27 -Muzaffarabad I

PPP’s Sardar M Javed
MQMP’s Babir Iman Khan Ikhwanzada
PTI’s Mir Atique ur Rehman
TLP’s Mir Fahad Mushtaq
PML-N’s Noreen Arif
JUI’s Hafiz Waqas Ahmed

LA 28 - Muzaffarabad II

PPP’s Syed Bazil Ali Naqvi
PTI’s Ch. Shahzad Mehmood
JI’s Raja Asad Khan
PML-N’s Ayed Murtaza Gillani
TLP’s Syed Shahbeer Hussain Kazmi
AAPP’s Naila Shahzaman

LA 29 - Muzaffarabad III

PTI’s Khawaja Farooq Ahmed
PML-N’s Syed Iftikhar Gillani
PPP’s Raja Jamal Abdul Nasir
MQMP’s Junaid Ahmed Mir
TLP’s Malik Fiaz
PPP’s Sardar Mubarak Haider
JI’s Syed Nazeer Hussain Shah

LA 30 - Muzaffarabad IV

PTI’s Muhammad Rasheed- 18,119 votes
PPP’s Ayed Iftekhar Hussain Shah
TLP’s Shaukat Hussain
PPP’s Mubashir Muneer Awan-10,003 votes
JI’s Muhammad Bashir Awan
PML-N’s Mustafa Bashir Abbasi-10,490 votes
All J&K MC’s Syed Tassawar Abbas Musavi

LA 31 - Muzaffarabad V

PPP’s Chaudhry Latif Akbar- 22,824 votes
Muslim Conference's Raja Saqib Majeed-21,481 votes
PTI’s Raja Muhammad Mansoor Khan-9,175 votes
PML-N’s Raja Ibrar Hussain Khan
JI’s Qazi Shahid Majeed
TLP’s Muhammad Ashraf
MQMP’s Syed Waqarat Hussain Shah

LA 32 - Muzaffarabad VI

PML-N’s Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider Khan-15,590 votes
PPP’s Muhammad Ashfaq Zaffar-15,100 votes
JUI’s Altaf Hussain Siddique
JI’s Raja Muhammad Mushtaq Khan
PTI’s Syed Zeeshan Haider Kazmi
TLP’s Muhammad Ashfaq Hashmi

LA 33- Muzaffarabad VII

PTI’s Deewan Ali Chughtai- 26,474 votes
PML-N’s Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider Khan (AK PM)
JI’s Syed Ali Imad-ul-Islam
TLP’s Abdul Razzaq
JUI’s Mukhtar Ahmed Kiani
PPP’s Muhammad Javed

Refugee seats

These 12 seats are reserved for Kashmiri refugees who migrated from the Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir in 1947 and 1965 and are settled in various parts of Pakistan.

LA 34 - Jammu I [Balochistan, Sindh, Multan, Bahawalpur, Dera Ghazi Khan, Faisalabad, Sargodha, and Lahore]

PTI’s Riaz Ahmed
PPP’s Zahid Iqbal
PSP’s Shah Abdul Latif Faisal
TLP’s Fazal Ur Rehman
PML-N’s Nasir Hussain Dar

LA 35 - Jammu II [Gujranwala, Hafizabad, Sialkot's Daska, Pasroor and Samrial]

PTI’s Maqbool Ahmad Gujjar
PML-N’s Ch. Muhammad Ismail
PPP’s Khalid Mehmood Chaudhary
PPP’s Muhammad Iqbal
TLP’s Muhammad Arif

LA 36 - Jammu III [Sialkot]

PTI’s Hafiz Hamid Raza
PPP’s Choudhry Shaukat Ali
TLP’s Rana Adnan Jamil
PPP’s Faiz Ullah
PML-N’s Muhammad Ishaq

LA 37 - Jammu IV [Narowal]

PTI’s Muhammad Akmal Sargala
TLP’s Arslan Rasheed
PML-N’s Muhammad Siddique Chaudhry
PPP’s Mazhar Yousaf Choudhary

LA 38 - Jammu V [Gujranwala's Wazirabad, Gujrat, and Mandi Bahauddin]

PTI’s Muhammad Akbar Chaudhry
PML-N’s Zeeshan Ali
TLP’s Zafar Iqbal Chaudhry
PPP’s Muhammad Ashraf Chughtai
JI’s Muhammad Umer Siddique

LA 39 - Jammu VI [Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Rawalpindi, and Islamabad]

PML-N’s Raja Muhammad Siddique-9,557 votes
PTI’s Nazia Niaz-7,510 votes
PPP’s Chaudhry Fakhar Zaman
TLP’s Rashid Mehmood

LA 40 - Kashmir Valley I [Balochistan and Sindh]

PPP’s Amir Abdul Ghaffar Lone-2,165 votes
PSP’s Shabir Ahmed Khan
PML-N’s Tahir Ali Wani
PTI’s Muhammad Saleem Butt-875 votes

LA 41 - Kashmir Valley II [Lahore]

PTI’s Ghulam Mohyidin Dewan
PPP’s Shabbir Abbas Mir
PML-N’s Muhammad Ikram Butt
All J&K MC’s Syed Maqsood Gillani

LA 42 - Kashmir Valley III [Bahawalpur, Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Jhelum, and Chakwal]

PTI’s Muhammad Asim Sharif-1,254 votes
PPP’s Hafeez Ahmed Butt
All J&K MC’s Rana Sarfaraz Ahmed
JI’s Saeed Ahmed Khan
PML-N’s Syed Shoukat Ali Shah-1,205 votes

LA 43 - Kashmir Valley IV [Ward 15 to 50 in Rawalpindi]

PTI’s Javed Butt-782 votes
PPP’s Hamza Majid Bazmi
PML-N’s Naseema Khatoon-720 votes

LA 44 - Kashmir Valley V [Ward 1 to 14 of Rawalpindi, Cantonment ward 1 to 10, Islamabad, and Attock]

PML-N’s Muhammad Ahmed Raza Qadri
PTI’s Bashir Ahmed Khan
PPP’s Muhammad Rashid Aslam
TLP’s Naseerullah Khan Durrani

LA 45 - Kashmir Valley VI [Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]

PTI’s Abdul Majid Khan
IND Ahmed Mushahid Mushtaq
IND Abdul Nasir Khan
JI’s Noor-ul-Bari

Live updates

3:44PM: A group of PPP supporters attacked PTI's Asif Hanif on his visit to the polling station in Nakial. They accused him of rigging after which a fight broke out between members of both the parties.

3:19PM: A man was arrested from LA-36 Jammu III's polling station in Sialkot for carrying weapons. The police seized three magazine guns and 40 bullets from his possession. Display of weapons and carrying firearms is strictly prohibited under the electoral rule

2PM: Four FC officers were injured in a fight between the supporters of two parties at a polling station for women in Muzaffarabad's Chattian.

12:23PM: At least 10 people were injured after a fight broke out between PPP and PTI workers in LA-15 Bagh's polling station 86. FC and Pakistan Rangers personnel have reached the site. Voting at the station has been stopped. Injured people have been moved to the hospital.

12PM: Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Farooq Haider has claimed that security forces are collaborating with PTI candidates in Muzaffarabad VII's Dara Batangi and Banayia.

I was told just now that in MZD 7 Dara Batangi and Banayia law enforcing agencies are collaborating with PTI candidate
— Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider Khan (@farooq_pm) July 25, 2021

11:45AM: Polling at LA-35 Jammu II in Gujranwala's Satellite halted after PML-N leaders were found inside the polling station. The deputy commissioner has reached the site and is vacating the station. Two people have been arrested.

11AM: PPP Senator Taj Haider, in a letter to the election commission, accused PTI workers of opening fire at the car of PPP workers at polling stations 91, 92, 93, 94,95, and 101. The police have, on the other hand, arrested LA-30's chief polling agent Zarrar Khan.

In Abbottabad, a fight broke out between the supporters of two independent candidates. The police have reached the site and dispersed the crowd.

10:39AM: Two people were killed and two injured in an exchange of fire between the workers of PPP and PTI at a polling station in Kotli's LA-12. Display of weapons and carrying firearms is strictly prohibited under the electoral rule. Voting at the polling station has resumed.

9:40AM: The PPP accused PTI of harassing voters at LA-34's polling station 481. "They are not letting people vote," a PPP worker claimed. The opposition party claimed that two polling agents of LA-9's polling station 18 have disappeared. A written complaint has been sent to the election commission.

9:39AM: PPP wrote a letter to the secretary of the election commission accusing PTI workers of forcefully removing camps outside polling station 20 in LA-44. The police are instructing people to vote for certain candidates, the letter said.

8:30AM: Six people were arrested outside a polling station for LA-45 in Peshawar. It was reported that a fight broke out between polling agents and workers of a political party. The voting resumed after a delay of 30 minutes. The voters are being allowed inside The City School No 2 following strict security checking.

Voters and security

Over 2.8 million voters have been registered in Azad Kashmir and 0.4 million in Jammu. According to the AJK Election Commission, as many as 301,400 voters will exercise their right to vote in Mirpur district; 287,536 in Bhimber district; 540,646 in Kotli district, and 286,864 in Bagh district.

The AJK government has handed over the security of the upcoming election to the Pakistan Army. More than 44,000 security personnel will be deployed at polling stations across the region as per Article 245 of the Constitution. The Pakistan Army troops will be deployed from July 22 to July 26.

Police, assisted by LEAs from other provinces and Civil Armed Forces, including Rangers and FC, will be employed for the smooth and peaceful conduct of AJK Elections

The government has declared 1,209 polling stations sensitive and 826 most sensitive. Control rooms will be established across the region at the district level to ensure a smooth flow of voting.

The last elections were held in 2016, in which PML-N bagged 31 seats, PPP won three seats, PTI won two, and the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Party won one seat. Of the total 29 seats, PML-N took 22. The remaining it won from 12 constituencies across Pakistan.