July 27, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Close to two million votes were polled in Sunday’s general elections to the Azad Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly (AJKLA) with a meagre proportion cast in the 12 seats for Kashmiri refugees settled in Pakistan.
Calculations done by The News reveal that some 1,994,712 ballots out of a total of 3,220,793 registered votes were polled for the 33 seats of AJK territory and 12 seats for refugees. Of them, as many as 1,746,553 ballots were cast in the AJK region while just 248,159 votes were polled in Pakistan.
The winning political parties – the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and All J&K Muslim Conference (AJ&KMC), excepting the Kashmir People’s Party (KPP) – secured a total of 1,702,922 votes apart from the ballots of the Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), which failed to get even a single seat anywhere.
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