NA-249 by-poll: Voting underway for Karachi seat Pakistan File photo of votes ballotting votes. KARACHI: The voting for the by-poll in the NA-249 constituency has begun at 8am and will continue till 5pm without any interval. The National Assembly seat fell vacant after PTI's Faisal Vawda resigned. There are 30 candidates in the electoral arena, including PML-N’s Miftah Ismail, PTI's Amjad Afridi, PPP'S Qadir Khan Mandokhel, Karachi’s former mayor Mustafa Kamal and MQM's Hafiz Mursaleen, besides 18 independent candidates. There are over 339,000 registered voters in NA-249 - 201,656 male and 137,935 female - who will exercise their right to vote on 276 polling stations.