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By-Election  22 August, 2013 


By-Election for 41 seats including 5 National Assembly seats and 26 Provincial Assembly seats across the country held on 22 August 2013. Election on 42 seat was banned by Election Commission Of Pakistan due to some unavoidable circumstances. Voting remained in process from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Army Troops were deployed on some sensitive polling stations to ensure security for conducting safe and peaceful elections..

These seats were vacated by those members who won seats more than 1 seats in May 2013 General Election and also on  those seats where candidates were killed or disqualified on charge of fake education degrees and certificates.

More than 500 candidates participated in these elections today. About 8 million voters had their right to cast their vote to the contesting candidates. Total turn-out of voters was 39.61 % .

PML(N), PTI, PPPP, JUI, MQM, JI, ANP were the major parties who participated in these elections. Up to the latest un-official reports, PML(N) is leading in these elections with . ANP won the seat of Peshawar which was vacated by Imran khan, PML(N) won the seat of Mianwali which was ealier vacated by Imran Khan. However PTI retained its Islamabad seat which was vacated by Javed Hashmi. Another set back was for PML(N) for losing Shahbaz's seat.