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Polling for the NA-120 seat, which was left vacant by Nawaz Sharif's ouster in the Panama verdict, has started in the Lahore constituency.

A total of 44 candidates are contesting for the National Assembly seat from Lahore. Pakistan Army personnel are supervising the polling process. The first vote of the election was cast at 8am on Sunday morning, DawnNews reported; polling will continue until 5pm.

A number of voters have turned up to chose their candidate in what looks to be a close competition between PML-N and PTI. According to DawnNews, voters are complaining that the process inside the polling stations is taking too long and that the Election Commission of Pakistan should take notice. Some of the polling stations were reported to be without electricity, causing inconvenience to the voters.

Only the voters are being allowed inside the polling stations by Rangers and army personnel, reported DawnNews.

Kulsoom Nawaz is defending the PML-N stronghold as a candidate of the ruling party while Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's (PTI) Dr Yasmin Rashid and PPP's Faisal Mir have also vowed to win the constituency.

The ECP has set up 220 polling stations — 103 for male voters, 98 for women and 19 joint polling stations for men and women voters. There are 321,786 voters, including 142,144 female voters. The ECP has delivered 350,000 ballot papers to the election staff.

For the first time in the history of Pakistan, Biometric Voter Verification Machines are also being tested in the Constituency. Some 30,000 voters will be polling their votes on biometric machines.

Among the candidates are Jamaat-i-Islami's (JI) Ziaur Rehman Ansari and the newly formed Milli Muslim League's independent candidate, Sheikh Mohammad Yaqoob.

At least 29,000 votes placed in voter lists of the constituency have been deemed "unverified". “The hard copy of 29,000-plus voters list given to the PTI on payment carries neither fingerprints, nor CNIC numbers nor family numbers,” claimed Dr Rashid of PTI.

This constituency has thrice elected Nawaz Sharif as the country’s prime minister since 1990.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1358256/polling-starts-in-momentous-na-120-by-election
 
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seems like it will be a Noora landslide

So the guy who waas disqualified, his wife is contesting but didn't bother to campaign and instead sent her daughter who has now launched her own son in politics
 
Please someone tell me why this seat's by-election is momentous. By elections are almost always won by the party in power and losing this would not cause any changes in the Parliament as to who controls the power. In the unlikely event of Kulsoom Nawaz losing, PML-N will blame it on rigging etc. and the other parties will do the same if she wins. Media needs to take a chill pill.
 
saadibaba said:
Please someone tell me why this seat's by-election is momentous. By elections are almost always won by the party in power and losing this would not cause any changes in the Parliament as to who controls the power. In the unlikely event of Kulsoom Nawaz losing, PML-N will blame it on rigging etc. and the other parties will do the same if she wins. Media needs to take a chill pill.
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Even if margin of victory contracts it means PML-N is losing support in its garh. It has won every election ever held here since its formation including in Musharraf time. If they dont win with as much margin and there is lack of enthusiasm then Panama case can said to have dented them.

There is a lot of focus so i dont think rigging will be a big issue and i highly doubt the sitting govt would hurl such allegations

in any case theres next to no chance they will lose
 
What many are anxious to find out is the margin of N-League's win. The margin will decide whether or not the Panama verdict has had any effect on Nawaz Sharif's popularity. Last time, Nawaz Sharif won by 50,000 votes, with him getting close to 100,000 votes with the PTI managing around 50,000.
 
Come on Lahore, Don't disappoint me today please !! It's been a difficult week already......
 
In 2013 Nawaz Sharif got 91000 votes and PTI's Yasmin Rashid got 52000 votes which was very encouraging for PTI considering it was Sharif's home seat.

PTI will be glad if margin is close to 10000
 
Waseem said:
In 2013 Nawaz Sharif got 91000 votes and PTI's Yasmin Rashid got 52000 votes which was very encouraging for PTI considering it was Sharif's home seat.

PTI will be glad if margin is close to 10000
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Yes, if PTI gets close to 60-65k votes then this would be encouraging considering real elections is only a year away.
 
Sana bucha shifting camps?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Today is PTIs day. Even if they lose, they have successfully eroded the PML-N vote bank in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NA120?src=hash">#NA120</a>. Losing by a minimum will set the course.</p>— Sana Bucha (@sanabucha) <a href="https://twitter.com/sanabucha/status/909347991139516416">September 17, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Sadly, the Nooras will win with a bigger majority as people see elections as a time to make money not to bring change. They may only have the morals of an alley cat,boy do the Nooras have money(stolen from the same poor people). They also know how to use. Remember Nooras Allah is the best of planners.
 
Nawaz Sharif ager chori karta hai to kya Zardari nahi karta? woh apne choor ko vote dayte hein hum apne choor ko dayengay : A PMLN Voter Today
 
Bewal Express said:
A ringing endorsement for the Nooras.
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I was watching some of the videos from NA 120 [MENTION=142451]Mian[/MENTION] shared yesterday

Quite a few said 'Corruption kee tu kya hwa aisa? Pehlay bhi hoi hai. Vote tu sher ka hai'
 
Polling for the NA-120 seat, which was left vacant by Nawaz Sharif's ouster in the Panama verdict, ended in the Lahore constituency after it continued uninterrupted throughout the day.

Long queues were seen outside the polling stations as people came out to cast their vote as early as 8am, DawnNews reported.

A total of 44 candidates are contesting for the National Assembly seat from Lahore. Pakistan Army personnel are supervising the polling process. The first vote of the election was cast at 8am on Sunday morning, DawnNews reported; and continued until 5pm.

Earlier, reports surfaced that media personnel were not being allowed inside the polling stations. The army's media wing, Inter-Services Public Relations, however, issued a statement saying that those media officials with ECP accreditation cards are visiting the stations. "No restrictions imposed by the army," read the statement.

A large number of voters turned up to choose their candidate in what has been predicted to be a close competition between PML-N and PTI. According to DawnNews, voters complained that the process inside the polling stations took too long and that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) should take notice.

Some of the polling stations were reported to be without electricity, causing inconvenience to the voters.


Voters also took to Twitter to complain of the alleged delay in the polling process, to which Maryam Nawaz replied, "Don't worry. Insha'Allah we will win."

Only the voters are being allowed inside the polling stations by Rangers and army personnel, reported DawnNews, adding that all the stations in the constituency have been declared "sensitive". To facilitate the registered voters, the ECP linked the 220 polling stations with Google Maps.

Hours after polling started, activists of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and PML-N almost came to blows at Cooper Road, chanting slogans against each other. Law enforcement personnel, however, warned the political workers of baton charge, following which the activists dispersed.

PTI's candidate Dr Yasmin Rashid, while speaking to the media on Sunday, expressed satisfaction at how the polling process was being carried out. She urged registered voters, particularly women, to come and cast their vote so as to "save the future of their offspring".

Faisal Mir of PPP, however, expressed his displeasure over the voting, alleging that the ECP was inclined in favour of the ruling PML-N. During a visit to a polling station, he said that the election is being rigged and that the PPP agents are forcefully being taken out of polling booths.

ECP official told DawnNews that no complaints about the voting process had been received.

All eyes on NA-120
This constituency has thrice elected Nawaz Sharif as the country’s prime minister since 1990. Kulsoom Nawaz is defending the PML-N stronghold as a candidate of the ruling party while PTI's Dr Rashid and PPP's Mir have also vowed to win the constituency.

The ECP had set up 220 polling stations — 103 for male voters, 98 for women and 19 joint polling stations for men and women voters. There were 321,786 voters, including 142,144 female voters. The ECP had delivered 350,000 ballot papers to the election staff.

For the first time in the history of Pakistan, Biometric Voter Verification Machines were also being tested in the constituency. Some 30,000 voters cast their votes on biometric machines. More than 100 biometric machines were installed at 39 polling stations.

Among the candidates were Jamaat-i-Islami's (JI) Ziaur Rehman Ansari and the newly formed Milli Muslim League's independent candidate, Sheikh Mohammad Yaqoob.

At least 29,000 votes placed in voter lists of the constituency had been deemed "unverified". “The hard copy of 29,000-plus voters list given to the PTI on payment carried neither fingerprints, nor CNIC numbers nor family numbers,” Dr Rashid had claimed earlier.

The ECP had told the Lahore High Court that the verification of votes was the responsibility of the National Database and Registration Authority. The ECP on Saturday had finally stated that the fingerprint records of more than 29,000 voters were not available with the Nadra. On the directions of the Lahore High Court, the ECP said it had made the list of those voters public.

Wide-scale campaigning
Amid door-to-door campaigns, rallies, development work, sloganeering, local brawls, blatant violation of the election code of conduct, and accusations being hurled left right and centre, the campaigns of all major political parties had come to a close, officially, on Friday night.

The PML-N’s campaign, led by Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz, was dead set against the apex court’s decision under the ex-PM’s slogan: ‘Mujhe Kyun Nikala’.

“The by-election result will serve as a litmus test to see how the people view the Supreme Court’s decision,” said an observer.

Besides wooing voters in the constituency, the PTI and PML-N had also run their campaigns on social media. Messages recorded by PTI’s Imran Khan and PML-N’s Khawaja Saad Rafique were circulated on WhatsApp, while several women activists of the PTI had called constituency voters on their cell phones urging them to vote for their party.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1358256/polling-ends-in-na-120-after-large-voter-turnout
 
Mian said:
Nawaz Sharif ager chori karta hai to kya Zardari nahi karta? woh apne choor ko vote dayte hein hum apne choor ko dayengay : A PMLN Voter Today
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Well technically he is kinda right you know. Sindhis continue to vote for Bhutto clan. Even educated urdu-speakers continue to back MQM. The only province that doesn't show outright political support for any party or clan is KPK. In Baluchistan generally the independents or big sardars win and they side with whoever is in power in the center.
 
Also people shouldn't be disappointed if PTI lose here. Kinda hard to beat Nawaz in Lahore and that too in NA-120. Our people have ghulaami mentality and it will take several decades to get over it.
 
Result of 4 polling stations coming through and Kulsoom Nawaz winning. Thank you Lahore.


:salute
 
Oh wait what's wrong here? Majority of news channels showing PTI ahead so far after the results of some polling station... If this trend continues i expect a repeat of 2013 and ECP will delay the result the further results of polling stations and change it within the night...

Even Geo News, Dunya and Express News showing PTI ahead something is surely wrong :yk
 
WebGuru said:
Oh wait what's wrong here? Majority of news channels showing PTI ahead so far after the results of some polling station... If this trend continues i expect a repeat of 2013 and ECP will delay the result the further results of polling stations and change it within the night...

Even Geo News, Dunya and Express News showing PTI ahead something is surely wrong :yk
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I thought ARY announced for 4 stations and Noon was ahead. Idk at this point results are a guessing game at best.
 
WebGuru said:
Oh wait what's wrong here? Majority of news channels showing PTI ahead so far after the results of some polling station... If this trend continues i expect a repeat of 2013 and ECP will delay the result the further results of polling stations and change it within the night...

Even Geo News, Dunya and Express News showing PTI ahead something is surely wrong :yk
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It's far too early but PMLN will never let PTI win. They will try all dirty tricks; the system is in their back pocket. This system is the issue.
 
Syed1 said:
Result of 4 polling stations coming through and Kulsoom Nawaz winning. Thank you Lahore.


:salute
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Bhai apka channel thora peeche he every News channel is not showing PTI ahead including Geo and all other pro PMLN channels :))

The only worrying sign for me is that so far the results coming are from the urban areas polling stations and this can change when the results from rural polling station starts coming...
 
Syed1 said:
I thought ARY announced for 4 stations and Noon was ahead. Idk at this point results are a guessing game at best.
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Overall so far PTI is ahead according to most channels but these results are from urban areas polling stations and PMLN enjoy great support in rural polling stations.
 
King-Misbah said:
It's far too early but PMLN will never let PTI win. They will try all dirty tricks; the system is in their back pocket. This system is the issue.
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Yea expecting same a delay in further results if the trend continues
 
Too close to call PTI in the lead albeit a TINY one.
 
Dr Yasmin deserve all the credit for her door to door campaign!
 
Most channels now showing at least 1000 lead for Yasmin and those channels include Geo News!
 
For those who don't know PPP candidate Faisal Mir is the brother of Hamid Mir.
 
WebGuru said:
Most channels now showing at least 1000 lead for Yasmin and those channels include Geo News!
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This time the voting was through bio-metric so less chance of ballot box stuffing..
 
But but but as per Ayesha Gulalai PTI mein auratoon ki izzat nahi hai.
 
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Syed1 said:
But but but as per Ayesha Gulalai PTI mein auratoon ki izzat nahi hai.
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She need to learn from Dr Yasmin how to create your own constituency work hard and create vote bank instead of milking party for reserve seat.
 
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Syed1 said:
What?!?!?!?


Then what happened? If that isn't pre-poll rigging I don't know what is.
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Biro metric was being tested just on few polling stations. I think the old system was present there to replace bio metric in case of failure. Don't know when ECP is going to learn because their Bio Metric system failed in almost every by election they tested.
 
WebGuru said:
Biro metric was being tested just on few polling stations. I think the old system was present there to replace bio metric in case of failure. Don't know when ECP is going to learn because their Bio Metric system failed in almost every by election they tested.
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Sometimes failure is on purpose to achieve another end goal
 
Using Kulsoom was the biggest blunder by PMLN and Sharif family because losing here means a big lose for PMLN as a party and bigger lose for Sharif family's politics and biggest for Maryam because she was leading the campaign and starting her political career from here.
 
Lead greater than 1000 now.



9283 PTI
8227 PMLN



Yasmin aunty jaldi se nos lagain aur lead panch dus hazaar pe leh jain...
 
We will get a clear picture after 100 polling stations results. There are a total of 220+ polling stations.
 
34/220 polling stations:

PTI 10220
PML-N 9103
 
PTI got around 1500 votes from just 1 polling station! Iss polling station area ke log kuch zyada he ghusa nikaal rahe he Noon per :)))
 
It would be ironic if Noon league loses this election and cry dhandli dhandli... I'm hundred percent sure they will
 
Just curious, but why do Bol News and PAK News seem to have almost the exact same graphics? And both of their websites have the exact same content but a different theme.
 
If Kulsoom wins after a close fight this is still a big lose for PMLN because they won this seat with a lead of 40k in 2013 without any effort and for the first time now they had to do a full campaign in this constituency to make sure their win. Well done Dr Yasmin!
 
hussain.r97 said:
Just curious, but why do Bol News and PAK News seem to have almost the exact same graphics? And both of their websites have the exact same content but a different theme.
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They are being run by same company Axact.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="lt" dir="ltr">PTI...13245<br>Pmln...11025</p>— Dr.Danish (@DrDanish5) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrDanish5/status/909411749014761472">September 17, 2017</a></blockquote>
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My God, If PTI wins this..
 
Remember NA-120 is the Larkana (PPP) and Azizabad (MQM) of PMLN.
 
Strike! said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="lt" dir="ltr">PTI...13245<br>Pmln...11025</p>— Dr.Danish (@DrDanish5) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrDanish5/status/909411749014761472">September 17, 2017</a></blockquote>
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My God, If PTI wins this..
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PTI needs to be well in the lead before rural results start coming in to stand a chance
 
For those who don't know the old number of this constituency is NA-95 and Imran got around 5300 votes back in 1997 against Nawaz Sharif when Imran started his political career.
 
Interestingly pro PTI channels Samaa and Ary are showing Kulsoom ahead now while pro PMLN channels Geo, Express and Dunya showing PTI ahead :13: What's going on lol
 
WebGuru said:
Interestingly pro PTI channels Samaa and Ary are showing Kulsoom ahead now while pro PMLN channels Geo, Express and Dunya showing PTI ahead :13: What's going on lol
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Express and Dunya are playing games..PMLN will win this but with a narrow margin. Daku and lying daughter will be back in PM house soon.
 
Looks like NA-122 type close fight where Aleem Khan lost by around 2k votes and got 70k+
 
PMLN winning on ARY
PTI winning on GEO

Kill me please :yk
 
PTI lead is back on Samaa although very tiny

PTI 6317
PMLN 6301
 
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