NA-34 (Lower Dir)
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Former constituency of the National Assembly of Pakistan
| NA-34 (Lower Dir) | |
|---|---|
| Former constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
| Region | Lower Dir District |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1977 |
| Abolished | 2018 |
| Replaced by | NA-6 (Lower Dir-I) NA-7 (Lower Dir-II) |
NA-34 (Lower Dir) (Urdu: این اے-۳۴، لور دیر) was a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. It was split into NA-6 (Lower Dir-I) and NA-7 (Lower Dir-II) in 2018.[1]
1970—1977 NW-15 Chitral-cum-Dir
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Jafir Ali Shah | PML(Qayyum) | |
1977—1988: NA-25 Malakand-cum-Dir
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Gauhar Rehman | PNA | |
| 1985 | Maulana Muhammad Inayat-ur-Rehman | Independent | |
1988—2002: NA-25 Dir
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Sahibzada Fathullah | IJI | |
| 1990 | Najmuddin Khan | PDA | |
| 1993 | Sahibzada Fathullah | PIF | |
| 1997 | Inayat Khan | PML(N) | |
Since 2002: NA-34 Lower Dir
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Qazi Hussain Ahmad | MMA | |
| 2008 | Malak Azmat Khan | PPPP | |
| 2013 | Sahibzada Muhammad Yaqoob | JI | |
Elections since 2002
2002 General Election
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 MMA |
Qazi Hussain Ahmad | 53,799 | 59.33 | ||
 ANP |
Muhammad Ayub Khan | 34,078 | 37.58 | ||
.svg){kind=small} PTI |
Muhammad Bashir Khan | 1,136 | 1.25 | ||
.svg){kind=small} PML-Q |
Sardar Abul Hakeem Tajak Advocate | 1,123 | 1.24 | ||
| Independent | Aurangzeb Khan | 313 | 0.35 | ||
| PML-N |
Muhammad Rashid Khan Advocate | 224 | 0.25 | ||
| Majority | 19,721 | 21.75 | |||
| Turnout | 90,673 | 28.28 | |||
| MMA gain from Independent | |||||
A total of 2,072 votes were rejected.
2003 By-election
Qazi Hussain Ahmad won the general election in 2002 but he decided to take up the seat that he won in his native constituency, and thus vacated the seat. Therefore, in January 2003 bye-elections were held.[3] The results are shown in the following table.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMA |
Abdul Ghafoor Ghawas | 45,815 | 59.48 | +0.15 | |
 PPP (S) |
Ahmad Hassan Khan | 29,581 | 38.40 | ||
| PPP |
Aurangzeb Khan | 1,632 | 2.12 | ||
| Majority | 16,234 | 21.08 | |||
| MMA hold | Swing | ||||
2008 General Election
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPP |
Malak Azmat Khan | 38,068 | 48.34 | ||
| ANP |
Muhammad Ayoub Khan | 24,480 | 31.09 | −6.49 | |
| MMA |
Qazi Fazal Ullah | 11,449 | 14.54 | −44.79 | |
| PML |
Javed Iqbal | 3,366 | 4.27 | ||
| Independent | Shamsul Qamar Khan | 761 | 0.97 | ||
| Independent | Dr Bahramand Khan | 625 | 0.79 | ||
| Majority | 13,588 | 17.25 | |||
| Turnout | 78,749 | 24.20 | −4.08 | ||
| PPP gain from MMA | |||||
A total of 2,746 votes were rejected.
2013 General Election
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JI |
Sahibzada Muhammad Yaqoob | 49,475 | 33.13 | ||
| PTI |
Muhammad Bashir Khan | 45,066 | 30.18 | ||
 JUI-F |
Fazlullah | 22,552 | 15.10 | ||
| ANP |
Muhammad Azam Khan | 8,959 | 6.00 | −25.09 | |
| Tehreek-e-Pasmanada Awam Pakistan | Haji Muhammad Umar | 7,206 | 4.83 | ||
| PPP |
Malak Azmat Khan | 6,275 | 4.20 | −44.14 | |
| PML-N |
Farid Khan Yousafzai | 5,818 | 3.90 | ||
| Independent | Alam Khan | 2,218 | 1.49 | ||
| TTP | Rahimullah Khan | 810 | 0.54 | ||
| Independent | Mst Nasrat Begum | 187 | 0.13 | ||
| Independent | Malak Rahmatullah | 185 | 0.12 | ||
| Independent | Syed Nasar Shah | 181 | 0.12 | ||
| Independent | Hayatullah Khan Sadat | 163 | 0.11 | ||
| APML | Shafiur Rahman | 159 | 0.10 | ||
| MDM | Abdul Hanan | 77 | 0.05 | ||
| Majority | 4,409 | 2.95 | |||
| Turnout | 149,331 | 30.15 | +5.95 | ||
| JI gain from PPP | |||||
A total of 5,364 votes were rejected.
References
- ↑ Final List of National Assembly Constituencies (PDF). Election Commission of Pakistan. 2018. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-05-10. Retrieved 2018-05-19.
- ↑ "Pakistan GE Results 2002" (PDF). ECP.gov.pk. Election Commission of Pakistan. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2018-05-19.
- ↑ Asghar, Raja (16 January 2003). "PML-Q, MMA leading in polls: PPP boycotts on most seats; five killed in Sindh violence". dawn.com.
- ↑ dawn.com PML-Q, MMA leading in polls: PPP boycotts on most seats; five killed in Sindh violence
- 1 2 http://test1947.ecp.gov.pk/ConstResult.aspx?Const_Id=NA-34&type=NA [dead link]
External links
- Election result's official website