ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is likely to get 25 reservedseats for women whole reserved seats for minorities in the lower house ofparliament, the provisional results of the elections suggest.
The PTI was successful in gaining a majority of 116 seats in the lowerhouse. The party is expected to be left with at least 110 seats after thosewho were elected from multiple areas select a single constituency.
It has the largest chunk of 15 reserved seats for women in the NationalAssembly (NA) from Punjab followed by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) with sevenseats and Sindh with three.
It is worth mentioning here that the tally of reserved seats could bechanged with the inclusion independent legislators in the party.
Out of 342 NA seats, 60 are reserved for women while 10 for minorities thatare distributed among parties under a defined formula [total NA seatsmultiplied by obtained seats and reserved seats] and in proportion to theirvictory on directly contested NA seats in each province.
A total of 10 NA seats have been reserved for minorities. The seats forminorities are not allotted on the basis of representation in provinces.
In the house of 272 directly contested seats, a seat reserved forminorities could be obtained by winning 27.2 general seats in NA.
Pakistan Muslim League is likely to get 14 reserved seats for women whilePakistan People Party is likely to get 9 seats in NA. PML-N and PPP arelikely to get two seats reserved for minorities.
The notification of reserved seats will be issued after issuingnotification of candidates declared successful on general seats. – APP