SWAT: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate Fazal Maula has won PK-7Swat by-poll by security 18,042 as per the unofficial and unconfirmedresults.
As per details, PTI has beaten the 12-party alliance of PDM. PTI’s FazalMaula secured 18,042 votes, while PDM-supported ANP candidate, HussainAhmed managed to bag 14,665 votes, as per unconfirmed and unofficialresults.
The seat had fallen vacant following the death of ANP MPA Waqar Ahmad Khanfrom cardiac arrest on April 30.
Haji Fazal Maula of the PTI, Hussain Ahmad Khan of the ANP, Daulat Khan ofthe Tehreek-i-Inqilab Political Movement and independent Mohammad Ali Shahare in the running.
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The mainstream political parties except the PTI had decided not to contestthe election citing the sacrifices of the deceased’s family during the2007-09 Swat insurgency as the reason.
PK-7 is the home constituency of the central PTI leader and formercommunications minister, Murad Saeed. The ANP has already complained aboutthe ‘active campaign’ by provincial ministers for the PTI nominee.
