ISLAMABAD – Polling for the General Elections 2018 was held for 270 out ofthe 272 general National Assembly seats and the Election Commission ofPakistan (ECP) has announced the detailed results for the 270 seats. ImranKhans’ Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has been crowned as the single largestparty with 116 seats, with the Pakistan Muslim League (N) coming in secondwith 64 seats and the Pakistan People Party Parliamentarians ranking thirdwith 43 seats.
According to ECP, the total number of votes polled was 52.8 million.Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf got the popular vote, receiving 16.85 millionvotes while PMLN, its biggest competitor, got 12.89 million votes. In thirdcame PPPP, with almost ten million votes lesser than PTI, grabbing 6.89million votes of the total votes polled.
As far as the provincial breakup goes, PTI was the most popular party intwo out of the four provinces, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In Punjabalone, PTI got 11.1 million votes, while in KPK it got 2.1 million votes.PTI was the third and fourth largest party in Sindh and Balochistanrespectively.
The PML-N, on the other hand, lost its throne in Punjab and came in second,grabbing 10.5 million votes, while PPPP, conforming to tradition, was themost popular party in Sindh with 3.8 million votes.
The most popular party of Balochistan was Balochistan Awami Party, with .43million votes, while the MMA was the second biggest party.
The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal Pakistan bagged the fourth highest number ofvotes nationally with 2.5 million votes, and the newly formedTehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan got 2.1 million votes nationally, becoming thefifth largest party.