ISLAMABAD – According to ECP, the total number of votes polled was 52.8million. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf got the popular vote, receiving 16.85million votes while PMLN, its biggest competitor, got 12.89 million votes.In third came PPPP, with almost ten million votes lesser than PTI, grabbing6.89 million 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.