ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has published the preliminary delimitation of constituencies for information of general public.
According to an ECP notification, the publication of delimitation of constituencies will continue till June 30. The voter of a relevant constituency can file representation till end of this month. The ECP will hear and dispose of objections from July 1 – 30.
As per the preliminary delimitation of constituencies, the ECP has revised the National Assembly seats from 342 to 336. The number of general seats in the NA will decrease from 272 to 266.
Balochistan will have 16 general seats in the National Assembly, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will have 45, Punjab 141, Sindh 61, and Islamabad will have three seats.
The seats of erstwhile federally administered tribal areas (FATA) have been merged with KP. Women will have 60 reserved seats while minorities will have 10 seats.
A National Assembly constituency in KP has been demarcated at 788,933 people, Islamabad 667,789, Punjab 780,069, Sindh 784,500, and Balochistan 77,946.
KP’s NA seats will begin with Chitral from NA-1 to NA-45. The seats from Islamabad will be from NA-46 to NA-48, Punjab’s constituencies will start from Attock’s NA-49 and end at NA-189 in Rajanpur.
Sindh’s seats will start from NA-190 Jacobabad and continue till NA-250 Karachi, while Balochistan’s constituencies will be from NA-251 to NA-266.
Balochistan Assembly will have 65 seats overall out of which 51 will be general seats, KP Assembly will have 145 seats out of which 115 will be general seats.
Punjab will have 371 seats out of which 297 will be general seats while the Sindh Assembly will have 168 seats out of which 130 will be general seats.
The ECP has fixed a constituency of KP Assembly at 308,713 voters, Punjab Assembly 370,336, Sindh Assembly 368,112, and Balochistan Assembly 241,864.
