By NNN-APP
Islamabad : Three major political parties and their allies bagged total 27,140,067 votes during contest on 264 National Assembly seats in February 18 polls.
Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP), Pakistan Muslim League (PML) and its coalition partners in the previous government and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) emerged as the maximum vote securing parties.
According to the statistics from Election Commission of Pakistan, former ruling alliance comprising Pakistan Muslim League, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) and Pakistan Peoples Party-Sherpao (PPP-S) secured 40% votes while expected ruling parties PPPP and PML-N got 37% and 23% votes respectively.
These statistics show that out of total vote cast former ruling coalition bagged 10,844,233 votes followed by PPPP with 10,055,491 votes and PML-N with 6,240,343 votes.
According to unofficial results so far, PPPP is on top by winning 88 National Assembly seats followed by PML-N’s 66 seats and PML’s 41 seats. PML allied parties, MQM, PML-F and PPP-S have secured 20, four and one seats respectively and if counted collectively, the seats of the former coalition and PML-N are equal (66 seats each).
Pakistan Muslim League and its two allied parties PML-F and PPP-S have collectively bagged 46 seats while out of total secured votes, these parties bagged 31% (8,324,201 votes) of total vote cast.
Another major coalition partner of PML, Muttahida Qaumi Movement secured 9% (2,520,032 votes) out of total vote cast.
These statistics show that when compared with PPPP, the former ruling coalition comprising PML, MQM, PML-F and PPP-S bagged 788,742 more votes than PPPP. The coalition also beat the PML-N in vote count by securing 4,603,890 more votes more than PML-N.