The PML-N grabbed nine out of the 13 constituencies of Azad Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s (AJK) Mirpur division in yesterday\u2019s elections, preliminary results issued by the Election Commission showed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Polls in AJK are being held in three phases<\/a> over security concerns, with the first set of polls held in Mirpur division<\/a> on Monday. Scuffles, violence and allegations of rigging<\/a> had marred the polling process, with the PML-N and PPP accusing each other of electoral malpractice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to preliminary results issued by the AJK Election Commission (Forms-26 and Forms-27), the PML-N emerged as the winner in nine constituencies, while the PPP could secure only four seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Form-27 lists cumulative results based on votes cast on the polling day and by the election staff in advance polling<\/a>. Form-26 comprises only the ballots cast on the main polling day, July 27, in this case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following an intense election campaign by both parties in the lead-up to the polls, the PML-N emerged victorious in Mirpur district\u2019s Dadyal and Khari Sharif; Bhimber district\u2019s Barnala, Samahni and Bhimber; and Kotli district\u2019s Nakyal, Sehnsa, Charhoi and Khuiratta, according to unofficial results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, the PPP secured the key city of Mirpur, as well as the district\u2019s Chakswari, along with two seats in Kotli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In LA-1 (Mirpur-I), PML-N\u2019s Azhar Sadiq<\/a> was successful with 15,427 votes, while his opponent Muhammad Afzal Shahid trailed with 9,832 votes, Form-27 results issued by the Election Commission showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PPP won the LA-2 (Mirpur-II) seat, with its candidate Qasim Majeed securing 13,378 votes, according to Form-27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The PPP and PML-N had a close contest in LA-3 (Mirpur-III), with the former\u2019s Yasir Sultan emerging as the winner with 12,590 votes while his opponent grabbed 11,081 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In LA-4 (Mirpur-IV), PML-N\u2019s Chaudhry Rukhsar Ahmed won with 22,376 votes, while PPP\u2019s Sohaib Arshad was the runner-up with 15,851 votes, Form-27 showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Barnala\u2019s LA-5 (Bhimber-I) seat also saw a close contest between PML-N\u2019s Waqar Ahmed Noor and PPP\u2019s Chaudhry Parvaiz Ashraf. Noor won with 30,259 ballots cast in his favour, and Ashraf trailed with 29,574 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PML-N\u2019s Chaudhry Razzaq won in Samahni\u2019s LA-6, unofficial results said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In LA-7 (Bhimber-III), PML-N\u2019s Tariq Farooq won with a comfortable margin, securing 37,613 votes, while former AJK PM Chaudhry Anwarul Haq was the runner-up with 25,534 votes, Form-26 showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PPP\u2019s Zafar Iqbal was the winner in LA-8 (Kotli-I) with 19,535 votes, while the party\u2019s AJK chapter president Chaudhry Yasin won the LA-10 (Kotli-III) seat with 12,358 ballots in his favour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the other hand, PML-N\u2019s Umair Naeem secured Nakyal\u2019s LA-9 (Kotli-II) constituency, where the polling process had turned violent on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Naeem had a close contest with PPP\u2019s Javed Budhanvi, with the PML-N leader winning over 30,000 votes and Budhanvi grabbing 28,309 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PML-N\u2019s Raja Asif grabbed the LA-11 (Kotli-IV) seat in Sehnsa, and its leader Raja Riasat Khan won LA-12 (Kotli-V), based on unofficial results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PML-N candidate Raja Ayyaz Ahmad secured victory in LA-13 (Kotli-VI), having secured 12,008 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The second and third phases of the elections are scheduled<\/a> for August 2 and August 10 in nine constituencies of Muzaffarabad division and all 12 refugee constituencies, and 11 constituencies of Poonch division, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his remarks on Monday night, the chief election commissioner termed these polls \u201cthe most difficult\u201d in the history of AJK, for reasons that \u201ceveryone is aware of\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While one or two isolated incidents do occur during elections, political parties often misrepresent them by blowing those occurrences out of proportion, without investigating them, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The PML-N grabbed nine out of the 13 constituencies of Azad Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s (AJK) Mirpur division in yesterday\u2019s elections, preliminary results issued by the..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5-1.png",700,708,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5-1-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5-1-297x300.png",297,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5-1.png",700,708,false],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5-1.png",700,708,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5-1.png",700,708,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5-1.png",700,708,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Pakistan<\/a>","tag_info":"Pakistan","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8030,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028\/revisions\/8030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Results breakdown<\/h2>\n\n\n\n