The first Form-47 — the consolidated return of a constituency's provisional results — has been uploaded to the Election Commission of Pakistan's drive.

It states that the total voter turnout in the NA-53 Islamabad-II constituency was a mere 28 per cent. A total of 87,903 votes were cast, of which 783 (0.9pc) were rejected.

Ali Nawaz Aiwan of the PTI won from this constituency with 50,943 votes, followed by PML-N's Waqar Ahmad with 32,313 votes.

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