Trends - By polls 2018

ECP sets up control room to assist overseas voters with passcodes

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has set up a control room to facilitate the overseas voters who have been...

Published 13 Oct, 2018 06:49pm

ECP issues list of instructions for voters participating in Oct 14 by-polls

Bags, phones and cameras will not be allowed inside polling stations.

Updated 13 Oct, 2018 04:06pm

Presiding officers to receive ballot papers, election stationery for by-polls today

Data of presiding officers who aren't registered on the RTS system yet will be fed in the software today.

Published 13 Oct, 2018 12:08pm

Tribunal suspends disqualification of PTI MPA in Multan

By-elections for the PP-217 constituency are to be held on Nov 28.

Updated 13 Oct, 2018 09:50am

PML-N workers protest fellows’ arrest

Protesters shout slogans against the government for allegedly arresting and harassing PML-N workers ahead of the polls.

Updated 13 Oct, 2018 10:02am

Lofty promises mark culmination of canvassing for Sunday’s by-polls

The candidates for by-polls in Punjab spent a hectic day to woo voters before the campaign concluded on Friday midnight.

Updated 13 Oct, 2018 09:42am

BNP-M to keep working for people’s rights, says Mengal

Talked about pain of the families of missing persons in National Assembly, says Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal.

Updated 13 Oct, 2018 09:07am

1,700 polling stations categorised as ‘highly sensitive’ for Oct 14 by-polls

Security cameras have been installed at all sensitive polling stations which would be guarded by army troops, says ECP.

Updated 13 Oct, 2018 07:20am

Battlefield Lahore: NA-124

Dawn’s resident editor in Lahore writes about "the unusual" in the run-up to the Oct 14 polls.

Published 13 Oct, 2018 12:20am

Election campaigns to end at midnight, ECP gears up for Oct 14 by-polls

By-election will be held in 35 constituencies — 11 of National Assembly and 24 of provincial assemblies.

Published 12 Oct, 2018 08:36pm

Security arrangements made for Oct 14 by-elections

4,000 police to be deployed during polls, 21 army companies, seven of Rangers requested

Published 12 Oct, 2018 07:17am

ECP starts sending passcodes to overseas voters for by-polls

7,364 registered overseas voters will be able to cast their votes in the by-polls on Sunday.

Updated 11 Oct, 2018 03:20pm

Security plan chalked out for PK-78 by-poll

About 2,000 cops would be deployed to ensure security in the constituency.

Updated 11 Oct, 2018 01:12pm

Unusual election

The PTI is as yet not quite the party likely to upstage Hamza’s nominee in NA-124.

Updated 11 Oct, 2018 01:30pm

PPP, PML-N agree to field joint candidates for Oct 14 by-elections

"PML-N has agreed to support the PPP candidates contesting from Karachi," says PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira.

Updated 11 Oct, 2018 01:13pm

Sattar says PTI offered him to contest NA-247 by-poll

The PTI dubs Dr Sattar’s claim as his “wish” and not reality.

Updated 11 Oct, 2018 05:12pm

PML-N and PTI leaders file papers for by-election

PTI’s Ghulam Mohiuddin Dewan and Muhammad Madni filed papers for NA-124.

Updated 11 Oct, 2018 01:28pm

Undeterred by defeat, PPP invites applications for by-polls

ECP to accept nominations for 11 NA, 26 PA seats from Aug 28.

Updated 11 Oct, 2018 01:12pm

In a first, SC allows overseas Pakistanis to vote in upcoming by-polls

By-polls to fill seats left vacant by lawmakers who contested and won more than one seat in the July 25 elections.

Updated 11 Oct, 2018 01:11pm