Election campaign to end at midnight tonight

The election campaign by political parties and independents concludes across the country at midnight tonight for the general elections to be held on Thursday.

Political leaders and contesting candidates are making last ditch efforts through public gatherings, corner meetings and door to door campaigns to garner maximum public support.

Election Commission has also completed arrangements for the polling. Ninety thousand six hundred and seventy five polling stations have been established in all four provinces.

The elections will be held on two hundred and sixty six general seats of National Assembly and five hundred and ninety three general seats of four provincial assemblies.

A total of 5121 candidates are in the race for the National Assembly seats. These include 4807 male, 312 female and two transgender.

For the four provincial assemblies, 12695 candidates are in the field including 12123 male, 570 women and two transgender.

There are a total of 128,585,760 registered voters in the country.

Punjab has
the most number of 73, 207,896 registered voters followed by Sindh with 26,994,769, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with 21,928,119, Balochistan with 5,371,947 and Federal Capital Islamabad 1,083,029.

Source: Radio Pakistan

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