Polling Time Ends For Senate By-poll

Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published November 15, 2018 | 08:12 PM

The polling time for Senate by-election on two seats from Punjab ended at 4pm, here on Thursday.

LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 15th Nov, 2018 ) :The polling time for Senate by-election on two seats from Punjab ended at 4pm, here on Thursday.

The polling continued smoothly until 4pm without any break.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's Waleed Iqbal and PML-N's Saud Majeed were in the run for the general Senate seat while PTI's Seemi Ezdi and PML-N's Saira Afzal Tarar were contesting for a reserved seat for women.

These two Senate seats from Punjab had fallen vacant after Sadia Abbasi and Haroon Akhter Khan of the Pakistan Muslim League-N were denotified for holding dual-nationality.

Provincial Election Commissioner Iqbal Hussain performed as the Returning Officer. The main hall of the Punjab Assembly building had already been declared the polling station.

Meanwhile, counting of votes for election results had started till filing of the report.