Peshawar: The merged districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa lost 6 seats in the National Assembly in the new constituencies by the Election Commission.
Ahead of the 2024 elections, the Election Commission of Pakistan deprived the merged districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of 6 seats in the National Assembly in the ongoing constituencies based on population. The National Assembly seats of the merged districts reduced from 10 to 4.
The Election Commission of Pakistan has released the list of new constituencies, according to the current list, 6 National Assembly constituencies have been reduced from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, these constituencies have been reduced from the integrated tribal district.
According to the list of constituencies, there were two constituencies from Bajaur NA 40 and NA 41, now the new constituency will be NA 8. There were NA 43 and 44 constituencies from Khyber district, which has now been reduced by one constituency to NA 27.
One constituency has also been reduced from Karam, after NA 45 and 46, the new constituency of Karam will be NA 27, and Karzai’s constituency NA 47 has been abolished, Karam district has been merged with Hangu’s constituency NA 36. Is.
Similarly, a constituency of South Waziristan has also been made, after NA 49 and NA 50, now NA 42 will be the new constituency of South Waziristan.
After the 2018 elections, the NA-51 Constituency was included in the Frontier Region, the Frontier Region areas lost their separate constituency as they were included in the respective districts unlike in 2018 and now they will be part of the election as a part of the respective districts.
After the new constituencies, the order of the old constituencies of the National Assembly has also changed, NA 8 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which used to be the Malakand constituency, now NA 8 consists of Bajaur, Malakand has been added to NA 9.
Similarly, Nowshera constituency has changed from NA 26 and 27 to NA 33 and 34, Kohat NA 32 to NA 35, Hangu NA 33 to NA 36, Karam NA 46 and NA 45 to NA. A37, Kirk has changed from NA34 to NA38.
Similarly Bannu NA 35 to 39, Lucky Marwat NA 36 to 41, Tank NA 37 NA 43, Mohmand NA 42 to NA 26, NA 38 DI Khan NA 44, NA 39 DI Khan 45, NA 41 has changed from Bajaur 41, Khyber NA 43 and NA 44 to 24.
115 seats have been retained in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, but one seat has been reduced from Peshawar, bringing the number to 13. Hangu has also been deprived of one seat.
In the 2018 elections, one seat of Chitral was reduced, but now one seat of Chitral has been increased, similarly, one seat of Shangla has also been increased to 3 seats.
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