{"id":23074,"date":"2026-07-28T13:09:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23074"},"modified":"2026-07-28T13:09:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:09:27","slug":"ajk-elections-pml-n-wins-8-of-12-declared-seats-in-first-phase-ppp-secures-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23074","title":{"rendered":"AJK Elections: PML-N Wins 8 of 12 Declared Seats in First Phase, PPP Secures 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unofficial and provisional results from the first phase of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly elections show the Pakistan Muslim League (N) leading with eight seats, while the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has won four of the 12 constituencies declared so far.<\/p>\n<p>Polling was held across 13 constituencies in the Mirpur Division, covering Mirpur, Kotli and Bhimber. Vote counting began after polling concluded, with an additional hour allowed for voters already present at polling stations.<\/p>\n<p>According to the unofficial results, the PML-N has won LA-1 Mirpur 1, LA-4 Mirpur 4, LA-5 Bhimber 1, LA-7 Bhimber 3, LA-9 Kotli 2, LA-11 Kotli 4, LA-12 Kotli 5 and LA-13 Kotli 6.<\/p>\n<p>The PPP secured victories in LA-2 Mirpur 2, LA-3 Mirpur 3, LA-8 Kotli 1 and LA-10 Kotli 3.<\/p>\n<p>The declared winners include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Azhar Sadiq (PML-N) \u2013 LA-1<\/li>\n<li>Qasim Majeed (PPP) \u2013 LA-2<\/li>\n<li>Chaudhry Yasar Sultan (PPP) \u2013 LA-3<\/li>\n<li>Chaudhry Rukhsar Ahmed (PML-N) \u2013 LA-4<\/li>\n<li>Waqar Ahmed Noor (PML-N) \u2013 LA-5<\/li>\n<li>Chaudhry Tariq Farooq (PML-N) \u2013 LA-7<\/li>\n<li>Zafar Iqbal Malik (PPP) \u2013 LA-8<\/li>\n<li>Umair Naeem (PML-N) \u2013 LA-9<\/li>\n<li>Chaudhry Muhammad Yasin (PPP) \u2013 LA-10<\/li>\n<li>Muhammad Asif (PML-N) \u2013 LA-11<\/li>\n<li>Muhammad Riyasat Khan (PML-N) \u2013 LA-12<\/li>\n<li>Raja Ayaz Ahmed Khan (PML-N) \u2013 LA-13<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile, counting is still underway in LA-6 Bhimber 2, where unofficial results show PML-N candidate Chaudhry Muhammad Razaq holding the lead over Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party candidate Ali Shan Chaudhry.<\/p>\n<p>These results remain unofficial and provisional. The Election Commission of Azad Jammu and Kashmir will announce the official final results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unofficial and provisional results from the first phase of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly elections show the Pakistan Muslim League (N) leading with eight seats, while the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has won four of the 12 constituencies declared so far. Polling was held across 13 constituencies in the Mirpur Division, covering Mirpur, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[974,13216,509,13215,13214,82,828,421],"class_list":["post-23074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-azad-kashmir","tag-bhimber","tag-elections","tag-kotli","tag-mirpur","tag-pml-n","tag-politics","tag-ppp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23076,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23074\/revisions\/23076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}