{"id":23183,"date":"2026-08-03T12:49:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T07:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23183"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:49:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T07:49:58","slug":"ajk-elections-pml-n-wins-14-seats-ppp-secures-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23183","title":{"rendered":"AJK Elections: PML-N Wins 14 Seats, PPP Secures 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>According to unofficial and provisional results from the second phase of elections for the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has won 14 seats, while the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has secured five.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Polling took place in eight constituencies of the Muzaffarabad division and 12 seats reserved for refugees. Voting in constituency LA-27 was postponed after severe weather conditions and landslides prevented election staff and materials from reaching polling stations.<\/p>\n<p>The results indicate that the PML-N performed strongly in constituencies across Neelum Valley, Muzaffarabad, Jammu and Kashmir Valley seats, while the PPP also managed to secure several important victories.<\/p>\n<p>PPP candidate Sardar Mukhtar Khan won in LA-29, while PML-N candidates emerged victorious in LA-30, LA-31 and LA-32.<\/p>\n<p>In Neelum Valley, Shah Ghulam Qadir of the PML-N won LA-25, whereas PPP candidate Mian Abdul Waheed secured victory in LA-26.<\/p>\n<p>The PML-N also maintained a strong position in refugee constituencies, winning the majority of seats allocated to migrants from Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>Election officials said that a new polling date for constituency LA-27 would be announced later.<\/p>\n<p>The results have strengthened the PML-N&#8217;s position to form the next government, although the final political picture will become clear only after the official announcement of results.<\/p>\n<h4>Key results<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>LA-25: Shah Ghulam Qadir (PML-N)<\/li>\n<li>LA-26: Mian Abdul Waheed (PPP)<\/li>\n<li>LA-29: Sardar Mukhtar Khan (PPP)<\/li>\n<li>LA-30: Mustafa Bashir Abbasi (PML-N)<\/li>\n<li>LA-31: Saqib Majeed Raja (PML-N)<\/li>\n<li>LA-32: Raja Farooq Haider (PML-N)<\/li>\n<li>LA-33: Diwan Ali Khan Qamar Chughtai (PPP)<\/li>\n<li>LA-40: Aamir Abdul Ghaffar (PPP)<\/li>\n<li>LA-45: Abdul Majid Khan (PPP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to unofficial and provisional results from the second phase of elections for the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has won 14 seats, while the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has secured five. Polling took place in eight constituencies of the Muzaffarabad division and 12 seats reserved for refugees. Voting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[974,509,13240,62,4831,82,13271,13272],"class_list":["post-23183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-azad-kashmir","tag-elections","tag-muzaffarabad","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-peoples-party","tag-pml-n","tag-raja-farooq-haider","tag-shah-ghulam-qadir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23183","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=23183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23184,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23183\/revisions\/23184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}