NA-1 (Chitral)

NA-1 (Chitral)
NA-1 (Chitral)
Constituency; for the National Assembly of Pakistan
District	Chitral District
Province	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Electorate	269,579
Current constituency
Member(s)	Abdul Akbar Chitrali
Created from	NA-32 (Chitral)

NA-1 (Chitral) (Urdu: این اے-۳۲، چترال) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. It comprises the whole district of Chitral. It was formerly known as NA-24 Chitral from 1988 to 1997. In 2002, it was changed to NA-32 (Chitral). The delimitation in 2018 saw the constituency name be changed to NA-1 (Chitral).

Members of Parliament[]

1977–2002: NA-32 (Chitral)[]

	Member	Party
1977	Abdul Subhan Khan	Independent
1985	Abdul Subhan Khan	Independent
1988	Bismillah Khan	Independent
1990	Haji Lal Karim	Independent
1993	Bismillah Khan	Independent
1997	Haji Lal Karim	Independent

2002–2018: NA-32 (Chitral)[]

	Member	Party
2002	Abdul Akbar Chitrali	MMA
2008	Shahzada Mohiuddin	PML (Q)
2013	Shahzada Iftikhar Uddin	APML

Since 2018: NA-1 (Chitral)[]

Election		Member	Party
	2018	Abdul Akbar Chitrali	MMA

Election 2002[]

General Elections were held on 10 October 2002. Abdul Akbar Khan won this seat with 36,130 votes.^[2]

General Election 2002: NA-32 (Chitral) ^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	MMA	Abdul Akbar Khan	36,130	44.38
	PML(Q)	Shahzada Iftikhar Uddin	23,907	29.37
	PPP	Sardar Ali S. Aman	20,862	25.62
	PTI	Abdul Latif	516	0.63
Valid ballots			81,415	96.94
Rejected ballots			2,572	3.06
Turnout			83,987	49.13
Majority			12,223	15.01
	MMA gain from Independent

Election 2008[]

General Elections were held on 18 February 2008. Shahzada Mohiuddin won this seat with 33,278 votes.

General Election 2008: NA-32 (Chitral) ^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PML(Q)	Shahzada Mohiuddin	33,278	38.53
	Independent	Sardar Muhammad Khan	31,120	36.03
	PPP	Ghulam Muhyuddin	18,516	21.44
	MMA	Molvi Muhammad Jehangir Khan	2,759	3.19
	Independent	Nadir Khawaja	695	0.80
Valid ballots			86,368	96.42
Rejected ballots			3,208	3.58
Turnout			89,576	45.46
Majority			2,158	2.50
	PML(Q) gain from MMA

Election 2013[]

General Elections were held on 11 May 2013. Shahzada Iftikhar Uddin won this seat with 29,772 votes.

General Election 2013: NA-32 (Chitral) ^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	APML	Shahzada Iftikhar Uddin	29,772	23.83
	PTI	Abdul Latif	24,182	19.35
	JI	Abdul Akbar Chitrali	20,520	16.42
	PPP	Muhammad Hakeem Khan	19,877	15.91
	JUI (F)	Hidayat-ur-Rehman	15,928	12.75
	ANP	Syed Muzafar Ali Shah Jahan	6,728	5.38
	TPAP	Irshad Alam Khan	3,948	3.16
	PML(N)	Muhammad Younas	2,463	1.97
	Independent	Muhammad Yahya	941	0.75
	Independent	Asma Mehmood	587	0.47
	Independent	Kamal Abdul Jamil	0	0.00
Valid ballots			124,946	95.00
Rejected ballots			6,574	5.00
Turnout			131,520	63.66
Majority			5,590	4.48
	APML gain from PML(Q)

Election 2018[]

General elections were held on 25 July 2018.

Contest overview

Shahzada Iftikhar Uddin previously ran twice from this constituency, first in 2002 on Pakistan Muslim League (Q) ticket and then in 2013 on All Pakistan Muslim League ticket. He was runner up in 2002 and winner in 2013. He ran on Pakistan Muslim League (N) ticket in 2018 and lost. Former dictator and president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf initially expressed intention to run from this constituency being head of All Pakistan Muslim League but he resigned as APML head thus Mohammad Amjad, his replacement ran from this constituency from APML.^[6]^[7] Saleem Khan of Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians had been a member of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly from 2008 to 2018 but he ran for National Assembly from this constituency in 2018.

Results

General election 2018: NA-1 (Chitral)^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	MMA	Abdul Akbar Chitrali	48,616	29.58	0.41^†
	PTI	Abdul Latif	38,481	23.41	4.06
	PPP	Saleem Khan	32,635	19.86	3.95
	PML(N)	Shahzada Iftikhar Uddin	21,016	12.79	10.82
	Others	Others (seven candidates)	18,177	11.06
Turnout			164,355	60.97	2.69
Rejected ballots			5,430	3.30
Majority			10,135	6.17
Registered electors			269,579
	MMA gain from APML

^†JI and JUI-F contested as part of MMA

References[]

^ Shah, Waseem Ahmad (3 July 2018). "KP gets 3.05 million new voters". dawn.com. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
^ "NA-32 Chitral Detail Election Result 2002". Election Pakistani. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
^ "Constituency-Wise Detailed Results" (PDF).
^ "Election Commission of Pakistan: List of Elections with their Bye-Elections".
^ "Election Commission of Pakistan: List of Elections with their Bye Elections".
^ "Pervez Musharraf to contest elections from NA-1 Chitral – Daily Pakistan Observer -Daily Pakistan Observer –". pakobserver.net. Archived from the original on 5 July 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
^ "Pervez Musharraf resigns as APML chairman – The Express Tribune". tribune.com.pk. 22 June 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
^ "ECP – Election Commission of Pakistan". www.ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 8 August 2018.

External links[]

Election result's official website

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[1] Shah, Waseem Ahmad (3 July 2018). "KP gets 3.05 million new voters". dawn.com. Retrieved 3 July 2018.

[2] "NA-32 Chitral Detail Election Result 2002". Election Pakistani. Retrieved 30 June 2021.

[3] "Constituency-Wise Detailed Results" (PDF).

[4] "Election Commission of Pakistan: List of Elections with their Bye-Elections".

[5] "Election Commission of Pakistan: List of Elections with their Bye Elections".

[6] "Pervez Musharraf to contest elections from NA-1 Chitral – Daily Pakistan Observer -Daily Pakistan Observer –". pakobserver.net. Archived from the original on 5 July 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2018.

[7] "Pervez Musharraf resigns as APML chairman – The Express Tribune". tribune.com.pk. 22 June 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2018.

[8] "ECP – Election Commission of Pakistan". www.ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 8 August 2018.

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