NA-8 (Malakand Protected Area)

NA-8 (Malakand Protected Area)
Constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan
Region	Malakand District
Electorate	386,449
Current constituency
Member(s)	Junaid Akbar
Created from	NA-35 (Malakand Protected Area)

NA-8 (Malakand Protected Area) (Urdu: این اے-۳۵، مالاکنڈ) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. It covers tho whole of district Malakand. The constituency was formerly known as NA-35 (Malakand) from 1977 to 2018. The name changed to NA-8 (Malakand) after the delimitation in 2018.

Members of Parliament[]

1977–2002: NA-35 (Malakand Protected Area)[]

Election		Member	Party
	1977	Zahoor Ahmed	PPP
	1985	M. Nawaz Khokhar	Independent
	1988	Raja Pervez Khan	PPP
	1990	M. Nawaz Khokhar	IJI
	1993	M. Nawaz Khokhar	PML (N)
	1997	Syed Zafar Ali Shah	PML (N)

2002–2018: NA-35 (Malakand Protected Area)[]

Election		Member	Party
	2002	Maulana Muhammad Inayat-ur-Rehman	MMA
	2008	Lal Muhammad Khan	PPPP
	2013	Junaid Akbar	PTI

Since 2018: NA-8 (Malakand Protected Area)[]

Election		Member	Party
	2018	Junaid Akbar	PTI

Elections since 2002[]

2002 general election[]

2002 General Election: NA-35 (Malakand Protected Area) ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	MMA	Maulana Muhammad Inayat-ur-Rehman	37,663	54.13
	PPPP	Lal Muhammad Khan	17,538	25.21
	ANP	Bahr-e-Karam	5,167	7.43
	PML-Q	Muhammad Riaz Khan	5,161	7.42
	PTI	Nowsherwan Qasir	2,117	3.04
	PML-N	Ziaullah	1,930	2.77
Majority			20,125	28.92
Turnout			69,576	34.62
	MMA gain from PML-N

A total of 1,915 votes were rejected.

2008 general election[]

2008 General Election: NA-35 (Malakand Protected Area) ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PPPP	Lal Muhammad Khan	34,472	61.87	+36.66
	MMA	Sahibzada Khalid Jan	5,555	9.97	-44.16
	PML	Muhammad Riaz	5,462	9.80
	ANP	Ahmadullah	5,427	9.74	+2.31
	PML-N	Sajjad Ahmad	4,800	8.62	+5.85
Majority			28,917	51.90
Turnout			55,716	31.29	-3.33
	PPPP gain from MMA

A total of 2,380 votes were rejected.

2013 general election[]

2013 General Election: NA-35 (Malakand Protected Area) ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PTI	Janaid Akbar	51,312	36.92
	JUI-F	Hafiz Muhammad Saeed	22,329	16.07
	PPPP	Lal Muhammad Khan	19,081	13.73	-48.14
	PML-N	Fida Muhammad	18,207	13.10	+4.48
	JI	Bakhtiar Maani	16,397	11.80
	ANP	Rahmat Shah Sael	8,709	6.26	-3.48
	Tehreek-e-Pasmanada Awam Pakistan	Muhammad Ibrar	1,146	0.82
	Independent	Bacha Hussain	972	0.70
	Independent	Alamgir	411	0.30
	Independent	Ijazur Rahman	227	0.16
	Independent	Alhaj Muhammad Khan	193	0.14
Majority			28,983	20.85
Turnout			138,984	45.95	+14.66
	PTI gain from PPPP

A total of 4,362 votes were rejected.

2018 general election[]

General elections were held on 25 July 2018.

Contest overview

Chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari contested from this constituency and lost the election. Junaid Akbar of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf was elected from this constituency in 2013 and retained the seat.

Results

General election 2018: NA-8 (Malakand Protected Area)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PTI	Junaid Akbar	81,310	43.61	6.69
	PPP	Bilawal Bhutto Zardari	43,724	23.45	9.72
	MMA	Gul Naseeb Khan	31,379	16.83	11.04†
	Others	Others (ten candidates)	24,065	12.91
Turnout			186,429	48.24	2.29
Rejected ballots			5,591	3.00
Majority			37,586	20.16
Registered electors			386,449
	PTI hold		Swing	N/A

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

See also[]

• NA-7 (Lower Dir-II)
• NA-9 (Buner)

References[]

External links[]

• Election result's official website