Pakistani General Election 2008

[Harry Hayfield]

I have just spoken to the Pakistani High Commission in London and have been told that the election has polling between 10.00am and 5.00pm (local time) that equates to 5.00am to 12.00pm (GMT) and 12.00am to 7.00am (EST) on Monday February 18th 2008.

With regard to the actual results, I get the following Pakistani channels: Pakistani Television Prime, DM Digital (based in Manchester, England), Pakistani Television Global, GEO UK and GEO News so will hope that one or more of these will show the results live. I have already seen some party election broadcasts (which seem to be along the lines of views of modern Pakistan followed by party logo) and an advert by Pakistani Television asking young people to vote.

[Harry Hayfield]

The following channels will be holding Election programmes (all numbers relate to Sky Digital in the UK)

ARY Digital (791) from 11.00am GMT Monday until 8.00am GMT Tuesday
ARY The Musik (806) from 8.00am GMT Monday until 7.30pm GMT Monday, and again from 8.00am GMT Tuesday until 12.00am GMT Wednesday
GEO News (825) from 3.00am GMT Monday until 1.00pm GMT Tuesday

[phk]

Will results be posted here?

http://www.elections.com.pk/index.php

My family is voting PPP.

[Harry Hayfield]

I think it's very likely. I will say one thing interesting I like the poll on the front page.

Q. What do you think who will win the Elections 2008?
 
PML(Q)
PML(N)
PPP

The default answer is the PPP!

[Harry Hayfield]

News from ARY One World (simulcasting on ARY The Musik)

Cahuadhry Asif Ashiraf (PML(N) Candidate in Constituency 154) killed in gun attack
Polling has been postponed in Constituency 37 following a recommendation by the Electoral Commission
The President's spokesman has denied reports that the President is supporting the PML(Q) party

[The Hack Hater]

News from ARY One World (simulcasting on ARY The Musik)

Cahuadhry Asif Ashiraf (PML(N) Candidate in Constituency 154) killed in gun attack
Polling has been postponed in Constituency 37 following a recommendation by the Electoral Commission
The President's spokesman has denied reports that the President is supporting the PML(Q) party

Even though he does. I'd say PPP normally, but free and fair elections in Pakistan are real dicey.

[Harry Hayfield]

No exit polls to report (but it is being reported that an unknown person has disappeared with 200 ballot papers in one constituency).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

No exit polls to report (but it is being reported that an unknown person has disappeared with 200 ballot papers in one constituency).

Hey, if you're going to rig an election...

[Harry Hayfield]

First Results:
Constituency 38 (Lower Dir). Haji Munir (Ind) leading with 61 votes

It is also being that reported that in Constituency 119 (Lahore's 2nd), polling has been cancelled due to a candidate's death

[Harry Hayfield]

http://ecp.gov.pk/Election-Symbols.pdf

The list of party logos used in Pakistan elections

[Harry Hayfield]

Geo News is showing a tally of all the constituencies in numerical order with the names of the first two parties and the number of polls so far counted. The greatest number of polls counted so far is 4% (in constituency number 49) and so far the national tally is 1% counted. At this rate it will take 2½ days to to get a 100% poll count).

[Harry Hayfield]

We have had the following declarations(colours as used by GEO News)

Pakistani People's Parliamentary Party 1 seat (District 33)
Independent 1 seat (District 43)

Based on the % polls counted so far the next district to declare is likely to be District 123 (which has 53% of the polls counted so far) and is a PML (N) lead over an Independent.

[Harry Hayfield]

Counting has finished for the night and will restart at 3.00am GMT (10.00pm EST), the current state of the parties is:


Pakistan Muslim League (Q) 1 seat


Pakistan People's Party 9 seats

Pakistan Muslim League (N) 8 seats


Muttahida Qaumi Movement 1 seat


Awami National Party 3 seats

[Joe Republic]

What about the Giant Flags of Pakistan Party?  How are they doing?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Awami National Party 3 seats

Seriously?

[ag]

Rather different results here

http://www.dawn.com/events/election08/results/index.htm

and here

http://www.elections.com.pk/results_latest.php?assemblyId=1

Is it just the matter of the official/unofficial affiliation, different results reported, or is it more serious?

[minionofmidas]

Awami National Party 3 seats

Seriously?

That calls for a celebration!

[The Mikado]

What about the Giant Flags of Pakistan Party?  How are they doing?

That actually made me laugh out loud.

BTW, I looked up the Awami National Party and it looks pretty kickass.  What's the catch?

[ag]

According to the Dawn, PPP and PML(N) are far ahead of everyone else, w/ 16 seats each so far. PML(Q) has only 3, behind ANP w/ 4. MQM has 2, BNP - 1 and there are 6 Indys.

Looking district by district, both PPP and PML(N) have lots of pick-ups. PML(Q) leader lost his seat in Gujrat II.

[Verily]

What about the Giant Flags of Pakistan Party?  How are they doing?

That actually made me laugh out loud.

BTW, I looked up the Awami National Party and it looks pretty kickass.  What's the catch?

Pashtun nationalists, although overall not bad.

[ag]

So, again, according to the Dawn (I prefer independent media to the state commission    :

PML (N) 20
PPP 18
PML(Q) 7
ANP 5
MQM 2
BNP (A) 1
Others 7

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Awami National Party 3 seats

Seriously?

That calls for a celebration!

True

[Harry Hayfield]

Awami National Party 3 seats

Seriously?

According to Wikipedia yes

[ag]

A new batch of results from The Dawn (BTW, this is Pakistan's major English-language paper)  :

PML (N) 26
PPP 26
PML(Q) 10
ANP 6
MQM 5
BNP (A) 1
MMA 1
Others 9

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The apparent collapse of the MMA is very interesting.