PESHAWAR: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has released details of candidates for the second phase of local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) 17 districts.
According to the Election Commission, a total of 29,338 candidates will contest the election. The ECP said that 651 candidates will contest for the posts of Tehsil Mayor and Chairman while 13,331 for the general seats in Village and Neighborhood Council. The ECP added that there will be tough contest between 3,201 candidates for women’s seats, 6,602 for labour and peasant seats, 5,446 for youth seats and 107 for minority positions.
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The Election Commission of Pakistan has earlier informed that no minority candidate has submitted nomination papers for reserve seats for the upcoming second phase of the Local Government polls in six districts.
The ECP further said that a total of 120 candidates are vying for the reserved religious minorities’ seats, but in six districts – Torghar, Upper Kohistan, Lower Kohistan Lower, Kolai Palas, Dir Upper and Chitral Upper – no minority candidate showed interest in filling papers election. The Local Government elections in KP’s 65 tehsils are scheduled on 31 March.
The highest number of minorities applications were received from Swat and Abbottabad with 21, 21 minority candidates each, followed by Lower Dir 16, Kurram 14, Lower Chitral 11, Mansehra 9, North Waziristan 7, Orakzai 4, Batgram and Shangla three each and two minority candidates have submitted papers for contest election in South Waziristan.