NA-1 (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-32 (Tribal Areas IV) from 1977 to 2002. In 2002, it was changed to NA-32 (Chitral). The delimitation in 2018 saw the constituency name be changed to NA-1 (Chitral).

NA-1 (Chitral)
Constituency
for the National Assembly of Pakistan
DistrictChitral District
ProvinceKhyber Pakhtunkhwa
Electorate269,579[1]
Current constituency
Member(s)Abdul Akbar Chitrali
Created fromNA-32 (Chitral)

Members of Parliament

1977–2002: NA-32 (Tribal Areas VI)
ElectionMemberParty
1977Abdul Subhan Khan Independent
1985
1988Bismillah Khan Independent
1990Haji Lal Karim Independent
1993Bismillah Khan Independent
1997Haji Lal Karim Independent

2002–2018: NA-32 (Chitral)
ElectionMemberParty
2002Abdul Akbar Chitrali MMA
2008Shahzada Mohiuddin PML (Q)
2013Shahzada Iftikhar Uddin APML

Since 2018: NA-1 (Chitral)
ElectionMemberParty
2018Abdul Akbar Chitrali MMA

Election 2002

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

General Election 2002: NA-32 (Chitral) [2]
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) [3]
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) [4]
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.[5][6] 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)[7]
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

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See also

References
  1. Shah, Waseem Ahmad (3 July 2018). "KP gets 3.05 million new voters". dawn.com. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  2. "Constituency-Wise Detailed Results" (PDF).
  3. "Election Commission of Pakistan: List of Elections with their Bye-Elections".
  4. "Election Commission of Pakistan: List of Elections with their Bye Elections".
  5. "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.
  6. "Pervez Musharraf resigns as APML chairman – The Express Tribune". tribune.com.pk. 22 June 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  7. "ECP – Election Commission of Pakistan". www.ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
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