Pakistan Has Not Announced Vote Count Results 3 Days Since Election

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JAKARTA - The Pakistan Election Commission has yet to state the results of the vote count ahead of Sunday, February 11, because it is still gathering results from several constituents after three days of vote counting in Pakistan's important elections. Quoted from Anadolu, the commission announced that 258 of the 264 seats were directly won by the lower house, or the National Assembly. Meanwhile, elections in the two constituents will be held later because of the death of one of the candidates, and the incomplete voting. An independent candidate, largely supported by the Pakistan party Tereek-e-Insaf (PTI) leads ahead of two major parties &nash; the People's Party of Pakistan (PPP) led by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and the Pakistan-Nawaz Muslim League (PML-N) which were three times led by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, according to preliminary results. Independent candidates won 103 seats, followed by PML-N with 77 seats and PPP getting 54 seats. The Muttahida Quarmi (MQM) movement, a regional party based in the commercial centers of Karachi and Hyderabad, surprisingly won 17 seats in the National Assembly. More than 20 seats won by regional parties and religious politics. Geo News said 93 of 102 were independent from the PTI party. Four independent candidates on Saturday announced their joining to the PML-N party, increasing the party's strength by obtaining 77 seats in the lower house.

A party needs 169 seats in the National Assembly consisting of 336 people to form a government with a simple majority.