Elections 2018: ECP issues notification of public holiday on July 25

ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued a notification announcing a public holiday on July 25 – the polling day.

The official notification of ECP stipulated that a public holiday will be observed countrywide on July 25. The decision of declaring public holiday on polling day was taken to facilitate voters on the given date.

The notification was issued in accordance with Article 218 of constitution and section 4 and 8-C of Election Act 2017.

According to the ECP, a total of 105.96 million voters out of total population of about 200 million people are included in the electoral roll to cast vote in elections on July 25, 2018. They include: 59.22million male and 46.73million females, with the gender gap between male and female rising to around 12.5m. This shows that 55.9 per cent of the registered voters in Pakistan are males while only 44.1pc are females.

A total number of 11,855 candidates will running for the 849 general seats of National Assembly and four provincial assemblies.

This includes a total of 3,459 candidates — 1,623 from Punjab, 824 from Sindh, 725 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 287 from Balochistan. They will contest for the 272 general seats of the National Assembly. The National Assembly – the lower house of the parliament in the Pakistan’s democratic system consists of 342 members, of which 272 are directly elected, 60 seats are reserved for women and 10 are open to religious minorities. A political party needs at least 172 seats of simple majority to form a government the national level and has the right to select a prime minister.

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