In all, 522 candidates are contenting for 15 National Assembly and 26 Provincial Assembly constituencies. According to the ECP, 201 candidates are contesting for 15 National assembly seats, where 321 candidates are contesting for 26 Provincial Assemblies in all four provinces across Pakistan
Around 180 candidates are contesting for 15 seats of Punjab province, 82 candidates for four Sindh province constituencies, 27 candidates for four seats of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and 32 candidates are contesting for four Balochistan province districts.
Most of the seats had been vacated by the winners of more than one seat, while others had fallen vacant because of disqualification of candidates by superior courts.
The has set up 7,606 polling stations across the country and there are around 8.5 million registered voters in these constituencies
In most of the constituencies, a neck and neck contest in expected between the ruling PML-N and cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Tehreek-i-Insaaf.
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