During the General Elections 2024, the Member of the National Assembly (MNA) from NA-14 Mansehra was elected with 115,642 votes, which made up 44 percent of the 260,955 ballots cast, and only 20 percent of the 582,844 registered voters in the constituency.
According to the Final Consolidated Result (Form-49) of the constituency, the voter turnout stood at 45 percent. The runner-up candidate secured 40 percent of the ballots cast, the third-placed candidate received five percent, while the remaining five candidates collectively secured eight percent votes.
Despite the victory, the winner did not have the support of the majority of voters who exercised their right to vote on February 8, 2024, as 138,469 or 53 percent of them, voted for other candidates, indicating they did not want the winner to represent them. As many as 6,844 ballots (three percent) were declared invalid, meaning they were discarded and did not go to any candidate.
This story is part of FAFEN’s constituency-wise analysis on the unrepresentativeness of Pakistan’s electoral outcomes. The series highlights how the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) system can skew representation in multi-candidate electoral contests of Pakistan, where three or more contenders are common. In such contests, a majority of voters may feel unrepresented and raise questions about the legitimacy, which may potentially contribute to political instability.
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