NA-35 Kohat

NA-35 Kohat
NA-35 Kohat
Constituency; for the National Assembly of Pakistan
Region	Kohat District
Electorate	666,237
Current constituency
Party	Sunni Ittehad Council
Member(s)	Shehryar Afridi
Created from	NA-32 Kohat

NA-35 Kohat (این اے-35، کوہاٹ) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. It covers tho whole of district Kohat. The constituency was formerly known as NA-14 Kohat from 1977 to 2018. The name changed to NA-32 Kohat after the delimitation in 2018 and to NA-35 Kohat after the delimitation in 2022.^[2]

Members of Parliament

1988–2002: NA-9 Kohat

	Member	Party
1988	Moulvi Naimatullah	IJI
1990	Syed Iftikhar Hussain Gillani	PDA
1993	Syed Iftikhar Hussain Gillani	PML-N
1997	Haji Javed Ibrahim Piracha	PML-N

2002–2018: NA-14 Kohat

	Member	Party
2002	Mufti Ibrar Sultan	MMA
2008	Dilawar Shah	ANP
2013	Shehryar Afridi	PTI

2018–2023: NA-32 Kohat

Election		Member	Party
	2018	Shehryar Afridi	PTI

2023–present: NA-35 Kohat

Election		Member	Party
	2024	Shehryar Afridi	SIC

Elections since 2002

2002 general election

2002 General Election: NA-14 Kohat ^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	MMA	Mufti Ibrar Sultan	46,130	48.14
	PML-Q	Syed Iftikhar Hussain Gillani	14,277	14.90
	Independent	Shehryar Khan Afridi	12,083	12.61
	ANP	Fazal Rahim Khattak	11,299	11.79
	PPPP	Saifullah Khan Khattak Advocate	7,205	7.52
	PML-N	Javed Ibrahim Paracha	3,712	2.83
	National Alliance	Shah Baz Gul Shinwari	1,520	1.59
	Pak Watan Party	Syed Mazher Ali Shah	599	0.62
Majority			31,853	33.24
Turnout			95,825	31.40
	MMA gain from PML-N

A total of 3,748 votes were rejected.

2008 general election

2008 General Election: NA-14 Kohat ^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	ANP	Dilawar Shah	30,681	31.11	+19.32
	Independent	Malak Mohammad Asad Khan	23,030	23.35
	Independent	Syed Iftikhar Hussain Gillani	17,466	17.71
	MMA	Molana Abdul Hai	10,573	10.72	−37.42
	PPPP	Abdul Rauf Advocate	8,421	8.54	+1.02
	Independent	Qari Ubaidullah Haidri	6,774	6.87
	PML-N	Javaid Ibrahim Paracha	1,292	1.31	−1.52
	Independent	Pir Hafiz Khurshid Ali Khan	215	0.22
	MQM	Shahid Khan Advocate	166	0.17
Majority			7,651	7.76
Turnout			98,618	28.41	−2.99
	ANP gain from MMA

A total of 3,029 votes were rejected.

2013 general election

2013 General Election: NA-14 Kohat ^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PTI	Shehryar Afridi	68,129	40.04
	JUI-F	Gohar Mohammad Khan Bangesh	32,041	18.83
	Independent	Shammim Afridi	19,135	11.25
	PML-N	Malik Muhammad Asad Khan	13,789	8.10	+6.79
	PPPP	Dilawar Shah	10,041	5.90	−2.64
	MDM	Ubaid Ullah	9,209	5.41
	ANP	Kursheed Begum Saeed	7,211	4.24	−26.87
	Independent	Badshah Gul	4,814	2.83
	JI	Syed Mohammed Faheem	3,558	2.09
	TTP	Asif Iqbal	498	0.29
	Independent	Mohammad Ihsanullah	471	0.28
	QWP (S)	Najeebullah Durrani	414	0.24
	PkMAP	Mohammad Nawaz Khan	312	0.18
	Independent	Nazia Zulfiqar	254	0.15
	Independent	Sher Rehman	159	0.09
	MQM	Abdul Qadeer Khan	130	0.08	−0.09
Majority			36,088	21.21
Turnout			170,165	42.68	+14.27
	PTI gain from ANP

A total of 5,600 votes were rejected.

2018 general election

General elections were held on 25 July 2018.

General election 2018: NA-32 (Kohat)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PTI	Shehryar Afridi	82,248	43.14
	MMA	Gohar Muhammad Khan Bangash	47,412	24.87
	PML(N)	Abbas Khan Afridi	44,154	23.16
	Others	Others (seven candidates)	16,844	8.83
Turnout			197,343	38.95
Total valid votes			190,658	96.61
Rejected ballots			6,685	3.39
Majority			34,836	18.27
Registered electors			506,699
	PTI hold		Swing	N/A

2024 general election

General elections were held on 8 February 2024.^[7] Shehryar Afridi won the election with 128,594 votes.

General election 2024: NA-35 Kohat
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Shehryar Afridi^[a]	128,594	52.68	9.54
	PML(N)	Abbas Khan Afridi	59,034	24.18	1.02
	JUI (F)	Gohar Muhammad Khan Bangash	44,380	18.18	N/A
	Others	Others (fifteen candidates)	12,111	4.96
Turnout			249,848	37.50	1.45
Total valid votes			244,119	97.71
Rejected ballots			5,729	2.29
Majority			69,560	28.49	10.22
Registered electors			666,239

Notes

^ Filed nomination papers as PTI candidate but ECP allowed him to run as an Independent

References

^ "Election Commission of Pakistan". ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
^ "ECP - Election Commission of Pakistan". www.ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ [1]^{[dead link‍]}
^ http://test1947.ecp.gov.pk/ConstResult.aspx?Const_Id=NA-14&type=NA ^{[dead link‍]}
^ "ECP – Election Commission of Pakistan". www.ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
^ "Election Commission of Pakistan". ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 12 April 2024.

External links

Election result's official website

[Candidate_status-8] Filed nomination papers as PTI candidate but ECP allowed him to run as an Independent

[1] "Election Commission of Pakistan". ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 6 January 2024.

[2] "ECP - Election Commission of Pakistan". www.ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 25 December 2022.

[3] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[4] [1]^{[dead link‍]}

[5] ttp://test1947.ecp.gov.pk/ConstResult.aspx?Const_Id=NA-14&type=NA ^{[dead link‍]}

[6] "ECP – Election Commission of Pakistan". www.ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 20 August 2018.

[7] "Election Commission of Pakistan". ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 12 April 2024.

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