ISLAMABAD : September 27 : The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued preliminary report on delimitation . The ECP said on Wednesday said in pursuance of Section 2’l of the Elections
Act,2OlT read with Rule 1i of the Election Rutes, 2017,the Election Commission of Pakistan hereby publishes, for information of general public, preliminary report and the list of constituencies in respect of National Assembly and the Provincial Assemblies of the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and lslamabad Federal Capital Territory.
The preliminary report and list of constituencies of the National Assembly and the provincial Assemblies of all the four provinces is being published to invite representationsand suggestions thereon. The ECP is under obligation and of firm belief to make the process accessible so that the political parties and general public be given fair chance to participate in the electoral process’
The pakistan Bureau of Statistics officially published the final results of the 07th Digital population and Housing Census-2023 on 07th August, 2023, and the ECP, in pursuance of the provisions of Section 17 of the Elections Act, 2017, initiated the exercise of delimitation.
Accordingly, five (05) delimitation committees were constituted for the
preparation of draft proposals of delimitation of constituencies of the National and Provincial
Assemblies vide Office Order No.l/2023 dated 17th August,2023′
As envisaged in Section 20 of the Elections Act, 2017 the principles of
delimitation have been followed in true spirit. The constituencies, as far as practicable, have been delimited having regard to the distribution of population in geographically compact areas, existing boundaries of administrative units, facilities of communication and public convenience and other cognate factors to ensure homogeneity in the creation of the constituencies.
The share of seats in the National Assembly and in the Provincial Assemblies
in respect of each district has been worked out on the basis of final results of the 07th Digital
population and Housing Census-2023 officially published on 07th August, 2023′ The population of province/area has been divided by the total number of general seats and the
average population or quota per National Assembly seat was obtained. similarly, thepopulation of a province was divided by the total number of general seats allocated to the provincial Assembly of a province for obtaining quota per seat. In calculating total number of seats, a fraction of 0.5 and above was generally taken as one seat and fraction below 0’5 ignored. Due to peculiar situation in Balochistan more than one district have been clubbed. Similarly few clubbing have also been made in other provinces where necessary.
The share of a district was determined by dividing the population of that
district with the quota per seat of the National Assembly, or as the case may be, of the Provincial AssemblY.
g. The National Assembly consists of 266 General seats and 60 seats reserved
for women.