ECP delimitation for NA, PA constituencies announced

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Monday announced the delimitation schedule for the National Assembly and Provincial Assemblies constituencies for the general elections, barring the creation of new administrative units.

The Election Commission last week decided to carry out delimitations based on the National Census 2017 as there was no possibility of the digital census insight hitherto. Following the historic merger of erstwhile FATA with KP. The seats of former have reduced to 6. The total number of constituencies of the National Assembly lowered to 266 from the previous 272.

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According to the schedule, from Monday (yesterday), no new administrative unit will formed anywhere in the country. Chief secretaries and provincial election commissioners will provide required maps. Also related documents for the delimitation exercise from April 11, 2022 to April 26, 2022.

Similarly, training for delimitation committees will start from April 20, 2022, to April 24, 2022. Preliminary delimitations will published on May 28, 2022. From May 29, 2022, to June 28, 2022, people will file their objections. Also findings to the Election Commission on the initial delimitation.

Accordingly, the Election Commission will decide all objections from July 1, 2022, to July 30, 2022. The final list of constituencies will published on August 03, 2022.

The Election Commission, in recent a letter to the President, had contended that the next general election would be possible in October this year. Meanwhile, a meeting of the ECP held under the chair of Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja and attended by the members of the Commission and senior officials.