NA-18 Haripur

NA-18 Haripur (این اے-18، ہری پور) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. It covers tho whole of district Haripur. The constituency was formerly known as NA-19 (Haripur) from 1977 to 2018. The name changed to NA-17 (Haripur) after the delimitation in 2018 and to NA-18 (Haripur) after the delimitation in 2022.^[2]

NA-18 Haripur
Constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan
Region	Haripur District
Electorate	724,915 [1]
Current constituency
Party	Independent
Member(s)	Omar Ayub Khan
Created from	NA-17 (Haripur)

Members of Parliament

1977–2002: NA-19 Haripur

Election		Member	Party
	1977	Maulana Sadrushaheed	PNA
	1985	Maula Dad Khan	Independent
	1988	Maulvi Ali Akbar Khan	JUI (F)
	1990	Maulvi Ali Akbar Khan	JUI (F)
	1993	Syed Abbas Shah	PML-N
	1997	Malik Nasir Khan	PML-N

2002–2018: NA-19 Haripur

Election		Member	Party
	2002	Omar Ayub Khan	PML (Q)
	2008	Sardar Muhammad Mushtaq	PML (N)
	2013	Raja Aamer Zaman	PTI
	2015 By-election	Babar Nawaz Khan	PML (N)

2018–2023: NA-17 Haripur

Election		Member	Party
	2018	Omar Ayub Khan	PTI

2023–present: NA-18 Haripur

Election		Member	Party
	2024	Omar Ayub Khan	IND

Detailed results

2002 general election

2002 General Election: NA-19 (Haripur) ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PML-Q	Omar Ayub Khan	81,496	40.79
	PML-N	Syed Muhammad Sabir Shah	61,359	30.71
	MMA	Ghulam Nabi	30,514	15.28
	PPPP	Sardar Abdur Raoof Khan	16,902	8.46
	PML-J	Muhammad Shehryar Khan	5,956	2.98
	PAT	Abdul Hamid Khan	1,978	0.99
	Independent	Syed Waqar Hussain Shah	1,582	0.79
Majority			20,137	10.08
Turnout			199,787	45.44
	PML(Q) gain from PML (N)

A total of 6,277 votes were rejected.

2008 general election

2008 General Election: NA-19 (Haripur) ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PML-N	Sardar Muhammad Mushtaq Khan	98,670	44.35	+13.64
	Independent	Raja Aamer Zaman	71,254	32.02
	PML	Omar Ayub Khan	50,631	22.76
	Independent	Syed Waqar Hussain Shah	1,363	0.61	−0.18
	Independent	Dr Riaz Baig	580	0.26
Majority			27,416	12.33
Turnout			222,498	47.10	+1.66
	PML(N) gain from PML (Q)

A total of 5,757 votes were rejected.

2013 general election

2013 General Election: NA-19 (Haripur) ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PTI	Raja Aamer Zaman	116,979	40.61
	PML-N	Omar Ayub Khan	114,807	39.85	−4.50
	JUI-F	Pir Syed Alamzeb Shah	19,860	6.89
	PPPP	Sardar Muhammad Mushtaq Khan	16,474	5.72
	JI	Ghulam Nabi	5,117	1.78
	Tehreek-e-Suba Hazara	Major Rtd Jameel Ehsan Kiyani	3,625	1.26
	Independent	Irum Fatima	3,590	1.25
	Independent	Farooq Shah	3,096	1.07
	Independent	Faiza Bibi Rasheed	2,464	0.86
	Independent	Muhammad Riaz Baig	1,346	0.47	+0.21
	MQM	Habibullah Khan	699	0.24
Majority			2,172	0.76
Turnout			288,057	55.55	+8.45
	PTI gain from PML (N)

A total of 8,467 votes were rejected.

2015 By-election

A by-election took place on 16 August 2015.

2015 By-election: NA-19 (Haripur) ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PML-N	Babar Nawaz Khan	137,227	58.63	+18.78
	PTI	Raja Aamer Zaman	90,702	38.75	−1.86
	JUI-F	Pir Syed Aalamzeb Shah	2,473	1.06	−5.83
	PPPP	Muhammad Tahir Qureshi	1,396	0.60	−5.12
	Independent	Shah Khan	939	0.40
	Independent	Raja Sardar Zaman Hazarvi	583	0.25
	Independent	Safeer Muhammad Gujjar Naqibi	418	0.18
	Independent	Khan Ser	157	0.07
	Independent	Muhammad Aqeel Khan Durrani	153	0.06
Majority			46,525	19.88
Turnout			234,048	44.00	−11.55
	PML(N) gain from PTI

A total of 3,918 votes were rejected.

2018 general election

Further information: Pakistani general election, 2018

General elections were held on 25 July 2018. The constituency got the third-highest total votes polled in all of Pakistan. Omar Ayub Khan of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf won, getting the most votes by any candidate in all of Pakistan.^[5]

General election 2018: NA-17 (Haripur)^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PTI	Omar Ayub Khan	172,609	50.27	11.52
	PML(N)	Babar Nawaz Khan	132,756	38.66	19.97
	Others	Others (eleven candidates)	29,014	8.48
Turnout			343,442	52.22	8.22
Rejected ballots			8,862	2.59
Majority			39,853	11.61
Registered electors			657,628
	PTI gain from PML(N)

2024 general election

Further information: Pakistani general election, 2024

General elections were held on 8 February 2024.^[7] Omar Ayub Khan won with 194,429 votes.

General election 2024: NA-18 Haripur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Omar Ayub Khan[lower-alpha 1]	194,429	55.39	5.12
	PML(N)	Babar Nawaz Khan	113,079	32.22	6.44
	TLP	Muhammad Saleh	12,382	3.53	0.65
	Others	Others (thirteen candidates)	31,100	8.86
Turnout			362,748	50.04	2.18
Rejected ballots			11,758	3.24
Majority			81,350	23.18	11.57
Registered electors			724,915

See also

• NA-17 Abbottabad-II
• NA-19 Swabi-I

Notes

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

References

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 16 May 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4. http://test1947.ecp.gov.pk/ConstResult.aspx?Const_Id=NA-19&type=NA ^{[dead link]}
5. "Highest number of votes cast in Hafizabad during General Election 2018". www.geo.tv. 28 July 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
6. "ECP – Election Commission of Pakistan". www.ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
7. "Election Commission of Pakistan". ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 12 April 2024.

External links

• Election result's official website