{"id":70152,"date":"2018-07-01T13:53:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T08:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=70152"},"modified":"2018-07-01T13:53:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T08:53:16","slug":"ecp-publishes-final-list-of-candidates-allots-election-symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=70152","title":{"rendered":"ECP publishes final list of candidates, allots election symbols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad, July 1 (TNS): The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) published the final list of candidates and allotted them election symbols as per schedule.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 21,482 candidates had filed nomination papers this time and several have withdrawn. For 2013 general elections, over 28,000 nomination papers were filed.<\/p>\n<p>June 30 was the last day for publication of the final lists of candidates and allotment of election symbols. A day earlier the candidates had the opportunity to withdraw their nomination papers.<\/p>\n<p>Final lists of candidates along with their symbols have been posted outside the offices of returning officers and district returning officers countrywide.<\/p>\n<p>In Islamabad, twenty eight candidates are in the race for the NA-52 seat whilst for NA-54, the main contestants are Anjum Aqeel of PML (N), Asad Umar of PTI, Imran Ashraf of PPP and Mian Aslam of MMA.<\/p>\n<p>PTI Chairman Imran Khan, Ayesha Gulalai and former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi are vying for the NA-53 seat among others.<\/p>\n<p>ECP officials told our correspondent that the process of consolidation of data is currently underway and the completion of the process will take some time.<\/p>\n<p>The final list of candidates will be published on the election commission&#8217;s website after the consolidation of entire data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Islamabad, July 1 (TNS): The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) published the final list of candidates and allotted them election symbols as per schedule. A total of 21,482 candidates had filed nomination papers this time and several have withdrawn. For 2013 general elections, over 28,000 nomination papers were filed. June 30 was the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70153,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70152\/revisions\/70153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}