{"id":70342,"date":"2018-07-03T17:22:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T12:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=70342"},"modified":"2018-07-03T17:22:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T12:22:15","slug":"elections-2018-ecp-issues-final-list-of-candidates-contesting-general-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=70342","title":{"rendered":"Elections 2018: ECP issues final list of candidates contesting general polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">Islamabad, July 3 (TNS): The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) issued the final list of candidates taking part in general elections, state media reported on Tuesday.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">According to details, 3675 candidates are contesting for National Assembly seats while 8,895 candidates are taking part for Provincial seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">The Candidates for National Assembly seats include 760 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 1,696 from Punjab, 303 from Baluchistan and 872 from Sindh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">4,242 candidates are in the run for Punjab Assembly, 1007 for Baluchistan Assembly, 1264 for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly and 2382 for Sindh legislature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">44 candidates are contesting for minority seats in National Assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, July 3 (TNS): The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) issued the final list of candidates taking part in general elections, state media reported on Tuesday.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 According to details, 3675 candidates are contesting for National Assembly seats while 8,895 candidates are taking part for Provincial seats. The Candidates for National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70342","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\/70342","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=70342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70343,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70342\/revisions\/70343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}