Winners and losers in Pakistan elections

As the nation votes to elect its representatives on February 8, we're seeing some big changes and important victories, and there's still more to come despite the passage of nearly 24 hours.

Despite the suspension of mobile phone and Internet services, large numbers of people across the country exercised their right to vote to elect their representatives to national and provincial assemblies (in 855 electoral districts) in the fifth largest democracy. biggest in the world.

The 2024 elections surpassed the previous ones in 2018 in several aspects, including a record budget allocation of Rs 48 billion, a substantial increase in the number of voters exceeding 50% of the total population, an unprecedented proportion of independent candidates , a total of almost 18,000 candidates and a substantial amount of paper is needed to print 260 million ballots.

As people voted, we saw prime ministerial aspirants from two major parties, Nawaz Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, emerge victorious. However, the results are still coming in and it is unclear when the full results will be compiled.