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Constituency NA 125

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Party
  
PML N

Number of members
  
1

Region
  
Lahore District

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Constituency NA-125 (Lahore-VIII) (Urdu: این اے-۱۲۵، لاهور-۸‎) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. The constituency includes DHA and Cantonment, the most affluent areas of Lahore. But it also have considerable population of adjoining villages on Badian Road.

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Election 2002

General elections were held on 10 Oct 2002. Humayun Akhtar Khan of PML Q won by 22,405 votes.

Election 2008

General elections were held on 18 Feb 2008. Khawaja Saad Rafique succeeded in the election with 70,752 votes and became the member of National Assembly.

Election 2013

General elections were held on 11 May 2013. Khawaja Saad Rafique of PML-N won by 123,416 votes and became the member of National Assembly.

Rigging in Election 2013

When the constituency was examined by the NADRA on December 14th 2014, they concluded that more than 20% of the votes could not be verified. The said votes were rejected for want of verification of thumbprint and CNIC numbers, whereas at some instances, one person had cast multiple votes, the report said.A re-election was ordered by the election tribunal and the Election Commission of Pakistan de-notified Khawaja Saad Rafique.The decision was later turned down by Supreme court of Pakistan restoring winning candidate seat.

References

Constituency NA-125 Wikipedia