Overview
- After the Punjab Local Government Act 2025 took effect, the Election Commission withdrew its December schedule, stopped ongoing delimitations, and gave the province four weeks to finalize delimitation and demarcation rules.
- Local body contests will be held under the new law, with each Union Council electing nine councillors on a non-party basis and councillors required to declare a party affiliation within 30 days of being elected.
- The earlier 2022 local government framework and related delimitation notifications have been repealed, with Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja chairing the meeting that approved the shift.
- By-elections in five Punjab constituencies—NA-96, NA-104, NA-143, PP-98, and PP-203—are now set for November 23, with appeals due October 24, tribunal decisions by October 31, final lists on November 1, withdrawals by November 3, and symbols allotted on November 4 after earlier flood-related postponements.
- The ECP set October 31 as the deadline for postal ballot applications, limiting eligibility to government and armed forces personnel and their families, voters with a NADRA disability CNIC, prisoners, and officials on election duty.