Overview
- The Election Commission of Gilgit-Baltistan issued official notifications for 21 of 24 constituencies, a step reported by multiple outlets that gave the Pakistan Peoples Party the largest share in the notified results.
- The commission allocated six reserved women’s seats and three technocrat seats from party priority lists, with PPP taking three women’s seats and one technocrat seat, PML-N two women’s seats and one technocrat seat, and IPP one women’s and one technocrat seat.
- PPP and PML-N agreed a power-sharing formula that hands the chief ministership to the PPP and gives the governor, deputy speaker and opposition leader posts to the PML-N, and the PPP nominated Advocate Amjad Hussain as its chief minister candidate.
- Three constituencies — GBA-9 (Skardu-III), GBA-15 (Diamer-I) and GBA-17 (Diamer-III) — remain withheld under orders of the Gilgit-Baltistan Supreme Appellate Court and partial re-polls at selected stations were ordered in several districts, so final assembly arithmetic could still change.
- The Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party bolstered its strength when four independents joined it and then announced support for the PPP-led coalition, clearing the way for government-formation steps that are due to begin with the assembly’s inaugural session.