Overview
- Zeeshan secured 91 votes to defeat PML-N-backed Taj Mohammad Afridi, who received 45, with one ballot declared invalid.
- Out of 145 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly members, 137 cast ballots, while four Awami National Party lawmakers abstained.
- Voting ran from 9:30am to 4pm in the Assembly’s Jirga Hall under returning officer Saeed Gul, and proceedings were reported as peaceful.
- A day before the poll, the Supreme Court dismissed Faraz’s bid to halt the by-election after the Peshawar High Court had already refused to reinstate him.
- Zeeshan said his priority is securing Imran Khan’s release, and Chief Minister Sohail Afridi publicly backed him, as media accounts differed on whether three or five candidates contested.