Overview
- Voting is scheduled for 21 seats on Sunday, August 2, covering nine Muzaffarabad-division constituencies and 12 refugee seats with more than one million registered voters.
- Election officials say all materials and polling staff have been dispatched and 1,483 polling stations and 2,219 booths in Muzaffarabad have been prepared for the vote.
- Authorities have classified stations by sensitivity and deployed large forces to secure polling, including 18,000 security personnel in Muzaffarabad and about 4,029 police in Rawalpindi to protect refugee-seat polling and material transport.
- A total of 351 candidates are contesting the round—208 in Muzaffarabad and 143 for refugee seats—with major parties PML-N, PPP, IPP, AJ&K Muslim Conference and Jamaat-e-Islami participating while PTI is boycotting the polls.
- The PPP has pressed complaints about alleged rigging in the first phase and asked for open hearings, election authorities insist arrangements are complete, and observers should watch for post‑poll disputes over results.