The Election Commission of Pakistan has announced bye-elections on 31 more National Assembly seats vacated by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s resignations.

The polling day for these seats has been set for March 19. Nomination papers from hopeful candidates will be accepted between February 10 and 14. The scrutiny of these applications will be completed by February 18 after which the candidates will be allowed to file appeals. The appeals will be settled by February 27.

The elections will be held on

• NA 2 Swat-I
• NA 3 Swat-II
• NA 5 Upper Dir
• NA 6 Lower Dir-I
• NA 7 Lower Dir-II
• NA 8 Malakand Protected Area
• NA 9 Buner
• NA 16 Abottabad-II
• NA 19 Swabi-II
• NA 20 Mardan-I
• NA 28 Peshawar-II
• NA 30 Peshawar-IV
• NA 34 Karak
• NA 40 Bajaur-I
• NA 42 Mohmand
• NA 44 Khyber-II
• NA 61 Rawalpindi-V
• NA 70 Gujrat-III
• NA 87 Hafizabad-I
• NA 93 Khushab-I
• NA 96 Mianwali-II
• NA 107 Faisalabad-VII
• NA 109 Faisalabad-IX
• NA 135 Lahore-XIII
• NA 150 Khanewal-I
• NA 152 Khanewal-III
• NA 158 Multan-V
• NA 164 Vehari-III
• NA 165 Vehari-IV
• NA 177 Rahim Yar Khan-III
• NA 187 Layyah-I

The commission had made a similar announcement on January 27, when it said that 33 constituencies would go into bye-elections on March 16.

Since the PTI’s resignations were accepted in three parts in the month of January, another schedule of elections is expected to be announced soon.