The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday released the provisional report on the delimitation of constituencies based on the recently concluded census.

The electoral watchdog said that the publication of preliminary constituencies will continue for 30 days till October 26. While voters of a constituency can approach the ECP if they have any objection to the delimitation.

The electoral body constituted five delimitation committees for the preparation of draft proposals for the delimitation of constituencies of the assemblies.

Seats allocations

Punjab has the highest number of seats in the National Assembly followed by Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Islamabad.

Punjab has been given 141 seats with a population of 127.6 million and each constituency has been divided based on a quota of 905,595. In the Punjab Assembly, 297 seats have been allocated with each quota seat determined at 429,929.

With a population of 55.6 million population, Sindh was allocated 61 National Assembly seats which have been divided based on a quota of 913,052 per seat. For the Sindh Assembly, 130 seats have been divided on a quota of 428,432 per seat.

The population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa clocked in at 40.8 million as the province has been allocated 45 NA seats divided on a quota of 907,913. The KP Assembly has been given 115 seats which have been divided on a quota of 355,270.

The population figures came at 14.8 million in Balochistan. The province has been given 16 NA seats and each constituency has been dived on a quota of 930,900. Balochistan’s provincial assembly was allocated 51 seats and each seat was divided on the quota of 292,047.

The federal capital, Islamabad, has a population of 2.3 million and has been given 3 seats and each seat quota has been determined 787,954.

As per the ECP report, the population of the province or area has been divided by the total number of general seats, and the average population or quota per National Assembly seat was obtained.

“Similarly, the population of a province was divided by the total number of general seats allocated to the provincial assembly of a province for obtaining a quota per seat. In calculating a total number of seats, a fraction of 0.5 and above was generally taken as one seat and a fraction below 0.5 was ignored,” the report said.