NA-238 Karachi East-IV

NA-238 Karachi East-IV (این اے-238، کراچی مشرقی-4) is a newly-created a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. It mainly comprises the areas of Jamshed Quarters Subdivision, and Firozabad Subdivision that were previously in the western portion of the old NA-252.^[2][3]

NA-238 Karachi East-IV
Constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan
Region	Jamshed Town, Firozabad Town (partly), Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town (partly) and Karachi Cantonment (partly) of Karachi East District in Karachi
Electorate	561,283 [1]
Current constituency
Created	2018
Party	Muttahida Qaumi Movement – Pakistan
Member(s)	Sadiq Iftikhar
Created from	NA-252 Karachi-XIV

Members of Parliament

2018–2023: NA-245 Karachi East-IV

Election		Member	Party
	2018-2022	Aamir Liaquat Hussain	PTI
	2022	Mahmood Moulvi	PTI

2024–present: NA-238 Karachi East-IV

Election		Member	Party
	2024	Sadiq Iftikhar	MQM–P

Election 2018

Further information: Pakistani general election, 2018

General elections were held on 25 July 2018.

General election 2018: NA-245 Karachi East-IV ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PTI	Aamir Liaquat Hussain	56,664	33.96
	MQM-P	Farooq Sattar	35,429	21.23
	TLP	Allama Muhammad Ahmed Raza Amjadi	20,733	12.42
	MMA	Saifuddin	20,142	12.07
	PML(N)	Khawaja Tariq Nazir	9,681	5.80
	PPP	Farrukh Niaz Tanoli	8,822	5.29
	PSP	Sagheer Ahmad	6,222	3.73
	Others	Others (eight candidates)	6,294	3.77
Turnout			166,868	37.62
Rejected ballots			2,881	1.73
Majority			21,235	12.73
Registered electors			443,540
	PTI gain from MQM-P

By-election 2022

A by-election was held on 21 August 2022 due to the death of Aamir Liaquat Hussain, the former MNA from this seat.^[5]

By-election 2022: NA-245 Karachi East-IV

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PTI	Mahmood Moulvi	29,475	48.85	14.89
	MQM-P	Moeed Anwar	13,193	21.87	0.64
	TLP	Ahmed Raza Amjadi	9,836	16.30	3.88
	Independent	Farooq Sattar	3,479	5.77
	PSP	Syed Hafeezuddin	1,177	1.95	1.78
	Others	Others (twelve candidates)	3,576	5.93
Turnout			60,740	11.79	25.83
Total valid votes			60,336	99.33	1.06
Rejected ballots			404	0.67	1.06
Majority			16,282	26.99	14.26
Registered electors			515,003
	PTI hold		Swing	N/A

Election 2024

Further information: Pakistani general election, 2024

General elections were held on 8 February 2024. Sadiq Iftikhar won the election with 54,885 votes.

General election 2024: NA-238 Karachi East-IV

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	MQM-P	Sadiq Iftikhar	54,885	32.67	10.80
	Independent	Haleem Adil Sheikh[lower-alpha 1]	36,885	21.95	26.90
	JI	Saif Uddin	36,281	21.60	N/A
	TLP	Muhammad Waseem	10,594	6.31	9.99
	PPP	Pir Omer Uddin Zafar	10,464	6.23	5.68
	Others	Others (Twenty one candidates)	18,896	11.25
Turnout			171,146	30.49	18.70
Total valid votes			168,005	98.16
Rejected ballots			3,141	1.84
Majority			18,000	10.71
Registered electors			561,283
	MQM-P gain from PTI

See also

• NA-237 Karachi East-III
• NA-239 Karachi South-I

Notes

1. Filed nomination papers as PTI candidate but ECP allowed him to run as an Independent

References

1. "Election Commission of Pakistan". ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
2. "ECP - Election Commission of Pakistan". www.ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
3. Final List of National Assembly Constituencies (PDF). Election Commission of Pakistan. 2018. p. 68. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 May 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
4. "ECP – Election Commission of Pakistan". www.ecp.gov.pk. Archived from the original on 4 August 2018. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
5. "PTI retains Aamir Liaquat Hussain's vacant NA-245 seat in by-poll". Geo News. 21 August 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2022.