NA-34 (Lower Dir)

NA-34 (Lower Dir) (Urdu: این اے-۳۴، لور دیر) was a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. It was split into NA-6 (Lower Dir-I) and NA-7 (Lower Dir-II) in 2018.^[1]

NA-34 (Lower Dir)
Former constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan
Region	Lower Dir District
Former constituency
Created	1977
Abolished	2018
Replaced by	NA-6 (Lower Dir-I) NA-7 (Lower Dir-II)

Members of Parliament

1970—1977 NW-15 Chitral-cum-Dir

Election		Member	Party
	1970	Jafir Ali Shah	PML(Qayyum)

1977—1988: NA-25 Malakand-cum-Dir

Election		Member	Party
	1977	Gauhar Rehman	PNA
	1985	Maulana Muhammad Inayat-ur-Rehman	Independent

1988—2002: NA-25 Dir

Election		Member	Party
	1988	Sahibzada Fathullah	IJI
	1990	Najmuddin Khan	PDA
	1993	Sahibzada Fathullah	PIF
	1997	Inayat Khan	PML(N)

Since 2002: NA-34 Lower Dir

Election		Member	Party
	2002	Qazi Hussain Ahmad	MMA
	2008	Malak Azmat Khan	PPPP
	2013	Sahibzada Muhammad Yaqoob	JI

Elections since 2002

2002 General Election

2002 General Election: NA-34 (Lower Dir) ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	MMA	Qazi Hussain Ahmad	53,799	59.33
	ANP	Muhammad Ayub Khan	34,078	37.58
	PTI	Muhammad Bashir Khan	1,136	1.25
	PML-Q	Sardar Abul Hakeem Tajak Advocate	1,123	1.24
	Independent	Aurangzeb Khan	313	0.35
	PML-N	Muhammad Rashid Khan Advocate	224	0.25
Majority			19,721	21.75
Turnout			90,673	28.28
	MMA gain from Independent

A total of 2,072 votes were rejected.

2003 By-election

Qazi Hussain Ahmad won the general election in 2002 but he decided to take up the seat that he won in his native constituency, and thus vacated the seat. Therefore, in January 2003 bye-elections were held.^[3] The results are shown in the following table.

2003 By-election: NA-34 (Lower Dir) ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	MMA	Abdul Ghafoor Ghawas	45,815	59.48	+0.15
	PPP (S)	Ahmad Hassan Khan	29,581	38.40
	PPP	Aurangzeb Khan	1,632	2.12
Majority			16,234	21.08
	MMA hold		Swing

2008 General Election

2008 General Election: NA-34 (Lower Dir) ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PPP	Malak Azmat Khan	38,068	48.34
	ANP	Muhammad Ayoub Khan	24,480	31.09	−6.49
	MMA	Qazi Fazal Ullah	11,449	14.54	−44.79
	PML	Javed Iqbal	3,366	4.27
	Independent	Shamsul Qamar Khan	761	0.97
	Independent	Dr Bahramand Khan	625	0.79
Majority			13,588	17.25
Turnout			78,749	24.20	−4.08
	PPP gain from MMA

A total of 2,746 votes were rejected.

2013 General Election

2013 General Election: NA-34 (Lower Dir) ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JI	Sahibzada Muhammad Yaqoob	49,475	33.13
	PTI	Muhammad Bashir Khan	45,066	30.18
	JUI-F	Fazlullah	22,552	15.10
	ANP	Muhammad Azam Khan	8,959	6.00	−25.09
	Tehreek-e-Pasmanada Awam Pakistan	Haji Muhammad Umar	7,206	4.83
	PPP	Malak Azmat Khan	6,275	4.20	−44.14
	PML-N	Farid Khan Yousafzai	5,818	3.90
	Independent	Alam Khan	2,218	1.49
	TTP	Rahimullah Khan	810	0.54
	Independent	Mst Nasrat Begum	187	0.13
	Independent	Malak Rahmatullah	185	0.12
	Independent	Syed Nasar Shah	181	0.12
	Independent	Hayatullah Khan Sadat	163	0.11
	APML	Shafiur Rahman	159	0.10
	MDM	Abdul Hanan	77	0.05
Majority			4,409	2.95
Turnout			149,331	30.15	+5.95
	JI gain from PPP

A total of 5,364 votes were rejected.

References

1. Final List of National Assembly Constituencies (PDF). Election Commission of Pakistan. 2018. p. 2.
2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2018-05-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. Asghar, Raja (16 January 2003). "PML-Q, MMA leading in polls: PPP boycotts on most seats; five killed in Sindh violence". dawn.com.
4. http://archives.dawn.com/2003/01/16/top1.htm PML-Q, MMA leading in polls: PPP boycotts on most seats; five killed in Sindh violence
5. http://test1947.ecp.gov.pk/ConstResult.aspx?Const_Id=NA-34&type=NA ^{[dead link‍]}

External links

• Election result's official website