NA-39 Bannu

NA-39 Bannu (این اے-39، بنوں) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. It covers the whole of district Bannu. The constituency was formerly known as NA-26 Bannu from 1977 to 2018. The name changed to NA-35 Bannu after the delimitation in 2018.^[2]

NA-39 Bannu
Constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan
Region	Bannu District
Electorate	723,459 [1]
Current constituency
Party	Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
Member(s)	Naseem Ali Shah
Created from	NA-26 Bannu

Members of Parliament

1977–2002: NA-26 Bannu

Election		Member	Party
	1977	Sahibzada Saifullah	PNA
	1985	Sahibzada Fateh-ullah	Independent
	1988	M. Hanif Khan	PPP
	1990	Ahmed Hassan	IJI
	1993	Malik Muzafar Khan	PPP
	1997	Muhammad Khan	PML-N

2002–present: NA-39 Bannu

Election		Member	Party
	2002	Maulana Nasib Ali Shah	MMA
	2008	Maulana Fazal ur Rehman	MMA
	2013	Akram Khan Durrani	JUI (F)
	2018	[a]
	By-election 2018	Zahid Akram Durrani	MMA
	2024	Naseem Ali Shah	SIC

Elections since 2002

2002 general election

2002 General Election: NA-26 Bannu ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	MMA	Syed Nasib Ali Shah	78,886	70.12
	Independent	Muhammad Mustafa Khan	31,867	28.33
	National Alliance	Saifur Rehman	1,140	1.01
	MQM	Muhammad Roshan	603	0.54
Majority			47,019	41.79
Turnout			112,496	38.53
	MMA gain from PML (N)

A total of 2,106 votes were rejected.

2008 general election

2008 General Election: NA-26 Bannu ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	MMA	Fazal-ur-Rehman	91,484	55.62	−14.50
	Independent	Malik Nasir Khan	56,546	34.38
	Independent	Lt. Colonel Alhaj Inamullah Wazir	11,588	7.05
	Independent	Muhammad Mustafa Khan	3,633	2.21
	Independent	Abdul Hafeez	626	0.38
	MQM	Muhammad Roshan Khan	586	0.36	−0.18
Majority			34,938	21.24
Turnout			164,463	43.42	+4.89

A total of 2,792 votes were rejected.

2013 general election

2013 General Election: NA-26 Bannu ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JUI-F	Akram Khan Durrani	78,294	44.74
	Independent	Naseem Ali Shah	45,270	25.87
	PTI	Matiullah Khan	25,392	14.51
	JI	Muhammad Ibrahim Khan	12,831	7.33
	Independent	Alamgir Khan	4,594	2.63
	Independent	Malik Akhtar Ali Khan	3,260	1.86
	PPP	Anwar Saifullah Khan	2,320	1.33
	Independent	Doctor Raham Baz Khan	806	0.46
	Independent	Abdul Samad Khan	432	0.25
	TTP	Nek Daraz Khan	404	0.23
	PkMAP	Main Asmatullah Shah	348	0.20
	Independent	Zafar Jehangir Khan	323	0.18
	MQM	Imran Khan	260	0.15	−0.21
	Independent	Muhammad Hayat Khan	251	0.14
	MDM	Faridullah	112	0.06
	Independent	Muqarab Khan Wazir	58	0.03
	APML	Hizbullah	52	0.03
Majority			33,024	18.87
Turnout			175,007	39.00	−4.42
	JUI (F) gain from MMA

A total of 5,300 votes were rejected.

2018 general election

Further information: Pakistani general election, 2018

General elections were held on 25 July 2018. Imran Khan, the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, won the election but vacated this constituency in favor of NA-95 (Mianwali-I).^[5]

General election 2018: NA-35 Bannu ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PTI	Imran Khan	113,822	47.63
	MMA	Akram Khan Durrani	106,820	44.70
	Others	Others (ten candidates)	18,320	7.67
Turnout			246,318	42.55	3.55
Total valid votes			238,962	97.01
Rejected ballots			7,356	2.99
Majority			7,002	2.93
Registered electors			578,872
	PTI gain from JUI (F)

By-election 2018

Further information: Pakistani by-elections, 2018

By-elections were held in this constituency on 14 October 2018.^[7]

By-election 2018: NA-35 Bannu ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	MMA	Zahid Akram Durrani	60,993	49.33	4.63
	PTI	Naseem Ali Shah	37,622	30.43	17.20
	Independent	Malik Nasir Khan	21,821	17.65	17.65
	Others	Others (five candidates)	3,203	2.59
Turnout			124,916	21.43	21.12
Total valid votes			123,639	98.98	1.97
Rejected ballots			1,281	1.02	1.97
Majority			23,371	18.90	21.83
Registered electors			582,785
	MMA gain from PTI		Swing	10.98

2024 general election

Further information: Pakistani general election, 2024

General elections were held on 8 February 2024. Naseem Ali Shah won with 146,667 votes.^[9]

General election 2024: NA-39 Bannu

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Nasim Ali Shah[b]	146,667	52.71	22.32
	JUI (F)	Zahid Akram Durrani	111,293	40.00	9.41
	Others	Others (seventeen candidates)	20,298	7.29
Turnout			285,505	39.46	18.07
Total valid votes			278,258	97.46
Rejected ballots			1,281	2.54
Majority			35,374	12.71
Registered electors			723,459

See also

• NA-38 Karak
• NA-40 North Waziristan

Notes

1. Imran Khan won the election but vacated this seat in favor of NA-95 (Mianwali-I)
2. Filed nomination papers as PTI candidate but ECP allowed him to run as an Independent