PP-203 By-Election Result Declared: PML-N’s Asad Hanif Jatt Wins Chichawatni Seat as NA-77 Count Continues
File photo of Chichawatni railway station — the PP-203 by-election was held in this city.
The by-election result for PP-203 in Chichawatni is in — the PML-N’s Asad Hanif Jatt has won the seat with 42,114 votes, defeating Tehreek-e-Ehsas Pakistan’s Muhammad Awais Mahmood, who polled 24,512. According to Form-47, the returning officer’s provisional consolidated statement, the margin of victory was 17,602 votes, with turnout at 27.6 per cent.
PML-N holds on to the Chichawatni seat
The seat fell vacant after the death on 17 September of PML-N MPA Chaudhry Muhammad Hanif Jutt, who died of cardiac arrest. His nephew, Asad Hanif Jatt, was the party’s candidate. Polling ran from 8am to 5pm on Sunday across 185 polling stations, with more than 258,000 voters registered in the constituency.
NA-77 count still going, PML-N narrowly ahead
In Gujranwala’s NA-77, meanwhile, counting is still under way, with the PML-N’s Rashid Basheer Virk holding a narrow lead over Markazi Muslim League’s Muhammad Ibrahim Gujjar. Form-45 figures from 125 of the constituency’s 333 polling stations put Virk on 13,104 votes against Gujjar’s 11,708 — a gap of just 1,396. The Election Commission has warned that the NA-77 result could be withheld until a final decision in the code-of-conduct case against Information Minister Attaullah Tarar.
Second by-election in PP-203 in two years
This was the second by-election in PP-203 since the 2024 general elections. The seat was first won by PTI-backed independent Rai Murtaza Iqbal with 55,874 votes; he was later disqualified after a conviction by an anti-terrorism court, and Hanif Jutt won the November 2025 by-election that followed with 46,820 votes.
