KARACHI:  (DNA) – Polling for National Assembly seat, NA-247,  Sindh Assembly seat, PS-111, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly seat, PK-71, got underway on Sunday morning.

The voting process in these constituencies started at 8:00am and will continue until 5:00pm without any break.

According to ECP, a total of 546,451 registered voters will cast their ballots in NA-247 and 178,965 voters in PS-111.

Twelve candidates are competing in the electoral battle for the NA-247 seat while eleven are contesting for the Sindh Assembly seat.

The NA seat was vacated by Dr Arif Alv after his election to the office of President of Pakistan, while PS-111 was vacated by Sindh Governor Imran Ismail.

PTI’s Aftab Hussain Siddiqui, PSP’s Arshad Vohra, MQM-P’s Sadiq Iftikhar and PPP’s Qaiser Khan Nizamani are notable among candidates in the run for NA-24, while the PTI’s Shehzad Qureshi, MQM-P’s Jehanzeb Mughal, PML-N’s Mohammad Zahid Hussain and civil society activist Muhammad Jibran Nasir are among those vying for PS-111.

The PK-71 fell vacant after Shah Farman was appointed as Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. There are 133,451 registered voters in the PK-71 constituency.

PTI’s Zulfiqar Khan, ANP’s Salahuddin, and independent candidates Dildar Khan, Abdul Karim Khan and Fazle Haq Kohi Damani are in the run for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly seat.