The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has changed the by-election schedule for 2012 in accordance with the orders of the Supreme Court. The ECP has now set February 25 as polling day for vacant National Assembly seats instead of February 20, and February 15 as polling day for vacant provincial assembly seats. The apex court had ordered the commission to hold the by-elections on the basis of new electoral lists instead of the old ones. The ECP therefore delayed the dates of by-elections for 10 seats of the National Assembly and provincial assemblies as it completes the electoral lists.