Saleh Muhammad Khan retains NA-13 seat after vote recount

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MANSEHRA: Saleh Mohammad Khan, an independent candidate from NA-13, Mansehra-I, kept his seat after seven days of vote recounting.

According to Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Saleh Mohammad secured 108,950 votes while Sardar Shah Jahan Yousuf of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) secured 107,114 votes.

Earlier, PML-N placed a request for the electoral votes to be recounted and refused to accept the results. In the last general elections, Saleh Muhammad won a seat to the provincial assembly on a PML-N ticket. He resigned from the party before contesting for General Elections 2018.

Saleh Muhammad met Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan last week and announced his plans to join PTI.