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Constituency NA-164

former constituency of the National Assembly of Pakistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ12780073 ↗
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Constituency NA-164 (Pakpattan-I) (Urdu: این اے-۱۶۴، پاکپتّن-۱) was a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. After the 2018 delimitations, it has been merged into NA-145 (Pakpattan-I).

Election 2002

General elections were held on 10 Oct 2002. Pir Muhammad Shah Khaggah of PML-Q won by 65,494 votes.

Election 2008

General elections were held on 18 Feb 2008. Sardar Munsib Ali Dogar of PML-N won by 35,597 votes.

Election 2013

General elections were held on 11 May 2013. Sardar Mansab Ali Dogar of PML-N won by 67,984 votes and became the member of National Assembly.

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This entry incorporates text from “Constituency NA-164” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.