GB- Election 2020- Some Interesting Facts
As the GB elections ends, a plethora of debate started in the media that the opposition parties who has formed an alliance under the Pakistan Democratic Moment (PDM) lost its “biania” (platform) of civilian supremacy to the PTI government as they have lost the elections. On the other end, opposition parties alleged pre-poll rigging, but a objective unbiased analyze of election outcome revealed PDM’s have actually won the hearts and minds of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan. Not only they have managed to secure more votes, but also could have secured more seats, if they would have contested by doing intelligent seat adjustments.
rnInstitute for Public Opinion Research (IPOR) took this initiative and analyzed the final results, which established that PTI got only 27% of the total vote cost, whereas PDM parties collectively secured 39% of the vote cast, with PPP securing 25% PMLN 12% and JUI(F)only 1% individually.
rnIn the following table, IPOR Analyzed that when this vote difference is transferred into seats, PDM should have been able to secure 11 seats with clear majority easily acquiring them the government.
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