NA-179 Kot Addu-I

{{Short description|Constituency of the National Assembly of Pakistan}}

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|name=NA-179 Kot Addu-I

|year=2018

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|parl_name=National Assembly of Pakistan

|party=Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf|member=Shabbir Ali Qureshi

|image=NA-179 Kot Addu-I (2024).svg

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|region=Chowk Sarwar Shaheed Tehsil and Kot Addu Tehsil (partly) including Kot Addu city of Kot Addu District

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|previous=NA-176 (Muzaffargarh-I)

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NA-179 Kot Addu-I ({{nastaliq|این اے-179، کوٹ ادو-1}}) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. It mainly consists of the city of Kot Addu and the towns of Dera Din Panah and Chowk Sarwar Shaheed of Kot Addu District, areas which were previously in the old NA-176 before the 2018 delimitations.{{Cite web |title=ECP - Election Commission of Pakistan |url=https://www.ecp.gov.pk/frmGenericPage.aspx?PageID=3308 |access-date=2022-12-25 |website=www.ecp.gov.pk}}{{Cite book|url=https://ecp.gov.pk/Documents/delimitation2018finalissued/National%20Assembly.pdf|title=Final List of National Assembly Constituencies|publisher=Election Commission of Pakistan|year=2018|pages=53|access-date=2018-05-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180510050630/https://ecp.gov.pk/Documents/delimitation2018finalissued/National%20Assembly.pdf|archive-date=2018-05-10|url-status=live}}

Election 2018

General elections are scheduled to be held on 25 July 2018. Independent candidate Shabbir Ali Qureshi was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan from this constituency.{{Cite web|url=http://electionpakistani.com/ge2018/NA-181.htm|title = NA-181 Muzaffargarh Election 2018 Full Result Candidates Vote}}

{{Election box begin |title=General election 2018: NA-181 Muzaffargarh-I}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|change=|percentage=32.33|votes=64,154|candidate=Shabbir Ali Qureshi|party=Independent politician}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Sultan Mehmood|votes=54,484|percentage=27.46|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf|candidate=Ghulam Mustafa Khar|votes=48,975|percentage=24.68|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Pakistan Peoples Party|candidate=Ihsan Ul Haq Ahsan|votes=19,620|percentage=9.89|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Muhammad Ashraf Khan Rind|votes=3,845|percentage=1.94|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Muhammad Sajjad Shahid|votes=3,397|percentage=1.71|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Allah-o-Akbar Tehreek|candidate=Benazir Fatima|votes=1,330|percentage=0.67|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Ahmad Yar|votes=1,069|percentage=0.54|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Farooq Ur Rehman|votes=753|percentage=0.38|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Independent politician|candidate=Khalida Perveen|votes=616|percentage=0.31|change=}}{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Pakistan National Muslim League|candidate=Iftikhar Ali|votes=202|percentage=0.1|change=}}

{{Election box total valid

|votes =198,445

|percentage =96.88

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{{Election box rejected

|votes =6,396

|percentage =3.12

|change =

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{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors =326,617

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Election 2024

General elections were held on 8 February 2024. Shabbir Ali Qureshi won the election with 104,329 votes.{{Election box begin |title=General election 2024: NA-179 Kot Addu-I}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|change={{increase}}23.78|percentage=48.46|votes=104,329|candidate=Shabbir Ali Qureshi{{efn|Filed nomination papers as PTI candidate but ECP allowed him to run as an Independent|name=Candidate status}}|party=Independent politician}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Pakistan Muslim League (N)|candidate=Malik Ghulam Qasim Hanjra|votes=83,581|percentage=38.82|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan|candidate=Syed Muhammad Sarwar Shah|votes=11,836|percentage=5.50|change=}}

{{Election box candidate|party=Others|candidate=Others (twenty candidates)|change=|percentage=7.22|votes=15,538}}

{{Election box turnout|votes=221,998|percentage=57.46|change={{decrease}}5.26}}

{{Election box total valid

|votes =215,284

|percentage =96.98

|change =

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{{Election box rejected

|votes =6,714

|percentage =3.02