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Former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday won NA-45 Kurram by-polls as per unofficial and unconfirmed results.
According to unofficial and unconfirmed results, the former premier polled 20,881 votes while his opponent of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) candidate Jamil Khan secured 12,535 votes.
The Kurram by-election was originally postponed from Oct 16 due to the law-and-order situation in the constituency.
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There are 16 candidates, including Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan, Jamil Khan of Jamiat Ulema e Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) and Sher Muhammad Khan of Jamaat Islami (JI) who contested the elections.
There are 198,618 registered voters — 111,349 men and 87,269 women — in the constituency, according to the spokesman of the Election Commission Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).