KARACHI: Former National Assembly Speaker and Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) leader Dr Fehmida Mirza has been declared winner after a vote recount in NA-230, Badin.
The former speaker garnered 95,064 votes against her rival candidate Haji Rasool Bux Chandio who bagged 93,999 votes. The PPP candidate called for a vote recount due to a narrow margin of his defeat.
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The recount also confirmed the victory of Dr Fehmida Mirza with a margin of over 1000 votes.
Earlier this week, the GDA leader approached the Sindh High Court to stay the recount of votes in NA-230, but here plea was turned down.
Apart from NA-230,Mirza had contested the elections from PS-73, where lost to PPP’s Taj Muhammad Mallah after the vote recount.
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