HARIPUR: The ruling PML-N won the by-election for a National Assembly seat held here on Sunday.

According to unofficial results of 316 polling stations out of the total 513, the PML-N candidate from the NA-19 Haripur constituency Baber Nawaz polled 89,209 votes and his opponent Raja Aamir Zaman of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf bagged 63,127.

Mr Nawaz was leading by over 25,000 votes as counting of ballots was continuing at remaining polling stations till late night.

Published in Dawn, August 17th, 2015

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