Provincial elections were held in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's constituencies belonging to areas previously known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on 20 July 2019. After the election, the new members joined the already elected members from the rest of the province to complete the formation of 11th Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Background On 31 May 2018, the former president of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain signed the landmark Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan which was already passed by the National Assembly of Pakistan and Senate of Pakistan earlier that year. The amendment called for the integration of FATA into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It also outlined that provincial elections will be held in areas of former FATA within one year of 2018 Pakistani general election. To fulfill that requirement, the new president of Pakistan Arif Alvi directed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in late 2018 to conduct the elections in May 2019. ECP started the work to delimit the constituencies. During the delimitation exercise, sixteen new constituencies were created to elect the members on general seats and four reserved seats for women and one for Non-Muslims.
On 6 May 2019, it was announced that the election will be held on 20 July 2019.
285 candidates of different parties including two women candidates ran for elections out of which 202 were Independent candidates. Over 2.1 million voters used their right to vote for the first ever provincial elections.
A total 1896 polling stations were created across the tribal districts out of which 450 polling stations have been declared sensitive.
Polling started in morning 8 till evening 5 without any break.
Results According to official Results Independents won 6 seats, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf won 5 seats, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam F won 3 seats, Jamat-e-Islami and Awami National Party won 1 seats each.
Results by district DivisionDistrictSeatsPTIJUI(F)JIANPBAPINDEx-FATABajaur3 201000Mohmand2000 1 10Khyber31000 20Kurram21 10000Orakzai1 100000North Waziristan210000 1South Waziristan21 10000Ex-Frontier Regions10 10000Total16731131
Result by constituency DistrictConstituencyWinnerRunner UpMarginTurnout %No.NameCandidatePartyVotes%CandidatePartyVotes%BajaurPK-100Bajaur-IAnwar Zeb KhanPTI12,99525.35Wahid GulJI11,83623.091,15933.47PK-101Bajaur-IIAjmal KhanPTI12,20426.18Sahibzada Haroon ur RasheedJI10,51422.551,69029.46PK-102Bajaur-IIISirajuddin KhanJI19,14428.75Hamid ur RehmanPTI13,51720.925,62731.30MohmandPK-103Mohmand-INisar MohmandANP11,25828.61Rahim ShahPTI9,68724.621,57136.28PK-104Mohmand-IIMalik Abbas RehmanIND11,76324.72Muhammad ArifJUI(F)9,80820.611,95528.29KhyberPK-105Khyber-IShafiq Sher AfridiIND19,74743.88Shermat KhanIND10,74823.888,99927.42PK-106Khyber-IIBilawal AfridiIND12,85537.35Khan Shahid AfridiIND6,30418.326,55123.51PK-107Khyber-IIIMuhammad Shafiq AfridiIND9,79626.15Hameed Ullah Jan AfridiIND8,47322.621,32317.53KurramPK-108Kurram-IMuhammad Riaz ShaheenJUI(F)11,84026.88Jamil KhanIND11,34225.7549826.60PK-109Kurram-IIIqbal MianPTI39,71653.32Inayat AliIND23,03030.9216,68640.28OrakzaiPK-110OrakzaiSyed Ghazi Ghazan JamalIND18,46139.17Muhammad ArifPTI15,05731.943,40424.24North WaziristanPK-111North Waziristan-IMuhammad Iqbal WazirPTI10,20027.71Sami UddinJUI(F)9,28825.2391226.26PK-112North Waziristan-IIMir Kalam WazirIND12,06133.41Sadiq UllahJUI(F)7,98222.114,07920.31South WaziristanPK-113South Waziristan-IIsam-ud-DinJUI(F)9,71228.39Waheed KhanIND9,68828.322416.15PK-114South Waziristan-IINaseerullah WazirPTI11,11429.81Muhammad ArifIND10,27227.5584222.65Ex-Frontier RegionsPK-115Frontier RegionsMuhammad ShoaibJUI(F)18,10239.11Abid Ur RehmanPTI18,02838.957424.69 Members elected on reserved seats
Reserved SeatsParty Member For Women Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Anita Mehsud Aysha Bibi Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal Naeema Kishwar Balochistan Awami Party Baserat Khan For Non-Muslims Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Wilson Wazir
Aftermath After the elections, five out of the six independents joined political parties. Three joined the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) and two joined the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
Following this, PTI was declared to have secured two of the four reserved seats for women and the one reserved for minorities. Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) (JUI-F) and BAP each secured one reserved seat for women.
Newly elected members took oath on 27 August 2019.
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