NA-34 (Lower Dir) (Urdu: این اے-۳۴، لور دیر) was a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. It was split into NA-6 (Lower Dir-I) and NA-7 (Lower Dir-II) in 2018.[1]

NA-34 (Lower Dir)
Former constituency
for the National Assembly of Pakistan
RegionLower Dir District
Former constituency
Created1977
Abolished2018
Replaced byNA-6 (Lower Dir-I)
NA-7 (Lower Dir-II)

Members of Parliament

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1970—1977 NW-15 Chitral-cum-Dir

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Election Member Party
1970 Jafir Ali Shah PML(Qayyum)

1977—1988: NA-25 Malakand-cum-Dir

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Election Member Party
1977 Gauhar Rehman PNA
1985 Maulana Muhammad Inayat-ur-Rehman Independent

1988—2002: NA-25 Dir

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Election Member Party
1988 Sahibzada Fathullah IJI
1990 Najmuddin Khan PDA
1993 Sahibzada Fathullah PIF
1997 Inayat Khan PML(N)

Since 2002: NA-34 Lower Dir

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Election Member Party
2002 Qazi Hussain Ahmad MMA
2008 Malak Azmat Khan PPPP
2013 Sahibzada Muhammad Yaqoob JI

Elections since 2002

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2002 General Election

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2002 General Election: NA-34 (Lower Dir) [2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
  MMA Qazi Hussain Ahmad 53,799 59.33
  ANP Muhammad Ayub Khan 34,078 37.58
  PTI Muhammad Bashir Khan 1,136 1.25
  PML-Q Sardar Abul Hakeem Tajak Advocate 1,123 1.24
Independent Aurangzeb Khan 313 0.35
  PML-N Muhammad Rashid Khan Advocate 224 0.25
Majority 19,721 21.75
Turnout 90,673 28.28
MMA gain from Independent

A total of 2,072 votes were rejected.

2003 By-election

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Qazi Hussain Ahmad won the general election in 2002 but he decided to take up the seat that he won in his native constituency, and thus vacated the seat. Therefore, in January 2003 bye-elections were held.[3] The results are shown in the following table.

2003 By-election: NA-34 (Lower Dir) [4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
  MMA Abdul Ghafoor Ghawas 45,815 59.48 +0.15
  PPP (S) Ahmad Hassan Khan 29,581 38.40
  PPP Aurangzeb Khan 1,632 2.12
Majority 16,234 21.08
MMA hold Swing

2008 General Election

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2008 General Election: NA-34 (Lower Dir) [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
  PPP Malak Azmat Khan 38,068 48.34
  ANP Muhammad Ayoub Khan 24,480 31.09 −6.49
  MMA Qazi Fazal Ullah 11,449 14.54 −44.79
  PML Javed Iqbal 3,366 4.27
Independent Shamsul Qamar Khan 761 0.97
Independent Dr Bahramand Khan 625 0.79
Majority 13,588 17.25
Turnout 78,749 24.20 −4.08
PPP gain from MMA

A total of 2,746 votes were rejected.

2013 General Election

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2013 General Election: NA-34 (Lower Dir) [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
  JI Sahibzada Muhammad Yaqoob 49,475 33.13
  PTI Muhammad Bashir Khan 45,066 30.18
  JUI-F Fazlullah 22,552 15.10
  ANP Muhammad Azam Khan 8,959 6.00 −25.09
Tehreek-e-Pasmanada Awam Pakistan Haji Muhammad Umar 7,206 4.83
  PPP Malak Azmat Khan 6,275 4.20 −44.14
  PML-N Farid Khan Yousafzai 5,818 3.90
Independent Alam Khan 2,218 1.49
TTP Rahimullah Khan 810 0.54
Independent Mst Nasrat Begum 187 0.13
Independent Malak Rahmatullah 185 0.12
Independent Syed Nasar Shah 181 0.12
Independent Hayatullah Khan Sadat 163 0.11
APML Shafiur Rahman 159 0.10
MDM Abdul Hanan 77 0.05
Majority 4,409 2.95
Turnout 149,331 30.15 +5.95
JI gain from PPP

A total of 5,364 votes were rejected.

References

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  1. ^ Final List of National Assembly Constituencies (PDF). Election Commission of Pakistan. 2018. p. 2.
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2018-05-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ Asghar, Raja (16 January 2003). "PML-Q, MMA leading in polls: PPP boycotts on most seats; five killed in Sindh violence". dawn.com.
  4. ^ http://archives.dawn.com/2003/01/16/top1.htm PML-Q, MMA leading in polls: PPP boycotts on most seats; five killed in Sindh violence
  5. ^ a b http://test1947.ecp.gov.pk/ConstResult.aspx?Const_Id=NA-34&type=NA [dead link]
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