According to the results received from all polling stations, Shehbaz Sharif secured victory in NA-123 seat by garnering 63,953 votes while Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed independent candidate Afzal Azeem received 48,486 votes.
As many as 15 people have been killed and over 30 injured on Wednesday in an explosion outside the election office of an independent candidate in Balochistan's Pishin, Geo News reported.
Pakistan's former federal minister, Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan, announced that he will contest the upcoming general elections as an independent candidate, saying that the country's dignity has been lost due to political leaders and rulers, The Express Tribune reported on Saturday.
Rajasthan Minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas on Friday said that a neck-to-neck competition is happening between his party Congress and BJP in the state adding that independent candidates will play a crucial role if both parties get anywhere near 90-100 seats in a 200-member Assembly.
Rajasthan Minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas on Sunday said that every party tries to get in touch with independent candidates who have a high probability of winning elections adding that communications will be established with them if a neck-to-neck fight arises in the upcoming election
Naveen Yadav pledged his support to Jublihills Congress candidate Mohammed Azharuddin and said that he would work for the former Cricketer's win in the elections.
A booth agent of an independent candidate and a polling agent of a BJP were allegedly killed in two separate violence-related incidents during voting for single-phase panchayat elections in West bengal on Saturday.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) was reduced to zero seats in both Jhansi and Shahjahanpur Municipal Corporations while people preferred independent candidates to that of SP, BSP and the Congress Party on many seats.
An independent candidate from Karnataka's Yadgir constituency paid his deposit money of Rs 10,000 entirely in coins to file nominations for the elections. He collected money from people across the constituency, to contest the Karnataka elections on May 10.
The United Democratic Front (UDF) won 12 seats, National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won 2 seats and independent candidates won 4 seats in the bypolls held on Tuesday.
The vote counting trends of the Election Commission of India show that the Bharatiya Janata Party's rebels are leading in their respective constituencies as Independent candidates.
The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued notices to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and the State Election Commission (SEC) on a plea moved by Aapki Apni Party (Peoples). The petitioner has moved the court as the party's name is not mentioned in the list for MCD polls and the candidates