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Islamabad capital territory 3 4 1 2 6 25 7 50 5 27 28 30 26 47 49 32 31 33 8 35 24 29 34 23 37 36 48 40 39 38 41 22 42 21 9 45 44 43 19 18 20 10 17 46 16 15 11 14 12 13 12 At least one Union Council is not a territorial unity as provided in the law passed by the Parliament, but later amended by the October 15 Ordinance. The UC No. 12 in Rawat is divided into wards that are not adjoining. As the image below shows, UC-12 Rawat falls on either side of UC-13 Humak, with no “territorial unity” to qualify as one union council under the criteria set by the ICT LG Act, which was originally passed by the Parliament. REGISTERED VOTERS - ICT GENERAL ELECTION 2013 339,774 288,880 628,654 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTION 2015 366,671 309,947 676,618 PERCENTAGE CHANGE 7.9% 7.3% 7.6% MALE FEMALE TOTAL 164 www.fafen.org LOCAL GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE TOTAL UNION COUNCILS: 50 Total Members: 13 Chairman/ Vice Chairman 1 Worker/Peasant 1 Women Member 2 Minority Member 1 Youth Member 1 General Seat 6 UNION COUNCIL W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 PASSAGE & AMENDMENT OF LEGAL FRAMEWORK BEFORE ELECTION Original Act: Islamabad Capital Territory Local Government Act, 2014 (29-07-2015) www.fafen.org 165 Table shows the Union Councils in descending order by registered voters. DELIMITATION DISCREPANCIES Union Union Council Male Female Total In pursuance of Section 7 of the ICTLGA 2015 Council No. Name Voters Voters Voters amended by Islamabad Capital Territory Local 21 Sohan Dehati 14,070 8,690 22,760 Government (Amendment) Ordinance 2015, ECP 20 Alipur 12,417 10,088 22,505 delimited Islamabad Capital Territory into 50 Union 23 Kuri 10,688 8,896 19,584 Councils. The number was 79 when the delimitation 34 G-9/1, 3 & 4 10,123 9,434 19,557 was conducted before the approval of the local 40 I-8 8,223 10,030 18,253 government law by the Parliament. However, the 45 Jhangi Syedan 10,254 7,829 18,083 existing delimitation appears to be in complete 29 F-10 & F-11 9,133 8,881 18,014 violation of the delimitation provisions as provided in Kot Hathial 4 8,494 9,021 17,515 the law, which was later amended through the (North) ordinance to introduce uniformity in the population of Maira Sumbal 39 9,583 7,837 17,420 Jaffar wards as far as possible as against “uniformity of 30 G-7/3 & 4 9,223 7,638 16,861 population in a Union Council in the law passed by the 18 Khana Dak 9,328 6,918 16,246 Parliament”. According to ECP Notification 48 Sarai Kharboza 9,158 6,861 16,019 No.F.5(1)/2015-LGE (ICT issued on August 28, 2015, 31 G-7/1 & 2 8,681 7,114 15,795 the final notification for delimitation of constituencies 15 Loi Bher 8,167 7,464 15,631 was to be issued on October 13, 2015. The Ordinance Kot Hathial was issued to amend the provisions for the 5 8,571 7,031 15,602 (South) delimitation approved by the Parliament ex-post facto F-7, F-8 & Jinnah 28 8,098 7,381 15,479 Park F-9 on October 15, 2015, apparently to provide legal cover 13 Humak 8,268 7,160 15,428 to the discrepancies in the delimitation of Union 38 G-11/1, 2, 3 & 4 7,932 7,296 15,228 Councils that were in violation of the law passed by 19 Tarlai Kalan 8,380 6,784 15,164 the Parliament. 12 Rawat 8,903 5,781 14,684 Consequently, the Union Councils in Islamabad now 9 Charah 7,775 6,870 14,645 do not have uniformity of population. The smallest 2 Noorpur Shahan 7,914 6,403 14,317 Union Council in Bokra has only 4,709 voters and the I-10/1 & I-10/4 42 7,238 6,876 14,114 largest in Sohan Dehati has 22,760 voters. This defies (Partly) the spirit of equal suffrage which requires that almost 35 G-9/2 7,590 6,410 14,000 similar number of people should elect one 10 Kirpa 7,281 6,281 13,562 representative in different electoral constituencies. 47 Tarnol 8,040 5,464 13,504 Pakistani law and international best practices also I-10/2, 3 & 4 43 7,088 6,393 13,481 (Partly) & H-10 prescribe that the delimitation of constituencies on 6 Phulgran 6,955 5,874 12,829 any level should be done on the basis of equal 33 G-8/1 & 2 6,757 5,846 12,603 population, as far as possible. In ICT, however, there 27 G-6/2-3 & 4 6,493 5,950 12,443 are variations as huge as 480% between populations 22 Chak Shahzad 7,548 4,810 12,358 of different union councils. The representative voter 41 I-9 6,494 5,786 12,280 ratio in Bokra will be 1:363 and Sohan Dehati 1:1,750. 50 Golra Sharif 6,349 5,919 12,268 A detailed analysis of Union Council by voter 26 G-6/1 6,493 5,673 12,166 population only provides the scale of massive 36 G-10/3 & 4 6,284 5,640 11,924 discrepancies, which need to be fixed for any future 25 F-6 6,191 5,543 11,734 election. 17 Koral 6,354 4,910 11,264 7 Pind Begowal 5,667 4,887 10,554 VARIATION IN UCs POPULATION 11 Mughal 5,197 4,657 9,854 19 UCs 8 Tumair 5,387 4,457 9,844 17 UCs 14 Sihala 5,058 4,432 9,490 3 Malpur 4,917 4,341 9,258 11 UCs 49 Shah Allah Dita 4,729 4,135 8,864 1 Saidpur 4,627 4,114 8,741 16 Pagh Panwal 4,679 3,872 8,551 2 UCs 46 Bhadana Kalan 4,722 3,794 8,516 1 UC Rawal Town & 24 4,463 3,864 8,327 Margala Town Less than 5,001 to 10,001 to 15,001 to Above 37 G-10/1 & 2 4,358 3,855 8,213 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 20,000 32 G-8/3 & 4 3,509 2,868 6,377 166 www.fafen.org PRE-ELECTION ISSUES The campaign period for local government election was regards to the newly drafted local government system. generally peaceful and well-managed, which was reflected Observers also had problems in obtaining required in FAFEN's pre-election observation. Election documents from DRO and RO in order to make detailed stakeholders' interviews revealed little in terms of pre- pre-election observation on nomination, scrutiny and election issues in the district. Candidates' interviews complaint handling processes. revealed that no guidance was available from the ECP with ELECTION DAY ISSUES Election Day issues highlighted in Islamabad followed Although the election was being managed directly by the quite a similar pattern with polling day issues seen ECP secretariat in Islamabad, illegal campaigning, across other regions where local government election canvassing and persuasion was still widespread on were held in 2015. Of the 2,463 issues reported from Election Day, as 335 incidents were reported by FAFEN polling stations spread across 5 union councils of the observers in this regard. Party or candidate camps were district, nearly one-fifth (481) were related to present within 200-yards perimeter of the polling irregularities in ballot processing. These included APOs stations, party workers present outside polling stations not filling the counterfoils with voters' information, not openly canvassed and influenced voters. Similarly, stamping and/or signing the back of ballots and campaign material was seen to be displayed inside the counterfoils before issuing ballots. polling premises or on its boundary walls in several cases. There were seven incidents where armed civilians Voter identification was also not carried in legally were reported to be present inside the party camps stipulated manner at 396 polling stations. The details of established around polling stations. such incidents included polling officer not matching voter's information on CNIC with voters' list or not crossing it on the voters' list once it has been cross- matched. Some polling officers did not check voters' fingers for an already present mark of indelible ink or did not mark voters' fingers with indelible ink before forwarding them to APO. 481 396 335 211 173 156 156 97 105 82 67 38 39 37 31 20 23 4 4 6 2 y es ed ed x ecy wa ocess ocess ed by ECP olling Staff urned A oters Misc. Issues ent Counting assing eak oting Pr olling Officials ocess each of Secr Pr e-V oter Identification tisan P Electoral Violence Canv Br oters T and W omen V Pr aulty Ballot Pr ersons Inside PS olling Staff-Counting F Par W olling Station Security P P aulty Counting of Ballot esence of Unauthoriz Illegal Campaigning and aulty V F PS not Monitor F Pr Untrained P Non-transpar omen V Closing Time not Honour ailability of Critical Material tisan P Insufficient Arrangement for W v Non-facilitation to Disabeled Consolidation of Ballot Bo A Par www.fafen.org 167.