NA-234 Karachi Korangi-III

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NA-234 Karachi Korangi-III
Constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan
Region	Korangi Town (partly) and Korangi Cantonment (partly) of Korangi District in Karachi
Electorate	314,450
Current constituency
Party	Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
Member(s)	Faheem Khan
Created from	NA-254 Karachi-XVI

NA-234 Karachi Korangi-III (این اے-234، کراچی کورنگی-3) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. The constituency had previously been a stronghold of PTI.^[1][2]

The Pakistan General elections of 2002 were held in Pakistan on 10 October. MQM had a tough election run with competition from the coalition of most religious parties named MMA, however the people of NA-254 showed their support by making Nawab Mirza Advocate of MQM victorious by a significant margin. Mirza got 42888 votes as compared to 16733 of runner-up Syed Zahid Siraj.^[3]

General election were supposed to be held on 8 January 2008 but were postponed due to the death of Benazir Bhutto and the PPPP led violence that followed. Elections were eventually held on 18 February 2008.

Dr. Muhammad Ayoub Shaikh of the MQM succeeded in the election 2008 and became the member of National Assembly. He received 132648 votes while the runner-up, Syed Sohail Abrar of the PPPP, could get only 14302 votes.^[4]

General election 2013 was held on 11 May however the elections of this constituency were delayed after ANP's candidate, Sadiq Zaman Khattak, was killed on May 2, 2013 by unknown militants. The Taliban later accepted responsibility for the attack stating that it was a part of the attacks on the secular parties: ANP, PPPP & MQM.^[5]

The elections were held on 22 August 2013 under heavy security. The voter turnout was low as generally, the enthusiasm to vote is very low in by elections. Some people complained of not being allowed to vote due to errors in the electoral lists.^[6] The election commission announced the results on August 23, 2013 declaring MQM's Muhammad Ali Rashid the winner with 84% of the votes.^[7][8]

General elections were held on 25 July 2018.

General elections were held on 8 February 2024. Muhammad Moin Aamir Pirzada won the election with 72,009 votes.

General election 2024: NA-234 Karachi Korangi-III

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	MQM-P	Muhammad Moin Aamir Pirzada	72,009	41.60	20.67
	Independent	Faheem Khan[a]	44,487	25.70	2.29
	PPP	Muhammad Ali Rashid	18,038	10.42	2.21
	JI	Akhter Hussain Qureshi	13,521	7.81	N/A
	TLP	Abdul Sattar	8,763	5.06	11.76
	PML(N)	Saleem Zia	6,580	3.80	11.01
	Others	Others (fourteen candidates)	9,719	5.61
Turnout			175,071	45.40	9.12
Total valid votes			173,117	98.88
Rejected ballots			1,954	1.12
Majority			27,522	15.90
Registered electors			385,628
	MQM-P gain from PTI

• NA-233 Karachi Korangi-II
• NA-235 Karachi East-I

• Election result's official website

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