Pakistan’s former prime minister, Imran Khan, won the majority of seats in by-elections, building momentum in his campaign to pressure the six-month-old government into calling an early national vote, Bloomberg said on Monday.
Khan contested seven of eight seats and has won six, according to data from the Election Commission of Pakistan. The Pakistan Peoples Party, a member of the ruling coalition, took the other two seats.
While the former leader will have to resign from all but one of the seats he won -- and elections will happen again -- the sweeping victory on Sunday shows popular support for his political narrative in the nation of more than 220 million. The former cricket star, who was ousted from power through a no-confidence vote in April, has been holding massive rallies across Pakistan to push for early elections.
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