Brother Harris asked a question in the thread of By-Election in NA-123 that what are the stats of NA-123 regarding total population, no. of registered votes, etc.
This led me to open this thread that we normally pay attention to who has won the seat and what was his margin. But I think we don't pay attention that does the winner really represent the people of his respective constituency? For example in the most recent case of NA-123 the no. of registered voters exceed 200,000 but how many votes Parvez Malik could grab? I think around 45000. Hamid Miraj got 9945, Hafiz Sahib got 3000 around. So the total will reach approximately to 70000. Now if we talk of merit, does it show from any angle that Mr. Parvez Malik represent this constituency? Certainly NOT. But the fault lies also with the people living in NA-123. Why the people did not come to cast their votes? Why they don't realized that these elections are held in fact on their own expenses, from the tax money which they pay directly or indirectly.
I must say that it should be a rule of law that if the no. of votes polled are less than 80% of the total no. of registered votes, the elections will be canceled. Re-Election cost should be taken from the people of that constituency. This process should be repeated until it meets the minimum limit of 80%. Anyhow the general public may report for anyone who did not poll his vote while he was registered. This will help to get the actual representation and we may see some positive improvements.
Your view point is awaited.
