A. Section 62
B. Section 68
C. Section 74
D. Section 89
Section 62: (7) The Returning Officer while scrutinizing nomination paper of a candidate, shall not ask any question which— (a) has no nexus with the information supplied in the nomination paper; or (b) has not arisen from the objections raised by any person or from information received by him under this section.
Related Mcqs:
- On the application of a candidate or his election agent, the District Election Commissioner or any officer authorized in this behalf by the ECP shall provide to a candidate or an election agent a hard and searchable soft copy on a universal serial bus (USB) in portable document format (PDF) or any other tamper-proof format of the final electoral roll with photographs of the voters and shall ensure that the copy is the same as provided to the Returning Officer and Presiding Officers.
A. Section 87
B. Section 134
C. Section 37
D. Section 79 - A person may be nominated in the nomination papers in same constituency by not more than______ nomination papers.
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 5 - Under which section of the act, returning officers (ROs) and district returning officers (DROs) will only be able to punish individuals for impersonation?
A. Section 135
B. Section 170
C. Section 169
D. Section 137 - If the victory margin between the returned candidate and runner-up candidate is less than 5% of the total votes polled or 10,000 votes, whichever is less, the Returning Officer shall recount all the votes on the request of a contesting candidate before commencement of the consolidation of the results.
A. Section 78
B. Section 95
C. Section 45
D. Section 89 - ____________ means a person appointed under this Act to hear and dispose of claims and objections and applications for corrections relating to the electoral rolls:
A. Presiding Officer
B. Registration Officer
C. Revising Authority
D. None of these - A ballot paper shall not be issued to a voter if in case:
A. He refuses to produce CNIC
B. He refuses to produce thumb impression on counterfoil
C. He refuses to receive personal mark with indelible ink
D. All the above - All election-related documents including Statements of Count and Ballot Paper Accounts, except the ballot papers, shall be public documents and may be inspected or copies thereof obtained.
A. Section 100
B. Section 108
C. Section 198
D. Section 170 - An election official shall, before the commencement of his election duty, make an oath, in such form and manner as may be prescribed, that he shall act strictly in accordance with the provisions of the Elections Act, 2017, Rules and directions of the ECP.
A. Section 56
B. Section 35
C. Section 98
D. Section 67 - The office-bearers of a political party at the federal, provincial and local levels shall be elected periodically provided that a period, not exceeding five years, shall intervene between any two elections.
A. Section 178
B. Section 208
C. Section 238
D. Section 108 - In case of equality of votes between two candidates, both will be declared returned candidates and each shall become Member for half of the term of the Assembly. The candidate who will be Member for the first half of the term will be determined by draw of lots. In case of equality of votes between three or more candidates, there shall be re-election in the constituency.
A. Section 97
B. Section 131
C. Section 79
D. Section 189
