Elections in Mr. Khattack's constituency have now been postponed, said Muhammad Najeeb Khan, director of the provincial election commission.
The only way to avert another one under the same rule, he says, is for the Liberals to win the coming provincial election.
Meanwhile, Mr Bouchard did worse than expected in his provincial election: his party was returned to office, but with fewer votes than its anti-separatist Liberal rivals.
At a provincial election last month Mr Charest managed to win a third term with a narrow majority (having governed with a legislative minority in his second term).
Musharraf won a third term as Pakistan's president earlier this month, taking about 97 percent of votes cast in the national parliament and the four provincial assemblies in an election boycotted by a number of opposition parties.
But part of the Senate is up for re-election by the provincial assemblies early next year.
The turnout was so heavy in some areas that election officials gave provincial governments discretion to keep polls open an hour past the 5 p.m. closing time.
This bout arose ahead of a by-election necessitated by the murder of a leading provincial lawmaker, a member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).
Equally controversially, he also intends to seek re-election from Pakistan's sitting national and provincial assemblies, now in their final year, instead of waiting for new elections to these bodies.
Both Mr. Sharif's PML-N and Mr. Khan's PTI draw much of their support from Punjab, the country's wealthiest province, and the election is particularly hard-fought in Lahore, the provincial capital and the country's second largest city.
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Both Mr. Sharif's PML-N and Mr. Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf draw much of their support from Punjab, the country's wealthiest province, and the election was particularly hard-fought in Lahore, the provincial capital and the country's second largest city.
The 135 regional representatives are selected by the 27 provincial parliaments, and the 65 functional-group representatives by the National Election Commission.
On election night, Mr Binet watches as the Hollande team, huddled in his provincial office in Tulle, fails to get the television to work minutes before the results are announced.
Before the deal with the provincial governors, Argentines were starting to wonder aloud whether Mr Duhalde would survive until the presidential election fixed for September 2003.
The comments came a day after Karzai decreed the presidential and provincial elections should take place in April, instead of the August date determined by the Independent Election Commission.
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At the last election, in 2008, the ANP scooped over a third of the 99 contested seats in the provincial parliament, compared with just 11 for the JUI-F.
Cavite provincial Governor Jonvic Remulla told AP that Mr Bae had left Kawit about a year ago after losing the local election, but returned on Monday following a row with his wife in northern Pampanga province.
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