The four Sharif family members of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party have finally managed to win their National Assembly seats from their stronghold Lahore, the capital of Punjab province, in the just-concluded general elections, the results of which were declared on Friday.

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) took over 20 hours after the polls to announce the results of their constituencies.

The Sharif family, which appeared despondent seeing the unfavourable results on Thursday night, felt buoyant when the ECP announced their victory in Lahore’s four constituencies in which candidates supported by jailed prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party were leading by a big margin.

The 2024 polls have become controversial because of the ECP’s conduct in delaying the polls and detaining the Returning Officers by the security agencies on Thursday midnight. PML-N supremo and former premier Nawaz Sharif, 74, won from NA-130 by securing over 172,000 votes against PTI’s Dr Yasmin Rashid who got over 113,000.

Nawaz’s daughter Maryam Nawaz, 50, won from NA-119 securing over 83,000 votes against PTI Farooq Shahzad who bagged over 68,000.

Nawaz’s nephew Hamza Shehbaz, 49, won from NA-118 by securing over 105,000 votes against PTI’s Aliya Hamza who bagged over 100,000.