Pakistan election results: What are the final results of the Pakistan election?
VOTE-RIGGING claims and technical failures have delayed the results of an already controversial Pakistan General Election 2018 - but are all the votes counted yet and what are the final results?
Pakistan: Voters take to streets to celebrate as Khan leads race
Former cricket champion Imran Khan, 65, has declared victory with his Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party, despite only 49 percent of results being officially counted.
In a televised speech, he said: "God has given me a chance to come to power to implement that ideology which I started 22 years ago."
The social crusader called on “all of Pakistan to unite”, pledging to "increase income" and create a welfare state for the nation’s millions of impoverished people.
He added: “I say this in front of you today… we will run Pakistan in a way it has never been run before, deliver the kind of governance never delivered before.”
Opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party, led by the brother of jailed ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has claimed the result is rigged.
Shehbaz Sharif said: "It is a sheer rigging. The way the people's mandate has blatantly been insulted, it is intolerable."
When will the official results be announced?
Some 24 hours after polls closed, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has still to declare a victory for any one candidate or party.
ECP secretary Babar Yaqoob said earlier there was "no conspiracy" in the results, atrributing the delay to a collapse in the computrised tracking system.
But PML-N voters says some of its voters were turfed out of centres by the military, which has been accused of lending its support to Mr Khan.
According to Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper, PTI are leading the provisional results taking 120 seats out of a necessary 137 to win.
Mr Khan's supporters have been out in force on Pakistan's streets celebrating their leader's 'win'.
Jemima Goldsmith added her personal congratulations of her ex-husband’s victory on Twitter.
She wrote: “22 years later, after humiliations, hurdles and sacrifices, my sons’ father is Pakistan’s next PM. It’s an incredible lesson in tenacity, belief & refusal to accept defeat.
"The challenge now is to remember why he entered politics in the 1st place. Congratulations @ImranKhanPTI."
Why is the election so controversial?
The election is historic as it is the second time in Pakistan’s 71-year history a civilian government has been handed power.
Mr Khan has been running on a populist vote to increase standards for millions of impoverished Muslims.
The nation of 208 million people has illiteracy rates in excess of 40 percent.
If Mr Khan fails to secure an outright majority, he may need to form a coalition with a smaller party.
Benazir Bhutto, 29, and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), has also alleged practices of electoral corruption, saying his party received hand-written tallies instead of official notifications.