Pakistan election results: Pakistan vote count close amid rigging ...

To those who are just joining us, welcome to the BBC's live coverage of the Pakistan election results - which are looking like they may not be the foregone conclusion analysts initially expected.

Officially, Nawaz Sharif's PML-N party currently has the lead, with 17 out of the 51 seats officially announced by Pakistan's electoral commission. Analysts had tipped him as the winner as it appeared he had received the backing of Pakistan's powerful military.

But just behind that, on 14 seats, are independents backed by Imran Khan's PTI party.

This is despite the numerous hurdles in the party's way - including the fact their leader (and Pakistan's last elected prime minister) is behind bars and many of their candidates were pushed underground. You can read more about that in our Pakistan correspondent's story from the weekend here.

But back to today: there are questions surrounding why the results are trickling in at such a slow pace.

There are suspicions that it may be because the result has not gone the way the military wanted, according to Paris-based freelance journalist Taha Siddiqui.

But the electoral commission's spokesperson Nighat Siddiq has assured the BBC that “results will come pouring in soon”, saying they simply had "to ensure that we leave no space for error".

We are still waiting for that flood of results. With just a quarter of seats officially declared, nothing is certain yet.