Margalla Enclave Ballot Odds — the Honest Arithmetic
What are your chances? Mostly a list of what DHA has never published — plus the one hard inventory number that does exist, and where the famous “10%” actually came from.
The 3rd balloting has been held — 15 September 2026. Applications shut on 4 September 2026. Check your result on DHA’s Launch III result search with your CNIC and application number. Successful applicants pay the lump sum or the 20% down within 30 days of the ballot (15 October 2026 by our count; 12 October on the 2-year plan) — confirm on 051-111-555-400, ext 1307. How to check your result
Buying or selling a balloted plot? For sale and purchase of Margalla Enclave plots and allotments, contact Muhammad Hasnain — Call 0300 0399322 / WhatsApp. Balloted plot khareedna ya bechna ho to Hasnain se rabta karein.
Short answer: 6,990 residential plots exist in the whole project. DHA has never said how many are in this ballot. Where the '10%' figure really comes from.
Direct line: Muhammad Hasnain, plot specialist for Bahria Enclave & DHA Margalla Enclave — WhatsApp 0300 0399322. Verified before you pay; drawbacks in writing.
The honest answer to “what are my chances” is that DHA has never published the two numbers you would need. Not for this ballot, not for the last one. What follows is everything that is knowable, sourced, and separated carefully into fact and inference — because the percentage you have probably seen quoted is neither.
The one hard number: how many plots exist at all
Margalla Enclave’s environmental impact assessment, filed with Pak-EPA, contains the project’s own plot schedule. This is the ceiling on everything — every ballot that has been held and every ballot still to come draws from it.
| Category | Plots in the whole project |
|---|---|
| Residential — 25′×45′ (≈125 sq yd) | 1,709 |
| Residential — 35′×65′ (≈250 sq yd) | 2,634 |
| Residential — 50′×90′ (≈500 sq yd) | 2,647 |
| Residential, all sizes | 6,990 |
| Apartment plots (4 sizes) | 128 |
| Commercial — DHA’s printed total | 389 |
| Grand total, as printed | 7,507 |
Pak-EPA environmental impact assessment for Margalla Enclave, Table 3.1 — read directly from the filed PDF on environment.gov.pk, twice (1 and 2 September 2026).
DHA’s own filed document does not add up. The ten commercial sub-categories in that table sum to 388; adding the two petrol pumps, the hotel plot and the mega-mall plot gives 392. The table’s own printed commercial total says 389, and the grand total of 7,507 only works if you accept 389. We print DHA’s figures as DHA printed them and flag the gap rather than quietly correcting a government filing.
The two numbers nobody has
- How many plots are on offer in this ballot. Not on the portal, not in the form, not in the FAQ, not in any notice. Two ballots have already been drawn — February 2025 and November 2025 — and no running “plots remaining” count has ever been published.
- How many valid applications were received. Published once, for the first ballot only, and even then disputed.
What was reported, and where the famous “10%” comes from
- First ballot (closed 14 February 2025, drawn 24 February 2025): ProPakistani and The News both reported approximately 47,000 applications. Neither gave a plots-offered figure.
- The competing figure: a dealer site says “reportedly nearly 50,000” applications against “nearly 5,000” plots, and divides one by the other to reach “not more than 10%”. Its own word is reportedly. Both inputs are unsourced, and the 10% figure that now circulates through this niche — and gets repeated back by AI answers — is one dealer’s arithmetic on two guesses about a ballot that closed eighteen months ago.
- Second ballot (closed 10 November 2025 after a one-week extension, drawn 20 November 2025 at the Jinnah Convention Centre): the application count has never been published at all. Nobody in this market seems to have noticed the silence.
- Third ballot: open as this is written. No plots-offered figure, no application count.
47,000 and 50,000 are both in circulation and neither is DHA’s own count. We print both and pick neither.
What can honestly be said about your odds
One directional statement is safe, and it is worth knowing. The 5 Marla pool is the smallest in the entire project — 1,709 plots against 2,647 at 1 Kanal — while the 5 Marla entry price is by far the lowest, which is exactly the size a mass-market ballot draws most applications for. Fewer plots, more applicants: in relative terms the 5 Marla ballot is the hardest one to win and the 1 Kanal ballot the easiest. That is an inference from two solid facts, not a DHA statistic, and we label it as such.
Anything more precise would be invention. If a percentage matters to your decision, the correct move is not to find a better guess — it is to notice that the resale file market lets you buy a certainty instead of a lottery ticket, at a premium you can see in advance.
When the draw was held
DHA drew the third ballot on 15 September 2026. Its two earlier rounds ran to an unusually tidy rhythm:
- First ballot: closed 14 February 2025, drawn 24 February 2025 — 10 days.
- Second ballot: closed 10 November 2025, drawn 20 November 2025 — 10 days.
The third closed on 4 September and was drawn on 15 September — eleven days. If your name came out, the 30-day payment clock is running; if you want to sell or buy a balloted plot, talk to Hasnain on 0300 0399322 first. Our balloting-result page tracks DHA’s own result page and checker in fifteen-minute intervals and says plainly whether anything has actually been published yet.
The questions behind the question
Nobody can tell you honestly, because DHA has never published how many plots are on offer in any ballot or how many applications it received for the second and third. The widely-quoted 'about 10%' comes from one dealer site dividing an unsourced 50,000 applications by an unsourced 5,000 plots for the FIRST ballot, in February 2025. The hard ceiling that does exist: the whole project contains 6,990 residential plots and 389 commercial ones across every ballot ever, per DHA's own environmental filing.
By inventory, 1 Kanal. The project contains 2,647 plots of 500 sq yd against just 1,709 of 125 sq yd, and the 5 Marla size carries the lowest entry price, which is the size a mass-market ballot always draws most applications for. Fewer plots and more applicants means the 5 Marla ballot is relatively the hardest to win. That is our inference from the inventory table, not a DHA statistic.
DHA places no restriction on the number of applications one person may submit, and each application needs its own form and its own non-refundable processing fee. Whether that improves your odds depends on numbers DHA has not published. What is certain is the cost: three 5 Marla applications is PKR 30,000 that does not come back, and three wins would be three separate 20% down payments falling due in the same 30 days.
On 15 September 2026, eleven days after the 4 September close - in line with DHA's ten-day precedent from the first two rounds (14 to 24 February 2025, and 10 to 20 November 2025). Check your own result by CNIC/NICOP and application number on DHA's checker; DHA's public result page was still offline on 2 October 2026. Our balloting-result page reports the live status of DHA's pages every fifteen minutes.
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