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A member of the National Assembly is called an MNA. The following is a list of the seats allocated by province in the Constitution of Pakistan for the National Assembly. This Table shows constituencies after the 25th Amendment to Constitution of Pakistan. Map of Pakistan showing National Assembly Constituencies as of 2023
Provincial Assembly (Urdu: صوبائی اسمبلی) is a legislative body in the provinces and regions of Pakistan. All of the 4 Provinces and 2 Autonomous regions has unicameral legislature. Only Islamabad is governed directly by the Federal Government of Pakistan and have no legislative body.
The first session of the first Constituent Assembly of Pakistan was held on 10 August 1947 at Sindh Assembly Building, in Karachi.On 11 August 1947, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was elected unanimously as the President of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan and the National Flag was formally approved by the Assembly.
The 336 members of the National Assembly consist of 266 general seats elected by first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies, [137] 60 seats that are reserved for women elected by proportional representation based on the number of general seats won by each party in each province, and ten seats that are reserved for non-Muslims ...
The assembly has seen no party hold an outright majority, hence the PML-N has formed a coalition government with support from the MQM-P, NP, IPP and BAP while the 68-seat Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has declared Confidence and supply to the coalition government. The assembly saw the transfer of the 60 women and minorities reserve seats ...
Each province has a directly elected unicameral legislature (provincial assembly), with members elected for five-year terms. [ 1 ] : 70 Each provincial assembly elects a Chief Minister , who then selects a cabinet of ministers from amongst the members of the Provincial Assembly.
Members to the seats reserved for women and non-Muslims, are elected in accordance with the law through the proportional representation system of political party's lists of candidates on the basis of total number of general seats secured by each political party in the National Assembly or a provincial assembly. The National Assembly has 342 ...
Elections for 270 directly-elected seats in the National Assembly took place on 25 July 2018. The elections for the remaining two directly electable seats were postponed. [ 2 ] As a result of the election, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) became the single largest party, though without an overall majority.