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Toggle History of elections in Pakistan subsection. ... 175 Candidates from across Punjab contested in these by-elections. 3,131 Polling Stations were created in 20 ...
There were three main candidates in the election, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, Qasim Zia, and Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan.Qasim Zia from the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) was lesser-known, and paired with the fact that the PPP held lesser influence in Punjab, due to the fact that the PPP mainly campaigned in Sindh, made the PPP-Qasim Zia campaign weak.
Provincial Assembly elections were held in Dominion of Pakistan in 1951 [1] to elect all 192 members of the Provincial Assembly of West Punjab along with other provincial election in North-West Frontier Province. It was Pakistan's first provincial assembly election.
Elections must be conducted within 90 days of the dissolution, meaning by or before 14 April 2023. [11] [12] On 22 January 2023, Mohsin Raza Naqvi took oath as the caretaker Chief Minister of Punjab. He was nominated by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) after days of deadlock between the government and the opposition over who to ...
More than 70 parties contested the elections. The main parties were the Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP), Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM), Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam), which was also called the "King's Party" for its unconditional support of the government, and the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), an alliance of six religious political parties.
The remaining two territories of Pakistan, AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan, were ineligible to vote due to their disputed status. The Pakistan Muslim League (N) returned triumphant in this elections, retaining Shehbaz Sharif as Chief Minister of Punjab. They obtained 313 out of 371 total seats, giving them a comfortable 4/5 majority in the assembly.
General elections were held in Punjab on 25 July 2018 to elect the 141 members of the 15th National Assembly from Punjab. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) emerged victorious with 67 seats, followed by the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML(N)) with 64 seats. The PTI also won 16 of 33 reserved seats while the PML(N) won 15.
The elections were held as a result of dismissal of Benazir Bhutto's second government by President Farooq Leghari in November 1996. [1] After which, a caretaker government was inducted in Punjab under Mian muhammad Afzal Hayat , a former member of Punjab Assembly , as the Caretaker Chief Minister.