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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.
A Member of the Provincial Assembly, or MPA is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to the legislature or legislative assembly of a subnational jurisdiction. In Pakistan , the members are elected by the voters in provinces for a term of five years.
The National Assembly is the lower house and has 336 members (according to new census and emerging of FATA) . 266 are elected directly by the people, while 60 seats are reserved for women and 10 seats for religious minorities. The Senate is the upper house and has 104 senators elected indirectly by members of provincial assemblies for six-year ...
The votes of the members of the Senate and National Assembly are counted as single votes. Meanwhile, the votes given by the provincial assembly legislators are adjusted so as to give each province an equal share in the election. This is so because, each provincial assembly has a varying number of members, depending upon population size.
The Members of the National Assembly are elected for a term of 5 years whereas the Members of the Senate are elected for a term of 6 years with staggered elections every 3 years The Parliament of Pakistan – viz the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan – met on 10 August 1947 in the old Sindh Assembly Building at Karachi .
The Senate, the upper house of the Parliament, has equal representation from the federating units balancing the provincial inequality in the National Assembly, where the number of members is based on population of the provinces. The Senate's role is to promote national cohesion and harmony and work as a stabilizing factor of the federation.
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
The language is: "The National Assembly shall be constituted of members chosen by and sent from the several Provincial Assemblies." [ 3 ] This National Assembly appears to have no direct link to any French words, although the concept is the same.