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A person who is a citizen of Pakistan, is enrolled as a voter in any electoral roll under the Electoral Rolls Act 1974 and in case of National/Provincial Assemblies is not less than 25 years of age and in case of Senate not less than 30 years of age, is of good character and is not commonly known as one who violates Islamic injunctions, has ...
After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the Punjab Province was divided and West Punjab was given to the Dominion of Pakistan which became Muslim majority region soon after the partition of India. Nawab Iftikhar Hussain Khan Mamdot became the premier of the province after independence and a ministry was formed by him. His ministry was ...
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 general elections of 1970 are considered one of the fairest and cleanest elections in the history of Pakistan, with about twenty-four political parties taking part. The Awami League, a Bengali nationalist party dominated East Pakistan, while in the West the Pakistan Peoples Party , a leftist and nominally democratic socialist party, was a ...
General elections were held in Pakistan on 24 October 1990 to elect the members of the National Assembly.The elections were primarily a contest between the People's Democratic Alliance (PDA, a four party alliance led by the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) of Benazir Bhutto) and the conservative nine-party alliance, Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) headed by Nawaz Sharif.
This was also the first election in Pakistan in which the party that won the popular vote, the PML-N, failed to win the most seats. The PPP performed strongly in Bhutto's native Sindh and rural Punjab, while the PML-N was strongest in industrial Punjab and the largest cities such as Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi. [9]
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.
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, because the PPP mainly campaigned in Sindh, made the PPP-Qasim Zia campaign weak.