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/>All 342 seats in the <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_of_Pakistan" title="National Assembly of Pakistan">National Assembly</a> 172 seats needed for a majority</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Turnout</th><td class="infobox-data">55.02%<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>(<img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" />10.68<a href="/wiki/Percentage_point" title="Percentage point">pp</a>)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="background:transparent; color: inherit; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr class="sr-only"> <th style="text-align:left;">  </th> <th style="text-align:center">First party </th> <th style="text-align:center">Second party </th> <th style="text-align:center">Third party </th></tr> <tr> <td>  </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #228b22;"><a href="/wiki/File:PrimeMinisterNawazSharif.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/PrimeMinisterNawazSharif.jpg/103px-PrimeMinisterNawazSharif.jpg" decoding="async" width="103" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/PrimeMinisterNawazSharif.jpg/154px-PrimeMinisterNawazSharif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/PrimeMinisterNawazSharif.jpg/206px-PrimeMinisterNawazSharif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="570" data-file-height="720" /></a> </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #000;"><a href="/wiki/File:Naoto_Kan_and_Asif_Ali_Zardari_at_a_bilateral_meeting_20110222_(1)_(cropped).jpg" 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Imran_Khan_2012.jpg/188px-Imran_Khan_2012.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1815" data-file-height="2511" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Nawaz_Sharif" title="Nawaz Sharif">Nawaz Sharif</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Asif_Ali_Zardari" title="Asif Ali Zardari">Asif Ali Zardari</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Imran_Khan" title="Imran Khan">Imran Khan</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="width:75px;text-align:left">Party </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">PML(N)</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">PPP</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">PTI</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Last election </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">89 seats </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">118 seats </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"> Boycotted </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats won </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">166 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">42 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">35 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seat change </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> 77 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> 76 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">New </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Popular vote </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">14,874,104 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">6,911,218 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">7,679,954 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Percentage </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">32.77% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">15.23% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">16.92% </td></tr> <tr> <th 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> 15.47<a href="/wiki/Percentage_point" title="Percentage point">pp</a><a href="#cite_note-National_Assembly_database-2">[2]</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">New </td></tr> </tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr /><a href="/wiki/File:Pakistan_General_election_2013.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Pakistan_General_election_2013.png/300px-Pakistan_General_election_2013.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="244" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Pakistan_General_election_2013.png/450px-Pakistan_General_election_2013.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Pakistan_General_election_2013.png/600px-Pakistan_General_election_2013.png 2x" data-file-width="3527" 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class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/State_emblem_of_Pakistan.svg/188px-State_emblem_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/State_emblem_of_Pakistan.svg/250px-State_emblem_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="587" /></a></th></tr><tr><th style="border-bottom: #aaa 1px solid"></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:rgb(220,245,220);padding-left:0.4em;text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Federalism_in_Pakistan" title="Federalism in Pakistan">Federalism</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="padding-top:0;text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Pakistan" title="Government of Pakistan">Federal government</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_provincial_governments_of_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="List of provincial governments of Pakistan">Provincial governments</a>: <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Punjab,_Pakistan" title="Government of Punjab, Pakistan">Punjab</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Sindh" title="Government of Sindh">Sindh</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">KPK</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Balochistan,_Pakistan" title="Government of Balochistan, Pakistan">Balochistan</a></li></ul></div></li> <li><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_Pakistani_governors" class="mw-redirect" title="List of current Pakistani governors">Governors</a>: <a href="/wiki/Sardar_Saleem_Haider_Khan" title="Sardar Saleem Haider Khan"> Sardar Saleem Haider</a>(<a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Punjab,_Pakistan" title="Governor of Punjab, Pakistan">Punjab</a>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Kamran_Tessori" title="Kamran Tessori">Kamran Tessori</a>(<a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Sindh" title="Governor of Sindh">Sindh</a>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Faisal_Karim_Kundi" title="Faisal Karim Kundi">Faisal Karim Kundi</a>(<a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">KPK</a>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Sheikh_Jaffar_Khan_Mandokhail" title="Sheikh Jaffar Khan Mandokhail"> Sheikh Jaffar Khan</a>(<a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Balochistan,_Pakistan" title="Governor of Balochistan, Pakistan">Balochistan</a>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Syed_Mehdi_Shah" title="Syed Mehdi Shah">Syed Mehdi Shah</a>(<a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Gilgit-Baltistan" title="Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan">Gilgit-Baltistan</a>)</li></ul></div></li> <li><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chief_Minister_(Pakistan)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Minister (Pakistan)">Chief Ministers</a>: <a href="/wiki/Maryam_Nawaz" title="Maryam Nawaz">Maryam Nawaz</a>(<a href="/wiki/Chief_Minister_of_Punjab_(Pakistan)" title="Chief Minister of Punjab (Pakistan)">Punjab</a>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Murad_Ali_Shah" title="Murad Ali Shah">Murad Ali Shah</a>(<a href="/wiki/Chief_Minister_of_Sindh" title="Chief Minister of Sindh">Sindh</a>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Ali_Amin_Gandapur" title="Ali Amin Gandapur">Ali Amin Gandapur</a>(<a href="/wiki/Chief_Minister_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">KPK</a>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Sarfraz_Bugti" title="Sarfraz Bugti">Sarfraz Bugti</a>(<a href="/wiki/Chief_Minister_of_Balochistan" title="Chief Minister of Balochistan">Balochistan</a>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Gulbar_Khan" title="Gulbar Khan">Gulbar Khan</a>(<a href="/wiki/Chief_Minister_of_Gilgit-Baltistan" title="Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan">Gilgit-Baltistan</a>)</li></ul></div></li> <li><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_constituencies_of_Pakistan" title="List of constituencies of Pakistan">Provincial assemblies of Pakistan</a>: <a href="/wiki/Provincial_Assembly_of_the_Punjab" title="Provincial Assembly of the Punjab">Punjab</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Provincial_Assembly_of_Sindh" title="Provincial Assembly of Sindh">Sindh</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Provincial_Assembly_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">KPK</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Provincial_Assembly_of_Balochistan" title="Provincial Assembly of Balochistan">Balochistan</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Gilgit-Baltistan_Assembly" title="Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly">Gilgi-Baltistan</a></li></ul></div></li></ul> <hr /> <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Azad_Kashmir" title="Government of Azad Kashmir">Azad Kashmir government</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/President_of_Azad_Kashmir" title="President of Azad Kashmir">President</a>: <a href="/wiki/Sultan_Mehmood_Chaudhry" title="Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry">Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Azad_Kashmir" title="Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir">Prime Minister</a>: <a href="/wiki/Chaudhry_Anwarul_Haq" title="Chaudhry Anwarul Haq">Chaudhry Anwarul Haq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azad_Jammu_and_Kashmir_Legislative_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly">Legislative Assembly</a></li></ul> <hr /> <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Gilgit-Baltistan" title="Government of Gilgit-Baltistan">Government of Gilgit-Baltistan</a> <hr /> <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Pakistan" title="Local government in Pakistan">Local government</a> <div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Divisions_of_Pakistan" title="Divisions of Pakistan">Divisions</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Districts_of_Pakistan" title="Districts of Pakistan">Districts</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_tehsils_in_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="List of tehsils in Pakistan">Tehsil</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Union_councils_of_Pakistan" title="Union councils of Pakistan">UCs</a></li></ul></div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:rgb(220,245,220);padding-left:0.4em;text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Pakistan" title="Parliament of Pakistan">Parliament legislature</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="padding-top:0;text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Senate_of_Pakistan" title="Senate of Pakistan">Senate (Upper House)</a></li></ul> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Senate_of_Pakistan,_2024.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Senate_of_Pakistan%2C_2024.png/130px-Senate_of_Pakistan%2C_2024.png" decoding="async" width="130" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Senate_of_Pakistan%2C_2024.png/195px-Senate_of_Pakistan%2C_2024.png 1.5x, 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href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">PML(N)</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition" title="Leader of the Opposition">Opposition leader</a>: <a href="/wiki/Shibli_Faraz" title="Shibli Faraz">Shibli Faraz</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">PTI</a>)</li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Pakistan)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Assembly (Pakistan)">National Assembly (Lower House)</a></li></ul> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:National_Assembly_of_Pakistan,_after_SIC_reserve_seats_case_(2024).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/National_Assembly_of_Pakistan%2C_after_SIC_reserve_seats_case_%282024%29.svg/130px-National_Assembly_of_Pakistan%2C_after_SIC_reserve_seats_case_%282024%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="130" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/National_Assembly_of_Pakistan%2C_after_SIC_reserve_seats_case_%282024%29.svg/195px-National_Assembly_of_Pakistan%2C_after_SIC_reserve_seats_case_%282024%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/National_Assembly_of_Pakistan%2C_after_SIC_reserve_seats_case_%282024%29.svg/260px-National_Assembly_of_Pakistan%2C_after_SIC_reserve_seats_case_%282024%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1316" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Pakistan" title="Prime Minister of Pakistan">Leader of the House</a>: <a href="/wiki/Shehbaz_Sharif" title="Shehbaz Sharif">Shehbaz Sharif</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">PML(N)</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_National_Assembly_of_Pakistan" title="Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan">Speaker</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ayaz_Sadiq" title="Ayaz Sadiq">Ayaz Sadiq</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">PML(N)</a>)</li> <li>Deputy speaker: <a href="/wiki/Syed_Ghulam_Mustafa_Shah_(Pakistani_politician)" title="Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah (Pakistani politician)">Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pakistan_People%27s_Party" title="Pakistan People's Party">PPP</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Pakistan)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Pakistan)">Leader of the Opposition</a>: <a href="/wiki/Omar_Ayub_Khan" title="Omar Ayub Khan">Omar Ayub Khan</a></li></ul> <hr /> <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Pakistan" title="Constitution of Pakistan">Constitution of Pakistan</a> <ul><li><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Previous constitutions:<a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Pakistan_of_1956" title="Constitution of Pakistan of 1956">1956</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Pakistan_of_1962" title="Constitution of Pakistan of 1962">1962</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Pakistan" title="Constitution of Pakistan">1973</a></li></ul></div></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annex_to_the_Constitution_of_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Annex to the Constitution of Pakistan">Annex</a> (written 1949, incorporated 1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amendments_to_the_Constitution_of_Pakistan" title="Amendments to the Constitution of Pakistan">Amendments</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Law_of_Pakistan" title="Law of Pakistan">Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Penal_Code" title="Pakistan Penal Code">Pakistan Penal Code</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Pakistan" title="Human rights in Pakistan">Human rights</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:rgb(220,245,220);padding-left:0.4em;text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Executive_(government)" title="Executive (government)">Executive</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="padding-top:0;text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/President_of_Pakistan" title="President of Pakistan">President of Pakistan</a>: <a href="/wiki/Asif_Ali_Zardari" title="Asif Ali Zardari">Asif Ali Zardari</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pakistan_People%27s_Party" title="Pakistan People's Party">PPP</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_Pakistan" title="List of presidents of Pakistan">List of presidents of Pakistan</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Pakistan" title="Prime Minister of Pakistan">Prime Minister of Pakistan</a>: <a href="/wiki/Shahbaz_Sharif" class="mw-redirect" title="Shahbaz Sharif">Shahbaz Sharif</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">PML-N</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Pakistan" title="List of prime ministers of Pakistan">List of prime ministers of Pakistan</a></li></ul> <hr /> <div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Pakistan" title="Cabinet of Pakistan">Cabinet of Pakistan</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Secretary_(Pakistan)" title="Cabinet Secretary (Pakistan)">Cabinet Secretary</a></li></ul></div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:rgb(220,245,220);padding-left:0.4em;text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Judiciary_of_Pakistan" title="Judiciary of Pakistan">Judiciary</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="padding-top:0;text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Pakistan" title="Supreme Court of Pakistan">Supreme Court of Pakistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_Pakistan" title="Chief Justice of Pakistan">Chief Justice</a>: <a href="/wiki/Qazi_Faez_Isa" title="Qazi Faez Isa">Qazi Faez Isa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_justices_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_Pakistan" title="List of justices of the Supreme Court of Pakistan">List of justices</a></li> <li>Judges appointment body: <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Judicial_Council_of_Pakistan" title="Supreme Judicial Council of Pakistan">Supreme Judicial Council</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/High_courts_of_Pakistan" title="High courts of Pakistan">High courts</a>: <a href="/wiki/Islamabad_High_Court" title="Islamabad High Court">Islamabad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lahore_High_Court" title="Lahore High Court">Punjab</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sindh_High_Court" title="Sindh High Court">Sindh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peshawar_High_Court" title="Peshawar High Court">KPK</a>, <a href="/wiki/Balochistan_High_Court" title="Balochistan High Court">Balochistan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Federal_Shariat_Court" title="Federal Shariat Court">Shariat Court</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li>Territorial courts: <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Azad_Jammu_and_Kashmir" title="Supreme Court of Azad Jammu and Kashmir">AJK supreme court</a>, <a 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Commission</a></li> <li>Chief Election Commissioner of AJK: Abdul Rashid Sulehria</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Election_Commission_Gilgit-Baltistan" title="Election Commission Gilgit-Baltistan">Gilgit-Baltistan Election Commission</a></li> <li>Chief Election Commissioner of Gilgit-Baltistan: Raja Shah Baz Khan</li></ul> <hr /> Elections <ul><li><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Presidential: <a href="/wiki/2008_Pakistani_presidential_election" title="2008 Pakistani presidential election">2008</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2013_Pakistani_presidential_election" title="2013 Pakistani presidential election">2013</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2018_Pakistani_presidential_election" title="2018 Pakistani presidential election">2018</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2024_Pakistani_presidential_election" title="2024 Pakistani presidential election">2024</a></li></ul></div></li> <li><div class="hlist"><ul><li>General: <a href="/wiki/1970_Pakistani_general_election" title="1970 Pakistani general election">1970</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/1977_Pakistani_general_election" title="1977 Pakistani general election">1977</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/1985_Pakistani_general_election" title="1985 Pakistani general election">1985</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/1988_Pakistani_general_election" title="1988 Pakistani general election">1988</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/1990_Pakistani_general_election" title="1990 Pakistani general election">1990</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/1993_Pakistani_general_election" title="1993 Pakistani general election">1993</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/1997_Pakistani_general_election" title="1997 Pakistani general election">1997</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2002_Pakistani_general_election" title="2002 Pakistani general election">2002</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2008_Pakistani_general_election" title="2008 Pakistani general election">2008</a></li><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">2013</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2018_Pakistani_general_election" title="2018 Pakistani general election">2018</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2024_Pakistani_general_election" title="2024 Pakistani general election">2024</a></li></ul></div></li></ul> <hr /> Provincial elections <ul><li><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Punjab: <a href="/wiki/2002_Punjab_provincial_election" title="2002 Punjab provincial election">2002</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2008_Punjab_provincial_election" title="2008 Punjab provincial election">2008</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2013_Punjab_provincial_election" title="2013 Punjab provincial election">2013</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2018_Punjab_provincial_election" title="2018 Punjab provincial election">2018</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2024_Punjab_provincial_election" title="2024 Punjab provincial election">2024</a></li></ul></div></li> <li><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Sindh: <a href="/wiki/2002_Sindh_provincial_election" title="2002 Sindh provincial election">2002</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2008_Sindh_provincial_election" title="2008 Sindh provincial election">2008</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2013_Sindh_provincial_election" title="2013 Sindh provincial election">2013</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2018_Sindh_provincial_election" title="2018 Sindh provincial election">2018</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2024_Sindh_provincial_election" title="2024 Sindh provincial election">2024</a></li></ul></div></li> <li><div class="hlist"><ul><li>KPK: <a href="/wiki/2002_North-West_Frontier_Province_provincial_election" title="2002 North-West Frontier Province provincial election">2002</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2008_North-West_Frontier_Province_provincial_election" title="2008 North-West Frontier Province provincial election">2008</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2013_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa_provincial_election" title="2013 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election">2013</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2018_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa_provincial_election" title="2018 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election">2018</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2024_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa_provincial_election" title="2024 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election">2024</a></li></ul></div></li> <li><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Balochistan: <a href="/wiki/2013_Balochistan_provincial_election" title="2013 Balochistan provincial election">2013</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2018_Balochistan_provincial_election" title="2018 Balochistan provincial election">2018</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2024_Balochistan_provincial_election" title="2024 Balochistan provincial election">2024</a></li></ul></div></li></ul> <hr /> Territorial elections <ul><li><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Azad Kashmir: <a href="/wiki/1970_Azad_Kashmiri_general_election" title="1970 Azad Kashmiri general election">1970</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/1975_Azad_Kashmiri_general_election" title="1975 Azad Kashmiri general election">1975</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/1985_Azad_Kashmiri_general_election" title="1985 Azad Kashmiri general election">1985</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/1990_Azad_Kashmiri_general_election" title="1990 Azad Kashmiri general election">1990</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/1991_Azad_Kashmiri_general_election" title="1991 Azad Kashmiri general election">1991</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/1996_Azad_Kashmiri_general_election" title="1996 Azad Kashmiri general election">1996</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2001_Azad_Kashmiri_general_election" title="2001 Azad Kashmiri general election">2001</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Azad_Kashmiri_general_election" title="2006 Azad Kashmiri general election">2006</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2011_Azad_Kashmiri_general_election" title="2011 Azad Kashmiri general election">2011</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2016_Azad_Kashmiri_general_election" title="2016 Azad Kashmiri general election">2016</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2021_Azad_Kashmiri_general_election" title="2021 Azad Kashmiri general election">2021</a></li></ul></div></li> <li><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Gilgit-Baltistan: <a href="/wiki/2009_Gilgit-Baltistan_Assembly_election" title="2009 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election">2009</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2015_Gilgit-Baltistan_Assembly_election" title="2015 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election">2015</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2020_Gilgit-Baltistan_Assembly_election" title="2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election">2020</a></li></ul></div></li></ul> <hr /> <a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Pakistan" title="List of political parties in Pakistan">Political parties</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">Pakistan Muslim League (N)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">Pakistan Peoples Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Pakistan" title="List of political parties in Pakistan">Complete list</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list 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title="List of diplomatic missions of Pakistan">Diplomatic missions of</a> / <a href="/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_in_Pakistan" title="List of diplomatic missions in Pakistan">in Pakistan</a></li></ul> <hr /> Customs <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pakistani_passport" title="Pakistani passport">Passport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Pakistani_citizens" title="Visa requirements for Pakistani citizens">Visa requirements</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Pakistan" title="Visa policy of Pakistan">Visa policy</a></li></ul> <hr /> Regional topics <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kashmir_conflict" title="Kashmir conflict">Kashmir conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/India%E2%80%93Pakistan_relations" title="India–Pakistan relations">India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/China_-_Pakistan_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="China - Pakistan relations">China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_United_States_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan United States 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The three major parties were the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">Pakistan Muslim League (N)</a> (PML-N) led by <a href="/wiki/Nawaz_Sharif" title="Nawaz Sharif">Nawaz Sharif</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_People%27s_Party" title="Pakistan People's Party">Pakistan People's Party</a> (PPP) led by <a href="/wiki/President_of_Pakistan" title="President of Pakistan">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Asif_Ali_Zardari" title="Asif Ali Zardari">Asif Ali Zardari</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf</a> (PTI) led by <a href="/wiki/Imran_Khan" title="Imran Khan">Imran Khan</a>. Prior to the elections, the ruling PPP formed an alliance with the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(Q)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (Q)">Pakistan Muslim League (Q)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Awami_National_Party" title="Awami National Party">Awami National Party</a>, while the main opposition party, the PML-N allied with the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(F)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (F)">Pakistan Muslim League (F)</a> and Baloch parties. The PTI led by cricketer-turned-politician <a href="/wiki/Imran_Khan" title="Imran Khan">Imran Khan</a>, also emerged as a key-player. The result was a hung parliament,<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> with the PML-N receiving the most votes and winning the most seats, but falling six seats short of a majority.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> However, following the elections, 19 independent MPs joined the PML-N, allowing it to form a government alone with <a href="/wiki/Nawaz_Sharif" title="Nawaz Sharif">Nawaz Sharif</a> as <a href="/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Prime Ministers of Pakistan">new</a> <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister" class="mw-redirect" title="Prime Minister">Prime Minister</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Zeenews.india.com-5">[5]</a> In the provincial elections, the PPP was able to defend its majority in <a href="/wiki/2013_Sindh_provincial_election" title="2013 Sindh provincial election">Sindh</a>. The PTI won the most seats in <a href="/wiki/2013_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa_provincial_election" title="2013 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</a>, the first time it had gained control of a province. The PML-N emerged as the largest party in <a href="/wiki/2013_Punjab_provincial_election" title="2013 Punjab provincial election">Punjab</a> and <a href="/wiki/2013_Balochistan_provincial_election" title="2013 Balochistan provincial election">Balochistan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-tribune.com.pk-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-thenews.com.pk-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> The elections were the first civilian transfer of power following the successful completion of a five-year term by a democratically elected government.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Long_March_(Pakistan)" title="Long March (Pakistan)">Long March (Pakistan)</a></div> According to the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Pakistan" title="Constitution of Pakistan">constitution</a> general elections are to be held at an <a href="/wiki/Limit_(calculus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Limit (calculus)">interval</a> of five years or whenever parliament is dissolved by the <a href="/wiki/President_of_Pakistan" title="President of Pakistan">President</a>.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> Upon dissolution of the <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_of_Pakistan" title="National Assembly of Pakistan">National Assembly</a> (a <a href="/wiki/Lower_house" title="Lower house">lower house</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Pakistan" title="Parliament of Pakistan">Parliament</a>), the elections are to be held within a period of sixty days immediately under a <a href="/wiki/Interim_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Interim government">caretaker set–up</a>.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> The <a href="/wiki/2008_Pakistani_general_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2008 Pakistani general elections">previous elections</a> were held in February 2008 and its term naturally expired in February 2013. In mid-January 2013, <a href="/wiki/Sufism" title="Sufism">Sufi cleric</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Awami_Tehreek" title="Pakistan Awami Tehreek">politician</a> Dr. <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Tahir-ul-Qadri" title="Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri">Tahir-ul-Qadri</a> led a <a href="/wiki/Long_March_(Pakistan)" title="Long March (Pakistan)">Long March</a> from <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a> to <a href="/wiki/Islamabad" title="Islamabad">Islamabad</a>, which is over 350 km, demanding the <a href="/wiki/Electoral_reform" title="Electoral reform">electoral reforms</a>, the quick dissolution of the <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_of_Pakistan" title="National Assembly of Pakistan">National Assembly</a> and a precise date for the election. The march attracted about ~50,000 participants from across Pakistan and ended peacefully. However, this appeared to have little impact on the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">PPP</a> government who continued on as per normal, and were seemingly following their plan as to when to announce elections. The <a href="/wiki/Political_corruption" title="Political corruption">anti-corruption</a> activism led by <a href="/wiki/Imran_Khan" title="Imran Khan">Imran Khan</a> gathered momentum and political interests.<a href="#cite_note-Express_Tribune,_PTI_2013-13">[13]</a> In the run up to the elections, a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">US Congressional report</a> provided a brief overview of the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">PPP</a> government between 2008 and 2013. The annual report included the input of <a href="/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community" title="United States Intelligence Community">16 US intelligence agencies</a>, including the <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">CIA</a>, which pointed the policies and performances of the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">PPP</a> government during their five-year term. The report wanted that "Economically, trouble looms. Pakistan, with its small <a href="/wiki/Taxation_in_Pakistan" title="Taxation in Pakistan">tax base</a>, poor system of tax collection, and reliance on <a href="/wiki/Foreign_aid_to_Pakistan" title="Foreign aid to Pakistan">foreign aid</a>, faces no real prospects for sustainable economic growth. The government has been unwilling to address <a href="/wiki/Economic_problem" title="Economic problem">economic problems</a> that continue to constrain economic growth. The <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">PPP</a> government has made no real effort to persuade its disparate coalition members to accept much-needed monetary policy and tax reforms, because members are simply focused on retaining their seats in the upcoming elections."<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Process">Process</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Process">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Pakistan" title="Elections in Pakistan">Elections in Pakistan</a></div> With assistance from the <a href="/wiki/International_Foundation_for_Electoral_Systems_activities_in_Asia" title="International Foundation for Electoral Systems activities in Asia">International Foundation for Electoral Systems</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Election_Commission_of_Pakistan" title="Election Commission of Pakistan">Election Commission of Pakistan</a> (ECP)announced the printing of computerised electoral rolls, the first of its kind database which resulted in the elimination of 35 million bogus voters off the list.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Schedule">Schedule</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Schedule">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>1 August 2012: The Election Commission of Pakistan announces 2013 general elections would be held on the basis of same old constituencies.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></li> <li>December 2012: The <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Pakistan" title="Supreme Court of Pakistan">Supreme Court of Pakistan</a> orders delimitation of constituencies and door-to-door verification of voters with the help of <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Army" title="Pakistan Army">Pakistan Army</a> in <a href="/wiki/Karachi" title="Karachi">Karachi</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</li> <li>17 January 2013: The <a href="/wiki/Election_Commission_of_Pakistan" title="Election Commission of Pakistan">Election Commission of Pakistan</a> (ECP) starts door-to-door verification of voters list.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a></li> <li>3 February 2013: President <a href="/wiki/Asif_Ali_Zardari" title="Asif Ali Zardari">Asif Ali Zardari</a> stated he would announce the election date between 8 and 14 March 2013.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a></li> <li>31 March 2013: Last date to submit the candidates' papers.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Caretaker_government">Caretaker government</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Caretaker government">edit</a>]</div> Following the recommendations in Article 224 (Clauses 1A-1B) of the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Pakistan" title="Constitution of Pakistan">constitution of Pakistan</a>, there arose a need to form a <a href="/wiki/Caretaker_government" title="Caretaker government">caretaker government</a> to operate in the interim period between the normal dissolution of parliament, facilitating the election process, until a new government was formed after the election results were known.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> To this effect, prime minister <a href="/wiki/Raja_Pervez_Ashraf" class="mw-redirect" title="Raja Pervez Ashraf">Pervez Ashraf</a> wrote a letter to the <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Pakistan)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Pakistan)">opposition leader</a> <a href="/wiki/Nisar_Ali_Khan" class="mw-redirect" title="Nisar Ali Khan">Nisar Ali Khan</a>, requesting him to propose names of persons for appointment as the <a href="/wiki/Caretaker_prime_minister" class="mw-redirect" title="Caretaker prime minister">caretaker prime minister</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">Pakistan Muslim League (N)</a> (PML-N), <a href="/wiki/Jamaat-e-Islami_Pakistan" title="Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan">Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan</a> (JI), <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehrik-i-Insaaf" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf">Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf</a> (PTI) and <a href="/wiki/Jamiat_Ulema-i-Islam" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam">Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam</a> (JUI-F) all agreed on the name of retired <a href="/wiki/List_of_Justices_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Pakistan">senior justice</a> <a href="/wiki/Nasir_Aslam_Zahid" title="Nasir Aslam Zahid">Nasir Aslam Zahid</a> as the caretaker PM until the elections take place.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> After a failure to achieve a consensus between the PPP government and the opposition, the matter was forwarded to a parliamentary committee of four members from both the government and the opposition.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> Under the provision of Article 224-A (Clause 3) of the constitution,<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> the Election Commission announced the appointment of retired <a href="/wiki/Federal_Shariat_Court" title="Federal Shariat Court">Federal Shariat Court</a> <a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_Federal_Shariat_Court" title="Chief Justice of the Federal Shariat Court">chief justice</a> <a href="/wiki/Mir_Hazar_Khan_Khoso" title="Mir Hazar Khan Khoso">Mir Hazar Khan Khoso</a> on 24 March 2013 in a press conference held by <a href="/wiki/Chief_Election_Commissioner_of_Pakistan" title="Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan">chief election commissioner</a> <a href="/wiki/Fakhruddin_G._Ebrahim" title="Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim">Fakhruddin G Ebrahim</a>.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> Consequently, Khoso was sworn into office as the caretaker prime minister on 25 March 2013,<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> while his <a href="/wiki/Khoso_caretaker_ministry" class="mw-redirect" title="Khoso caretaker ministry">caretaker federal cabinet</a> was sworn into office on 2 April 2013.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Registered_voters">Registered voters</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Registered voters">edit</a>]</div> Following is the final list of registered voters in each district of Pakistan who are eligible to cast their vote.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> <ul><li>The total number of registered voters for the election were 76,194,802.</li> <li>The province of Punjab had the highest number of registered voters.</li> <li>In cities, <a href="/wiki/Districts_of_Karachi" class="mw-redirect" title="Districts of Karachi">five districts of Karachi</a> which form the city of <a href="/wiki/Karachi" title="Karachi">Karachi</a> had a total of 7,171,237 registered voters; more than total voters of the province of Balochistan and more than any other <a href="/wiki/Urban_areas_of_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Urban areas of Pakistan">city</a> or district in Pakistan.</li> <li>In Balochistan, due to sparse population, some National Assembly seats were shared by two or three districts.</li></ul> <table class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"> <tbody><tr> <th style="background:#9cf;">Province</th> <th style="background:#9cf;">District</th> <th style="background:#9cf;">No. of Voters</th> <th style="background:#9cf;">Seat No </th></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Awaran</td> <td>56,387</td> <td>NA-270 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Barkhan</td> <td>55,327</td> <td>NA-263 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Chagai</td> <td>66,836</td> <td>NA-260 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Dera Bugti</td> <td>63,953</td> <td>NA-265 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Gwadar</td> <td>93,650</td> <td>NA-272 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Harnai</td> <td>33,140</td> <td>NA-265 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Jaffarabad</td> <td>247,316</td> <td>NA-266 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Jhal Magsi</td> <td>44,533</td> <td>NA-267 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Kachhi (Bolan)</td> <td>103,108</td> <td>NA-267 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Kalat</td> <td>104,445</td> <td>NA-268 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Kech</td> <td>173,972</td> <td>NA-272 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Kharan</td> <td>45,176</td> <td>NA-271 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Khuzdar</td> <td>165,593</td> <td>NA-269 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Killa Abdullah</td> <td>184,832</td> <td>NA-262 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Killa Saifullah</td> <td>88,424</td> <td>NA-264 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Kohlu</td> <td>38,624</td> <td>NA-265 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Lasbela</td> <td>182,697</td> <td>NA-270 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Loralai</td> <td>107,028</td> <td>NA-263 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Mastung</td> <td>80,118</td> <td>NA-268 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Musakhel</td> <td>51,864</td> <td>NA-263 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Nasirabad</td> <td>162,349</td> <td>NA-266 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Nushki</td> <td>61,878</td> <td>NA-260 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Panjgur</td> <td>74,751</td> <td>NA-271 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Pishin</td> <td>196,859</td> <td>NA-261 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Quetta</td> <td>559,939</td> <td>NA-259 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Sherani</td> <td>31,837</td> <td>NA-264 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Sibi</td> <td>75,832</td> <td>NA-265 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Washuk</td> <td>38,171</td> <td>NA-271 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Zhob</td> <td>96,278</td> <td>NA-264 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Balochistan</td> <td>Ziarat</td> <td>51,742</td> <td>NA-261 </td></tr> <tr> <td>BALOCHISTAN</td> <td>TOTAL</td> <td>3,336,659</td> <td>NA-259 to NA-272 </td></tr> <tr> <td>FATA</td> <td>Bajaur Agency</td> <td>353,554</td> <td>NA-43, NA-44 </td></tr> <tr> <td>FATA</td> <td>F.R. Bannu</td> <td>9,482</td> <td>NA-47 </td></tr> <tr> <td>FATA</td> <td>F.R. D. I. Khan</td> <td>22,269</td> <td>NA-47 </td></tr> <tr> <td>FATA</td> <td>F.R. Kohat</td> <td>41,070</td> <td>NA-47 </td></tr> <tr> <td>FATA</td> <td>F.R. Lakki Marwat</td> <td>9,939</td> <td>NA-47 </td></tr> <tr> <td>FATA</td> <td>F.R. Peshawar</td> <td>23,371</td> <td>NA-47 </td></tr> <tr> <td>FATA</td> <td>F.R. Tank</td> <td>15,581</td> <td>NA-47 </td></tr> <tr> <td>FATA</td> <td>Khyber Agency</td> <td>336,763</td> <td>NA-45, NA-46 </td></tr> <tr> <td>FATA</td> <td>Kurram Agency</td> <td>262,021</td> <td>NA-37, NA-38 </td></tr> <tr> <td>FATA</td> <td>Mohmand Agency</td> <td>177,244</td> <td>NA-36 </td></tr> <tr> <td>FATA</td> <td>North Waziristan Agency</td> <td>160,666</td> <td>NA-40 </td></tr> <tr> <td>FATA</td> <td>Orakzai Agency</td> <td>125,687</td> <td>NA-39 </td></tr> <tr> <td>FATA</td> <td>South Waziristan Agency</td> <td>200,666</td> <td>NA-41, NA-42 </td></tr> <tr> <td>FATA</td> <td>TOTAL</td> <td>1,738,313</td> <td>NA-36 to NA-47 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Federal Area</td> <td>Islamabad</td> <td>625,964</td> <td>NA-48, NA-49 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Abbottabad</td> <td>675,188</td> <td>NA-17, NA-18 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Bannu</td> <td>444,059</td> <td>NA-26 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Batagram</td> <td>204,980</td> <td>NA-22 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Buner</td> <td>360,019</td> <td>NA-28 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Charsadda</td> <td>704,680</td> <td>NA-7, NA-8 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Chitral</td> <td>206,909</td> <td>NA-32 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>D. I. Khan</td> <td>606,959</td> <td>NA-24 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Hangu</td> <td>214,703</td> <td>NA-16 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Haripur</td> <td>531,866</td> <td>NA-19 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Karak</td> <td>315,087</td> <td>NA-15 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Kohat</td> <td>409,372</td> <td>NA-14 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Kohistan</td> <td>127,015</td> <td>NA-23 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Lakki Marwat</td> <td>330,274</td> <td>NA-27 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Lower Dir</td> <td>541,565</td> <td>NA-34 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Malakand</td> <td>311,172</td> <td>NA-35 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Mansehra</td> <td>742,674</td> <td>NA-20 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Mardan</td> <td>987,122</td> <td>NA-9, NA-10, NA-11 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Nowshera</td> <td>619,914</td> <td>NA-5, NA-6 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Peshawar</td> <td>1,393,144</td> <td>NA-1, NA-2, NA-3, NA-4 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Shangla</td> <td>296,722</td> <td>NA-31 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Swabi</td> <td>714,454</td> <td>NA-12, NA-13 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Swat</td> <td>981,823</td> <td>NA-29, NA-30 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Tank</td> <td>150,585</td> <td>NA-25 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Tor Ghar</td> <td>64,867</td> <td>NA-21 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</td> <td>Upper Dir</td> <td>331,004</td> <td>NA-33 </td></tr> <tr> <td>KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA</td> <td>TOTAL</td> <td>12,266,157</td> <td>NA-1 to NA-35 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Attock</td> <td>1,022,180</td> <td>NA-57, NA-58, NA-59 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Bahawalnagar</td> <td>1,264,077</td> <td>NA-188, NA-189, NA-190, NA-191 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Bahawalpur</td> <td>1,522,061</td> <td>NA-183, NA-184, NA-185, NA-186, NA-187 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Bhakkar</td> <td>711,837</td> <td>NA-73, NA-74 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Chakwal</td> <td>929,747</td> <td>NA-60, NA-61 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Chiniot</td> <td>602,290</td> <td>NA-86, NA-87, NA-88 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Dera Ghazi Khan</td> <td>1,052,720</td> <td>NA-171, NA-172, NA-173 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Faisalabad</td> <td>3,622,748</td> <td>NA-75, NA-76, NA-77, NA-78, NA-79, NA-80, NA-81, NA-82, NA-83, NA-84, NA-85 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Gujranwala</td> <td>2,273,141</td> <td>NA-95, NA-96, NA-97, NA-98, NA-99, NA-100, NA-101 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Gujrat</td> <td>1,581,402</td> <td>NA-104, NA-105, NA-106, NA-107 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Hafizabad</td> <td>543,646</td> <td>NA-102, NA-103 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Jhang</td> <td>1,145,415</td> <td>NA-89, NA-90, NA-91 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Jhelum</td> <td>783,571</td> <td>NA-62, NA-63 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Kasur</td> <td>1,463,575</td> <td>NA-138, NA-139, NA-140, NA-141, NA-142 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Khanewal</td> <td>1,301,926</td> <td>NA-156, NA-157, NA-158, NA-159 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Khushab</td> <td>680,471</td> <td>NA-69, NA-70 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Lahore</td> <td>4,410,095</td> <td>NA-118, NA-119, NA-120, NA-121, NA-122, NA-123, NA-124, NA-125, NA-126, NA-127, NA-128, NA-129, NA-130 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Layyah</td> <td>736,509</td> <td>NA-181, NA-182 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Lodhran</td> <td>727,177</td> <td>NA-154, NA-155 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Mandi Bahauddin</td> <td>815,154</td> <td>NA-108, NA-109 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Mianwali</td> <td>757,191</td> <td>NA-71, NA-72 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Multan</td> <td>2,110,177</td> <td>NA-148, NA-149, NA-150, NA-151, NA-152, NA-153 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Muzaffargarh</td> <td>1,681,436</td> <td>NA-176, NA-177, NA-178, NA-179, NA-180 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Nankana Sahib</td> <td>623,625</td> <td>NA-135, NA-136, NA-137 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Narowal</td> <td>792,379</td> <td>NA-115, NA-116, NA-117 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Okara</td> <td>1,396,811</td> <td>NA-143, NA-144, NA-145, NA-146, NA-147 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Pakpattan</td> <td>823,478</td> <td>NA-164, NA-165, NA-166 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Rahim Yar Khan</td> <td>1,904,615</td> <td>NA-192, NA-193, NA-194, NA-195, NA-196, NA-197 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Rajanpur</td> <td>724,286</td> <td>NA-174, NA-175 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Rawalpindi</td> <td>2,645,608</td> <td>NA-50, NA-51, NA-52, NA-53, NA-54, NA-55, NA-56 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Sahiwal</td> <td>1,190,424</td> <td>NA-160, NA-161, NA-162, NA-163 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Sargodha</td> <td>1,861,804</td> <td>NA-64, NA-65, NA-66, NA-67, NA-68 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Sheikhupura</td> <td>1,341,341</td> <td>NA-131, NA-132, NA-133, NA-134 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Sialkot</td> <td>1,841,347</td> <td>NA-110, NA-111, NA-112, NA-113, NA-114 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Toba Tek Singh</td> <td>1,089,508</td> <td>NA-92, NA-93, NA-94 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Punjab</td> <td>Vehari</td> <td>1,285,562</td> <td>NA-167, NA-168, NA-169, NA-170 </td></tr> <tr> <td>PUNJAB</td> <td>TOTAL</td> <td>49,259,334 </td> <td>NA-50 to NA-197 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Badin</td> <td>639,314</td> <td>NA-224, NA-225 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Dadu</td> <td>609,609</td> <td>NA-231, NA-232, NA-233 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Ghotki</td> <td>568,065</td> <td>NA-200, NA-201 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Hyderabad</td> <td>923,140</td> <td>NA-218, NA-219, NA-220, NA-221 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Jacobabad</td> <td>394,557</td> <td>NA-208, NA-209, NA-210 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Jamshoro</td> <td>369,424</td> <td>NA-231 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Kambar-Shahdadkot</td> <td>508,062</td> <td>NA-206 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Karachi Central</td> <td>1,632,487</td> <td>NA-244, NA-245, NA-246, NA-247 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Karachi East</td> <td>2,093,898</td> <td>NA-253, NA-254, NA-255, NA-256 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Karachi South</td> <td>1,131,376</td> <td>NA-248, NA-249, NA-250, NA-251, NA-252 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Karachi West</td> <td>1,493,055</td> <td>NA-239, NA-240, NA-241, NA-242, NA-243 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Karachi Malir</td> <td>820,421</td> <td>NA-257, NA-258 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Kashmore</td> <td>353,616</td> <td>NA-210 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Khairpur</td> <td>838,502</td> <td>NA-215, NA-216, NA-217 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Larkana</td> <td>585,519</td> <td>NA-204, NA-205, NA-207 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Matiari</td> <td>300,486</td> <td>NA-223 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Mirpur Khas</td> <td>585,262</td> <td>NA-226, NA-227 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Naushahro Feroze</td> <td>600,090</td> <td>NA-211, NA-212 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Sanghar</td> <td>793,397</td> <td>NA-234, NA-235, NA-236 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Shaheed Benazirabad</td> <td>668,193</td> <td>NA-213, NA-214 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Shikarpur</td> <td>488,878</td> <td>NA-202, NA-203 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Sukkur</td> <td>527,635</td> <td>NA-198, NA-199 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Tando Allahyar</td> <td>286,956</td> <td>NA-223 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Tando Muhammad Khan</td> <td>230,554</td> <td>NA-222 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Tharparkar</td> <td>471,831</td> <td>NA-229, NA-230 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Thatta</td> <td>663,543</td> <td>NA-237, NA-238 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sindh</td> <td>Umerkot</td> <td>385,505</td> <td>NA-228 </td></tr> <tr> <td>SINDH</td> <td>TOTAL</td> <td>18,963,375</td> <td>NA-198 to NA-258 </td></tr> <tr> <td>PAKISTAN</td> <td>TOTAL</td> <td>0</td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Campaign">Campaign</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Campaign">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="padding:10px; width:120px;">Party leader </th> <th style="padding:10px">Most recent position of party leader </th> <th style="padding:10px;">Seats won </th> <th style="padding:10px;">Popular vote </th> <th style="padding:10px;">Status after election </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Nawaz_Sharif_January_2015.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Nawaz_Sharif_January_2015.jpg/100px-Nawaz_Sharif_January_2015.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="137" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Nawaz_Sharif_January_2015.jpg/150px-Nawaz_Sharif_January_2015.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Nawaz_Sharif_January_2015.jpg/200px-Nawaz_Sharif_January_2015.jpg 2x" data-file-width="532" data-file-height="727" /></a> <big><a href="/wiki/Nawaz_Sharif" title="Nawaz Sharif">Nawaz Sharif</a></big></td> <td style="background:#228B2F;"></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Pakistan" title="Prime Minister of Pakistan">Prime Minister of Pakistan</a> (November 1990 to July 1993, February 1997 to October 1999) </td> <td>125</td> <td>14,794,188</td> <td>In Government </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Asif_Ali_Zardari_-_2009.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Asif_Ali_Zardari_-_2009.jpg/100px-Asif_Ali_Zardari_-_2009.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Asif_Ali_Zardari_-_2009.jpg/150px-Asif_Ali_Zardari_-_2009.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Asif_Ali_Zardari_-_2009.jpg/200px-Asif_Ali_Zardari_-_2009.jpg 2x" data-file-width="327" data-file-height="439" /></a> <big><a href="/wiki/Asif_Ali_Zardari" title="Asif Ali Zardari">Asif Ali Zardari</a></big></td> <td style="background:#000000;"></td> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Presidents of Pakistan">11th</a> <a href="/wiki/President_of_Pakistan" title="President of Pakistan">President of Pakistan</a> (2008–2013) </td> <td>31</td> <td>6,822,958</td> <td>In Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Konferenz_Pakistan_und_der_Westen_-_Imran_Khan_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Konferenz_Pakistan_und_der_Westen_-_Imran_Khan_%28cropped%29.jpg/100px-Konferenz_Pakistan_und_der_Westen_-_Imran_Khan_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="122" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Konferenz_Pakistan_und_der_Westen_-_Imran_Khan_%28cropped%29.jpg/150px-Konferenz_Pakistan_und_der_Westen_-_Imran_Khan_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Konferenz_Pakistan_und_der_Westen_-_Imran_Khan_%28cropped%29.jpg/200px-Konferenz_Pakistan_und_der_Westen_-_Imran_Khan_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1150" data-file-height="1405" /></a> <big><a href="/wiki/Imran_Khan" title="Imran Khan">Imran Khan</a></big></td> <td style="background:#E70A0A;"></td> <td>Chairman of <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf</a> (1995–2023) </td> <td>27</td> <td>7,563,504</td> <td>In Opposition </td></tr></tbody></table> With the announcement of the care-taker government, campaigning from parties—including the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">PPP</a>, <a href="/wiki/Muslim_League_(N)" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim League (N)">PML (N)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">PTI</a>—started as early as 27 March, six weeks ahead of the 11 May election date.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> Observers noted that different parties stressed on different interest groups – PTI on the disaffected youth, PML-N on the centre-right constituency, PPP on liberal classes and rural Sindhis, and MQM on Karachi-based muhajirs. Power shortages were another issue in the election campaign.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pakistan_Peoples_Party">Pakistan Peoples Party</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Pakistan Peoples Party">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/New_Left" title="New Left">New Left</a>, <a href="/wiki/Socialism_in_Pakistan" title="Socialism in Pakistan">Socialism in Pakistan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Centre-left" class="mw-redirect" title="Centre-left">Centre-left</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Pakistan_People%27s_Party.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Pakistan_People%27s_Party.svg/200px-Flag_of_Pakistan_People%27s_Party.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Pakistan_People%27s_Party.svg/300px-Flag_of_Pakistan_People%27s_Party.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Pakistan_People%27s_Party.svg/400px-Flag_of_Pakistan_People%27s_Party.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">PPP</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Socialism_in_Pakistan" title="Socialism in Pakistan">socialist</a> party, advocating for <a href="/wiki/Social_democracy" title="Social democracy">Social democracy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marxist_economics" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxist economics">Marxist economics</a>.</figcaption></figure> Founded in 1968, the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">Pakistan Peoples Party</a> (PPP) is a centre-left and <a href="/wiki/Socialism_in_Pakistan" title="Socialism in Pakistan">left oriented</a> party, with a mainstream agenda of promoting <a href="/wiki/Socialist_economics" title="Socialist economics">socialist economics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Social_justice" title="Social justice">social justice</a>. The PPP announced that <a href="/wiki/Asif_Ali_Zardari" title="Asif Ali Zardari">Zardari</a> would be its candidate for the next <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Pakistan" title="Prime Minister of Pakistan">Prime Minister</a>, though Bilawal Zardari was still too young to become prime minister. Article 62 of the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Pakistan" title="Constitution of Pakistan">Constitution</a> clearly states that the Prime Minister must be a person who is "not less than twenty-five years of age and is enrolled as a voter in any electoral roll for election to the seat".<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> On 5 May 2013, it was revealed that Zardari had left Pakistan for Dubai and would not be present at all on election day. He unexpectedly left the country and would not be addressing any party rallies or meetings. The PPP also announced that he would not return until after the elections are over.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> The PPP's campaign was led by <a href="/wiki/Amin_Fahim" class="mw-redirect" title="Amin Fahim">Amin Fahim</a>, accompanied by notable leftist activists such as <a href="/wiki/Taj_Haider" title="Taj Haider">Taj Haider</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aitzaz_Ahsan" title="Aitzaz Ahsan">Aitzaz Ahsan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Raza_Rabbani" title="Raza Rabbani">Raza Rabbani</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Yousaf_Raza_Gillani" class="mw-redirect" title="Yousaf Raza Gillani">Yousaf Gillani</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Dawn_Fahim-32">[32]</a> The PPP ran two different political programmes during the election campaign: "Massawat" (lit. <a href="/wiki/Egalitarianism" title="Egalitarianism">Egalitarianism</a>) and "People's Employment Programme" for the youth voters, and also its vintage "<a href="/wiki/Roti_Kapda_Aur_Makaan" class="mw-redirect" title="Roti Kapda Aur Makaan">Roti Kapda Aur Makaan</a> (lit. Bread, Cloth, House) slogan.<a href="#cite_note-PPP_Public_Relations_Press_Release-33">[33]</a> The PPP highlighted its implementation of the <a href="/wiki/Nationalization_in_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationalization in Pakistan">nationalization</a> and <a href="/wiki/Benazir_Income_Support_Programme" title="Benazir Income Support Programme">welfare</a> programs that were launched in 2008.<a href="#cite_note-PPP_Public_Relations_Press_Release-33">[33]</a> In addition, the PPP greatly supported awareness of industrial and <a href="/wiki/Labor_rights" title="Labor rights">labor rights</a>, importance of <a href="/wiki/Higher_education_in_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Higher education in Pakistan">higher education in the country</a>, promotion of <a href="/wiki/Social_economics" class="mw-redirect" title="Social economics">social economics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign policy of Pakistan">a foreign policy</a> of building relations with Russia and Eastern Europe, <a href="/wiki/Counter-intelligence_and_counter-terrorism_organizations" title="Counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism organizations">counterterrorism legislation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iran-Pakistan-India_gas_pipeline" class="mw-redirect" title="Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline">efforts to reduce gas shortages in the country</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Daily_Motion_News-34">[34]</a><a href="#cite_note-The_Nation_election_cell_monitoring-35">[35]</a> Generally, the PPP's main focused was on gathering its support from <a href="/wiki/Sindh" title="Sindh">Sindh</a>.<a href="#cite_note-National_Assembly_database-2">[2]</a> In a critical editorial in the <a href="/wiki/Pakistani_English" title="Pakistani English">English</a>-language newspaper, <a href="/wiki/The_Nation_(Pakistan)" title="The Nation (Pakistan)">The Nation</a>, the PPP neglected to highlight the prevailing issue of <a href="/wiki/Energy_in_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Energy in Pakistan">energy conservation</a> to reduce the repeated cycle of <a href="/wiki/Loadshedding" class="mw-redirect" title="Loadshedding">loadshedding</a> in the country.<a href="#cite_note-The_Nation_election_cell_monitoring-35">[35]</a> Soon after the PM's last address on 16 March 2013, TV carried live broadcasts from the streets of <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a> and <a href="/wiki/Karachi" title="Karachi">Karachi</a>, where the public mood was one of anger over corruption, the bad economy, and faulty public services. The reaction of political analysts was mixed, with many holding massive corruption and nepotism as the reasons for the government's perceived failures. Even in his televised address, while trumpeting the occasion, PM Raja P Ashraf quietly conceded that his government had also been a source of disappointment for many. Public resentment had been fed by an endless list of problems: enduring power shortages [up to 18 hours a day at the peak of summer]; the failure to curb terrorist attacks, protect religious minorities and formulate a coherent anti-terrorism strategy; slow and weak response to the floods; sluggish economic growth, a bloated public sector, cresting inflation; and tales of legendary corruption, carving out private fortunes from a treasury to which they scandalously paid little in tax. Many Pakistanis, particularly among the urban middle classes, were looking to the next elections with relief.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> In <a href="/wiki/Karachi" title="Karachi">Karachi</a> and other parts of the country, the PPP also maintained a <a href="/wiki/New_Left" title="New Left">New Left</a> alliance with the <a href="/wiki/Awami_National_Party" title="Awami National Party">ANP</a>, <a href="/wiki/Muttahida_Qaumi_Movement_%E2%80%93_Pakistan" title="Muttahida Qaumi Movement – Pakistan">MQM</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Pakistan" title="Communist Party of Pakistan">Communist Party</a> against the conservative parties in Sindh.<a href="#cite_note-Express_Tribune-37">[37]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pakistan_Muslim_League_Noon">Pakistan Muslim League Noon</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Pakistan Muslim League Noon">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/New_Right" title="New Right">New Right</a>, <a href="/wiki/Centre-right" class="mw-redirect" title="Centre-right">Centre-right</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Conservatism_in_Pakistan" title="Conservatism in Pakistan">Conservatism in Pakistan</a></div> The <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">Pakistan Muslim League</a>, a centre-right <a href="/wiki/Conservatism_in_Pakistan" title="Conservatism in Pakistan">conservative</a> party, began its campaign on terminating the <a href="/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Pakistan" title="Electricity sector in Pakistan">energy conservation crises</a>, and also issues involving <a href="/wiki/National_Security_Council_(Pakistan)" title="National Security Council (Pakistan)">national security</a>, <a href="/wiki/Economic_liberalisation_in_Pakistan" title="Economic liberalisation in Pakistan">economic development</a>, <a href="/wiki/Education_in_Pakistan" title="Education in Pakistan">higher education</a>, <a href="/wiki/Immigration_to_Pakistan" title="Immigration to Pakistan">immigration</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Taxation_in_Pakistan" title="Taxation in Pakistan">taxation reforms</a>.<a href="#cite_note-NYT52713-38">[38]</a> The campaign was led by <a href="/wiki/Nawaz_Sharif" title="Nawaz Sharif">Nawaz Sharif</a>, who emphasis the success of the <a href="/wiki/Privatisation_in_Pakistan" title="Privatisation in Pakistan">privatisation</a> to alleviate youth employment and small businesses, introducing policies for the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency">environmental preservation</a>, building <a href="/wiki/Motorways_of_Pakistan" title="Motorways of Pakistan">motorways</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anti_Terrorism_Court_of_Pakistan" title="Anti Terrorism Court of Pakistan">counterterrorism legislation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Economic_liberalisation_in_Pakistan" title="Economic liberalisation in Pakistan">economic liberalisation</a>, improvement of the <a href="/wiki/Lahore_Metrobus_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Lahore Metrobus Service">public transportation</a> in all over the country, and then the decision of authorising the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan%27s_nuclear_testing_series" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan's nuclear testing series">nuclear-testing programme</a> in 1998.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> Over several days, Sharif delivered speeches and visited in all over the country for the support, promising that: "Just like the <a href="/wiki/Chagai-I" title="Chagai-I">nuclear blasts</a>, conducted in our last tenure, made us an <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Pakistan" title="Nuclear power in Pakistan">atomic power</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Economic_boom" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic boom">economic explosion</a> in our next term will turn the country into a commercial powerhouse."<a href="#cite_note-Khaleej_Times-40">[40]</a><a href="#cite_note-GEO_News-41">[41]</a> Furthermore, the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">PML(N)</a> indicated to bring a balance on <a href="/wiki/Civil_military_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil military relations">civil-military</a> relations with the <a href="/wiki/Pakistani_military" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistani military">military</a>, through opening a source of political channel to resolve issues.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">PML(N)</a> ran a political programme which was termed as "Ilmi aur Maashi Dhamaka" (lit. <a href="/wiki/Education_in_Pakistan" title="Education in Pakistan">Education</a> and <a href="/wiki/Economic_boom" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic boom">Economic boom</a>) at the public circles, and gained a lot of public support from all over the <a href="/wiki/Punjab,_Pakistan" title="Punjab, Pakistan">Punjab</a>, and the financial support from the <a href="/wiki/Business_in_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Business in Pakistan">business community</a> in <a href="/wiki/Karachi" title="Karachi">Karachi</a>, which proved to be a crucial factor in <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">PML(N)</a>'s efforts to gain <a href="/wiki/Majority" title="Majority">majority</a> in the elections.<a href="#cite_note-The_Guardians,_Pakistan-43">[43]</a> After delivering a victory speech in May 2013, Nawaz Sharif became <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ousted_Prime_Minister_of_Pakistan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ousted Prime Minister of Pakistan (page does not exist)">Prime Minister</a> for a third term on 5 June 2013 after receiving vote of confidence in the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Pakistan" title="Parliament of Pakistan">Parliament</a>. He received 244 votes in the 342-seat parliament.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League" title="Pakistan Muslim League">PML(N)</a> was generally supported by <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(F)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (F)">PML(F)</a> against the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">PPP</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sindh" title="Sindh">Sindh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Balochistan_National_Party_(Mengal)" title="Balochistan National Party (Mengal)">BNP</a> in <a href="/wiki/Balochistan" title="Balochistan">Balochistan</a>, also against the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">PPP</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Center_for_Research_and_Security_Studies-45">[45]</a> Terming it as "EEE programme" for <a href="/wiki/Education_in_Pakistan" title="Education in Pakistan">Education</a>, <a href="/wiki/Energy_in_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Energy in Pakistan">Energy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Pakistan" title="Economy of Pakistan">Economy</a>, the PML(N) popularise its slogan "Stronger Economy–Strong Pakistan", which was released in 2012.<a href="#cite_note-PMLN--Press_Public_relations-46">[46]</a> Addressing to the national via <a href="/wiki/News_channels_in_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="News channels in Pakistan">news channels</a> representatives, the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League" title="Pakistan Muslim League">PML(N)</a> debated that aside from balancing the <a href="/wiki/Energy_in_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Energy in Pakistan">energy conservation</a>, ending <a href="/wiki/Periods_of_stagflation_in_Pakistan" title="Periods of stagflation in Pakistan">stagflation</a> as well inflation, and resolving the issues relating to <a href="/wiki/Counter-terrorism" class="mw-redirect" title="Counter-terrorism">counter-terrorism</a> and <a href="/wiki/National_security" title="National security">national security</a>, its quick economic recovery programmes is also aimed to increase the expenditure on education, health, food security, and "non-pension" <a href="/wiki/Social_security" class="mw-redirect" title="Social security">social security</a> from the annual <a href="/wiki/Growth_capital" title="Growth capital">GDP</a> by 2018, as part of the policy measurement programmes.<a href="#cite_note-Express_Tribune,_2013_(PMLN_Menifesto)-47">[47]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf">Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Third_Way" title="Third Way">Third Way</a></div> The <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf</a> (PTI) is a <a href="/wiki/Centrism" title="Centrism">centrist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Welfare_state_reform" class="mw-redirect" title="Welfare state reform">welfarist</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism">nationalist</a> political party a mainstream political programme of supporting the "<a href="/wiki/Third_Way" title="Third Way">Third Way</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Welfare_state_reform" class="mw-redirect" title="Welfare state reform">welfarism</a>".<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> In the midst of election campaign, the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">PTI</a>'s chairman, <a href="/wiki/Imran_Khan" title="Imran Khan">Imran Khan</a>, called for an inter-party elections for the leadership of the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">PTI</a>. Many renowned individuals were defeated in the intra-party elections, such as <a href="/wiki/Arif_Alvi" title="Arif Alvi">Arif Alvi</a> who was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Pervez_Khattak" title="Pervez Khattak">Pervez Khattak</a> as <a href="/wiki/Secretary-general" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary-general">secretary-general</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ejaz_Chaudhary" title="Ejaz Chaudhary">Ejaz Chaudhary</a> who defeated Ahsan Rasheed. <a href="/wiki/Imran_Khan" title="Imran Khan">Imran</a> informed the media that no-one from his party will be eligible to hold the post of the party chairman for more than two terms. Motives behind this inter-party elections were to will ultimately finish off the "dynasty-type, family limited companies politics" from the country, as <a href="/wiki/Imran_Khan" title="Imran Khan">Imran Khan</a> maintained.<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">PTI</a> rigorously campaigned on social awareness, social reforms, <a href="/wiki/Telecommunication_industry" class="mw-redirect" title="Telecommunication industry">telecommunication</a>, and the expansion of the <a href="/wiki/E-Government_in_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="E-Government in Pakistan">e-government</a> in all over the country.<a href="#cite_note-Express_Tribune,_PTI_2013-13">[13]</a> Other main points of <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">PTI</a>'s campaign was to end the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan%27s_role_in_the_War_on_Terror" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan's role in the War on Terror">role</a> of country in the <a href="/wiki/War_on_Terrorism" class="mw-redirect" title="War on Terrorism">War on Terrorism</a> and to regulate private schools' fees structure with the quality of education they provide.<a href="#cite_note-Express_Tribune,_PTI_2013-13">[13]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">PTI</a> targeted the <a href="/wiki/Socialism_in_Pakistan" title="Socialism in Pakistan">left-wing</a> policies of <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">PPP</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Pakistan" title="Corruption in Pakistan">corruption</a> that took place in <a href="/wiki/Category:Government-owned_companies_of_Pakistan" title="Category:Government-owned companies of Pakistan">state-owned enterprises</a> after underwent through the <a href="/wiki/Nationalization_in_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationalization in Pakistan">nationalisation</a> programme, started in 2008 by the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">PPP</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Express_Tribune,_PTI_2013-13">[13]</a> During a campaign rally in Lahore, <a href="/wiki/Imran_Khan" title="Imran Khan">Imran</a> fell 14 ft as he was stepping off an improvised forklift. He was seen to be bleeding and unconscious with a gash on his head. He was then taken to <a href="/wiki/Shaukat_Khanum_Memorial_Cancer_Hospital_%26_Research_Centre" class="mw-redirect" title="Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre">Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital</a> where <a href="/wiki/Imran_Khan" title="Imran Khan">Imran</a> was treated for two fractures to his spinal column.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> During the election process, the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">PTI</a> was also leading a religio-political alliance, consisting of <a href="/wiki/Jamaat-e-Islami_Pakistan" title="Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan">Jamaat-e-Islami</a> and the Shia minority <a href="/wiki/Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen" class="mw-redirect" title="Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen">MWM</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Center_for_Research_and_Security_Studies-45">[45]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pervez_Musharraf">Pervez Musharraf</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Pervez Musharraf">edit</a>]</div> On 24 March 2013, former President <a href="/wiki/Pervez_Musharraf" title="Pervez Musharraf">Pervez Musharraf</a> returned from self-imposed exile to lead the liberal <a href="/wiki/All_Pakistan_Muslim_League" title="All Pakistan Muslim League">APML</a> and to run in the election despite threats from the <a href="/wiki/Far_right" class="mw-redirect" title="Far right">far-right</a> and <a href="/wiki/Islamic_extremism" title="Islamic extremism">extremist</a> <a href="/wiki/Tehrik-i-Taliban_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan">Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan</a> (TTP) on his life,<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> similar to the return of <a href="/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto" title="Benazir Bhutto">Benazir Bhutto</a>, who was assassinated shortly after returning. On immediate basis, Musharraf's candidature was rejected from his home town of <a href="/wiki/Karachi" title="Karachi">Karachi</a> on the grounds that he violated the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Pakistan" title="Constitution of Pakistan">Constitution</a> and that he had sacked <a href="/wiki/List_of_Justices_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Pakistan">senior judges</a> during his presidency. Electoral <a href="/wiki/Returning_officer" title="Returning officer">returning officer</a> Ikramur Rehman upheld the objections by his rivals. The liberal <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(Q)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (Q)">PML(Q)</a> official, Afzal Agha, said "this is a biased decision." He was also rejected from the <a href="/wiki/Kasur" title="Kasur">Kasur</a>– a rural town in <a href="/wiki/Punjab,_Pakistan" title="Punjab, Pakistan">Punjab</a>. However, he was later approved in the <a href="/wiki/Chitral" title="Chitral">Chitral</a>, also a rural town in <a href="/wiki/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">Khyber–Pathtunkwa</a>.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> On 8 April 2013, the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Pakistan" title="Supreme Court of Pakistan">Supreme Court</a> issued a summon to be appear over in the <a href="/wiki/Apex_court" class="mw-redirect" title="Apex court">apex court</a> to face charges of treason and barred him from leaving the country.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> On 16 April, an appeal for his approval from Chitral decided by a court in the provincial capital of <a href="/wiki/Peshawar" title="Peshawar">Peshawar</a> in which he was barred on the grounds that he violated the constitution by imposing emergency rule in 2007. His lawyer said that he would appeal to the Supreme Court.<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> He was also ordered to be kept under <a href="/wiki/House_arrest" title="House arrest">house arrest</a> for two weeks. On 23 April, he appeared at a Rawalpindi court under tight security on charges relating to the <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Benazir_Bhutto" title="Assassination of Benazir Bhutto">assassination of Benazir Bhutto</a>.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> On 25 April, he was formally arrested for the same charge.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> The Peshawar High Court then banned him for life from taking part in politics activities. Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan said: "The former dictator [Musharraf] had ordered senior judges and their families be put under house arrest and twice abrogated the country's constitution."<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> In reaction to the ban, a party spokeswoman for the <a href="/wiki/All_Pakistan_Muslim_League" title="All Pakistan Muslim League">All Pakistan Muslim League</a> said that it would boycott the election.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> He was granted US$20,000 bail on 20 May.<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Violence">Violence</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Violence">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pre-election_violence">Pre-election violence</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Pre-election violence">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/Islamic_extremist_groups" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic extremist groups">extremist</a> <a href="/wiki/Terrorist_organisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Terrorist organisation">terrorist organisation</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Tehrik-i-Taliban_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan">Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan</a> (TTP), claimed the responsibility for two bombings at the offices of independent candidates on 28 April. In <a href="/wiki/Kohat" title="Kohat">Kohat</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Tehrik-i-Taliban_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan">TTP</a> bombed <a href="/wiki/Socialism_in_Pakistan" title="Socialism in Pakistan">left-wing</a> <a href="/wiki/Awami_National_Party" title="Awami National Party">ANP</a>'s Nasir Khan Afridi's office which killed six and critically wounded others. In the suburbs of <a href="/wiki/Peshawar" title="Peshawar">Peshawar</a>, a device bomb at killed three people.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> The next day, at least eight people, including the son of Afghani cleric Qazi Amin Waqad, were killed and 45 others were wounded in a suicide attack in Peshawar. The bomb had targeted Sahibzada Anees, a senior city administrator, who had just passed the area. Hilal was a part of the Afghan High Peace Council and was organising a meeting of Afghan and Pakistani religious scholars to oppose militancy. All political parties condemned the attack.<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> The same day, at a Karachi press conference the leaders of the <a href="/wiki/Socialism_in_Pakistan" title="Socialism in Pakistan">left-wing</a> parties– the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">PPP</a>, <a href="/wiki/Muttahida_Qaumi_Movement_%E2%80%93_Pakistan" title="Muttahida Qaumi Movement – Pakistan">MQM</a> and <a href="/wiki/Awami_National_Party" title="Awami National Party">ANP</a>—said that the attacks would not stop them from participating in the election. <a href="/wiki/Awami_National_Party" title="Awami National Party">ANP</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Secretary-General" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary-General">Secretary-General</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bashir_Jan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bashir Jan (page does not exist)">Bashir Jan</a>, said that his party had previously made sacrifices in relations to the 2012 assassination of <a href="/wiki/Bashir_Bilour" class="mw-redirect" title="Bashir Bilour">Bashir Bilour</a>, the former party leader. His statement followed an explosion that wounded three children near the election office of Mohammad Ahmed Khan, the ANP candidate from Charsadda in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> On 2 May, a bomb exploded outside the MQM headquarters in which seven people were injured.<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> On 4 May, at least three people were killed and 34 others were wounded when two bombs targeted the election office of the MQM in the Azeezabad area of Karachi.<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> In a rally in <a href="/wiki/Kurram_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Kurram Valley">Kurram Valley</a>, at least 15 people were dead and over 50 injured at a <a href="/wiki/Jamiat_Ulema-e-Islam" title="Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam">JUI(F)</a> rally for candidates Munir Orakzai and Ain-u-Dun Shakir. The rally was part of the faction led by <a href="/wiki/Fazal-ur-Rehman_(politician)" title="Fazal-ur-Rehman (politician)">Fazal-ur-Rehman</a>. The latter was slightly wounded.<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> Armed skirmishes and tensions also flared near the <a href="/wiki/Durand_Line" title="Durand Line">Afghanistan–Pakistan border</a>.<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> On 9 May, the son of former prime minister <a href="/wiki/Yousef_Raza_Gilani" class="mw-redirect" title="Yousef Raza Gilani">Yousef Raza Gilani</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ali_Haider_Gilani" class="mw-redirect" title="Ali Haider Gilani">Ali Haider Gilani</a>, was abducted following a gunfight at a rally in <a href="/wiki/Multan" title="Multan">Multan</a> that killed his personal secretary.<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Election_day_violence">Election day violence</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Election day violence">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2013_Pakistan_election_day_bombings" title="2013 Pakistan election day bombings">2013 Pakistan election day bombings</a></div> Scattered gun and bomb attacks marred an otherwise celebratory day in a nation mired in economic crisis and locked in a fight with a virulent native <a href="/wiki/Taliban_insurgency" title="Taliban insurgency">Taliban insurgency</a>. By the time polls closed in the evening, at least 20 people had died in attacks, the most serious targeting a pro-US political party in the southern port city of <a href="/wiki/Karachi" title="Karachi">Karachi</a>. The violence, which included blasts outside a political office in Karachi that left 10 dead, capped a bloody election season.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> More than 130 people have been killed in bombings and shootings over the campaign, prompting some to call this one of the deadliest votes in the country's history. Several bombs were reportedly defused before voting began on Saturday morning, according to <a href="/wiki/Al_Jazeera_Media_Network" title="Al Jazeera Media Network">al-Jazeera</a>. No one had so far taken the responsibility for the attacks, except for the initial two blasts in the coastal city of Karachi, claimed by <a href="/wiki/Pakistani_Taliban" title="Pakistani Taliban">TTP</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Opinion_polls">Opinion polls</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Opinion polls">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1023981488">@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .rquote{width:auto!important;float:none!important}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote rquote" style="float: right; width: 33%;"><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf</a> to play important role in next government.<div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/Najam_Sethi" title="Najam Sethi">Najam Sethi</a>, 2013</cite></div></blockquote> Various polls were conducted by different organisations, all of which show inconsistencies and different results. In March 2013, a survey by <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_B%C3%B6ll_Foundation" title="Heinrich Böll Foundation">Heinrich Böll Foundation</a> showed that 29% of the people surveyed would support the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">Pakistan Peoples Party</a>. As the highest nummain opposition party, 25% would support the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">Pakistan Muslim League (N)</a>, led by former prime minister <a href="/wiki/Nawaz_Sharif" title="Nawaz Sharif">Nawaz Sharif</a>. Another 20% supported the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led by former cricketer <a href="/wiki/Imran_Khan" title="Imran Khan">Imran Khan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> According to a survey conducted by <a href="/wiki/Gallup_Pakistan" title="Gallup Pakistan">Gallup Pakistan</a> and PILDAT the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">Pakistan Muslim League</a> topped the list on voting intention score in <a href="/wiki/Punjab" title="Punjab">Punjab</a>, followed by the PPP and the PTI respectively. The February 2013 political forecast is based on a nationwide poll of approximately 9,660 voters in 300 villages and urban localities. The voting intention score of PML-N stands at 63% in North and Central Punjab, 69% in Western Punjab and 49% in Southern Punjab, shows the survey. According to the consolidated findings of two nationwide polls on voting intentions, conducted by IRI and Gallup Pakistan respectively during past three months, the front runner in Pakistan's elections scheduled in mid-2013 is the PML-N. The PTI, according to the survey, is making deep inroads in <a href="/wiki/Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa" class="mw-redirect" title="Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa">Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa</a> where it has surpassed every other player by a 30% score.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1023981488"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote rquote" style="float: left; width: 33%;"><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">Pakistan Peoples Party</a> to emerge victorious on basis of performance.<div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/Qamar_Zaman_Kaira" title="Qamar Zaman Kaira">Qamar Zaman Kaira</a>, 2013</cite></div></blockquote> Senior political analyst, <a href="/wiki/Najam_Sethi" title="Najam Sethi">Najam Sethi</a> said, <a href="/wiki/Nawaz_Sharif" title="Nawaz Sharif">Nawaz Sharif</a> held public meetings and rallies in every nook and corner of the country while <a href="/wiki/Shahbaz_Sharif" class="mw-redirect" title="Shahbaz Sharif">Shahbaz Sharif</a> completed development projects in Punjab which attracted politicians from the other parties. Sethi said that the 3% raise in the popularity graph of the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">PPP</a> was made possible due to <a href="/wiki/Asif_Ali_Zardari" title="Asif Ali Zardari">Asif Ali Zardari</a>'s efforts who gathered many such politicians as used to oppose him. He said the popularity of both the parties increased due to the revival of the traditional politics and the same was the cause of decrease in popularity of unorthodox politicians like <a href="/wiki/Imran_Khan" title="Imran Khan">Imran Khan</a>. However, Imran Khan's next public meetings would help him a lot, Sethi predicted, saying that the PTI leader's graph would go up after public rallies in <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peshawar" title="Peshawar">Peshawar</a> and the party would play an important role in formation of the next government.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Support_based_on_generation_gap">Support based on generation gap</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Support based on generation gap">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Generation_gap" title="Generation gap">Generation gap</a></div> The survey's findings indicate that the PTI's support is derived from all age groups – 22.9 per cent of those between 18 and 35 years, 18.6 per cent of those between 36 and 50 years, 18.4 per cent of those between 51 and 70 years and 7.7 of those above 70 years support the PTI, dispelling the notion that its vote bank is rooted in the younger generation. The highest proportion of those aged between 36 and 50 years (32.5 per cent) indicate a preference for the PPP. Similarly, 46.2 per cent of those aged over 70 expressed a preference for the PML(N). Compared with respondents' voting histories, the PML(N)'s vote bank appears to have remained stagnant while the PPP's seems to have declined significantly. It appears that the PTI has a stronger urban base, while a higher proportion of rural respondents indicated that they would vote for either the PPP or the PML(N) in the upcoming elections.<a href="#cite_note-dawn.com-72">[72]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Voting_trends_by_ethnicity">Voting trends by ethnicity</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Voting trends by ethnicity">edit</a>]</div> Predictably, the highest level of support for the ruling <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">Pakistan Peoples Party</a> was pledged by <a href="/wiki/Sindhis" title="Sindhis">Sindhis</a>, 55% of whom said they would vote for the PPP in the upcoming elections. This was followed by Seraiki-speakers at 46%. Around ~44% of Hindko-speakers said they intend to vote for the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">Pakistan Muslim League</a>, closely followed by <a href="/wiki/Punjabi_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Punjabi people">Punjabi people</a> at 43%. The same proportion of <a href="/wiki/Hindko" title="Hindko">Hindko</a>-speakers – 44% – also expressed an intention to vote for the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf</a>, indicating a close contest between the two parties (PMLN and PTI) within that particular demographic. It is worth noting that while 34% of <a href="/wiki/Pashtun_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Pashtun people">Pakhtuns</a> stated that they would vote for <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf</a>, only 11% expressed support for the <a href="/wiki/Awami_National_Party" title="Awami National Party">Awami National Party</a> (ANP). 47% of <a href="/wiki/Baloch_people" title="Baloch people">Balochis</a> said that they would vote for the <a href="/wiki/Balochistan_National_Party_(Mengal)" title="Balochistan National Party (Mengal)">Balochistan National Party</a>.<a href="#cite_note-dawn.com-72">[72]</a> Similarly 90% Muhajirs of Hyderabad and urban areas of Karachi Largest metropolis in terms of area and population votes for Muttahida Qoumi Movement. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Support_based_on_household_income">Support based on household income</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Support based on household income">edit</a>]</div> On average, approximately a third of those earning up to 30,000 rupees each month indicated a preference for the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">Pakistan Peoples Party</a> whereas, among those earning more than 30,000 rupees, support for the party dropped to 10.8 percent. This is in keeping with the party's traditional pro-poor image. No such trend could be determined for the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">Pakistan Muslim League</a>, whose level of support remained similar across all income levels. Those earning in excess of 250,000 rupees each month (the highest identified income bracket in the survey) expressed the maximum intention to vote for either the <a href="/wiki/Muttahida_Qaumi_Movement_%E2%80%93_Pakistan" title="Muttahida Qaumi Movement – Pakistan">Muttahida Qaumi Movement</a> (MQM) or the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf</a>, at 33 per cent each. While this figure may appear anomalistic in the MQM's case – support for the party within the second highest income bracket (those earning between 100,000 and 250,000 rupees each month) was only four per cent – it was possible to identify a rough direct trend between level of income and support for the PTI. In general, it appeared that support for smaller parties declined with increasing levels of income.<a href="#cite_note-dawn.com-72">[72]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="International_monitor_recommendations">International monitor recommendations</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: International monitor recommendations">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/National_Democratic_Institute_for_International_Affairs" class="mw-redirect" title="National Democratic Institute for International Affairs">National Democratic Institution</a> have stated the elections will be a "historical transition." An NDI assessment mission—consisting of Canada's former prime minister <a href="/wiki/Joe_Clark" title="Joe Clark">Joe Clark</a>, former Indonesian House of Representatives member Nursanita Nasution, Chatham House senior fellow <a href="/wiki/Xenia_Dormandy" class="mw-redirect" title="Xenia Dormandy">Xenia Dormandy</a> and NDI Asia programmes director Peter Manikas—released its findings at a press briefing in <a href="/wiki/Islamabad" title="Islamabad">Islamabad</a> after its observation of Pakistan's political framework. The mission visited Pakistan from 16 to 21 December and met with election authorities, government officials, party leaders, media and citizen monitoring groups. Joe Clark commended the co-operation of all parties, especially in adopting measures to bring the <a href="/wiki/Federally_Administered_Tribal_Areas" title="Federally Administered Tribal Areas">Federally Administered Tribal Areas</a> under the political umbrella. Clark stated that the <a href="/wiki/Eighteenth_Amendment_to_the_Constitution_of_Pakistan" title="Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan">18th Amendment to the constitution</a> reflects the parliament's integrity and commitment towards a fair democratic handover. Nursanita Nasution highlighted the need to address the rights of women in the polling process so that "fear and intimidation in high-risk areas such as <a href="/wiki/Baluchistan_(Pakistan)" class="mw-redirect" title="Baluchistan (Pakistan)">Baluchistan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Federally_Administered_Tribal_Areas" title="Federally Administered Tribal Areas">FATA</a>, <a href="/wiki/Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa" class="mw-redirect" title="Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa">Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Karachi" title="Karachi">Karachi</a>" would not strip women of the opportunity to vote. Xenia Dormandy suggested "improving accessibility and adjusting locations" of women polling stations closer to those for men so that they could travel with the men in their families to vote. Sandra Houston, Regional Director of NDI, stated "We are impressed with the cooperation of all the stakeholders in assuring a smooth transition," sharing that voters have been registered with <a href="/wiki/National_Database_and_Registration_Authority" title="National Database and Registration Authority">Computerised National Identity Cards</a> and biometrics including photographs where possible.<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="European_Union">European Union</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: European Union">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> offered to send its observers to Pakistan's elections, in a bid to ensure a "peaceful, credible" vote that will be "acceptable" to all. "The EU looks forward to upcoming elections that are peaceful, credible, transparent, inclusive and acceptable to the Pakistani people," EU foreign ministers said released after talks. The 27-nation bloc "is ready to assist by deploying an election observation mission, as a tangible sign of our support for the democratic process," the statement added. The ministers also said they looked forward to re-energizing ties with the next government and hoped quick contacts could lead to a third EU-Pakistan summit.<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> Pakistan responded by saying it will welcome a European Union election observation mission during the forthcoming general elections."Yes, we will welcome the observation mission", foreign secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani said.<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> A 110-member team from the European Union will observe Pakistan's elections. The European Union High Representative and Vice-President of the European Commission, Ms. Catherine Ashton, has decided to authorise a European Union Election Observation Mission (EOM) to observe the elections. A member of the European Parliament will lead the 2013 EU EOM as its Chief Observer. The EU EOM team will include observers, experts, election analysts, political analysts, legal analysts, human rights analysts, media analysts and others. On the basis of special agreements with the EU, observers from Norway, Switzerland and Canada are also part of the EOM. Some members will be deployed well in advance of election day, while others will be deployed at least ten days prior to the election day. The observers will assess aspects of the election process, nomination of candidates, election campaign, counting, tabulation, announcement of official results and complaints' procedures, and will cover pre-election preparations, election-day itself and the post-electoral period. The observers will follow the political campaign and hold regular meetings with representatives of election management bodies, political parties, candidates and civil society groups.<a href="#cite_note-EU_to_observe_Pakistan's_elections-76">[76]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States">United States</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: United States">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Ambassador to Pakistan">US Ambassador to Pakistan</a> <a href="/wiki/Richard_G._Olson" title="Richard G. Olson">Richard Olsen</a> stated that the United States applauds democratic tendencies in Pakistan, expressing hopes that free and fair general elections would lead to peaceful transfer of authority from one civilian government to successor dispensation. Completion of the current term by a democratically elected government will be a milestone in <a href="/wiki/History_of_Pakistan" title="History of Pakistan">Pakistan's history</a>.<a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a> A US delegation consisting of Senator <a href="/wiki/Carl_Levin" title="Carl Levin">Carl Levin</a>, US Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olsen and <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Armed_Services" title="United States Senate Committee on Armed Services">Armed Services Committee</a> Senator <a href="/wiki/Jack_Reed_(Rhode_Island_politician)" title="Jack Reed (Rhode Island politician)">Jack Reed</a> visited Pakistan on 8 January for talks with Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Raja_Pervaiz_Ashraf" title="Raja Pervaiz Ashraf">Raja Pervaiz Ashraf</a>. The delegation stated that not only the US, but the world would observe the general election with great interest.<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Centre_for_American_Progress" class="mw-redirect" title="Centre for American Progress">Centre for American Progress</a> published a report called "Previewing Pakistan's 2013 Elections" whose author, Colin Cookman, writes that the United States should work with, and not attempt to control Pakistan's internal political processes. The report also warns that whoever wins the elections should try to resolve the problems the country faces or be prepared to face accountability. Cookman states that "only Pakistanis themselves are capable of establishing a more stable, democratic system capable of balancing diverse interest groups and effectively addressing the country's challenges." It encourages the US to make efforts to support Pakistan's democratic evolution and the success of its upcoming elections. Such efforts should include a public commitment to neutrality and respect for the electoral processes, coupled with support for an international observation mission. It also urges US diplomatic and military officials to continue to engage with a broad array of Pakistani civilian leaders and military officials, while making it clear that the United States "does not favour any specific electoral outcome and strongly opposes any disruption of the constitutional process or intervention during the caretaker period."<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> US officials have denied the general perception in Pakistan that the US government wants to influence the electoral process in Pakistan to bring in a friendly government. US Secretary of State <a href="/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry">John Kerry</a> skipped a planned visit to Pakistan to avoid accusations of meddling in the 11 May elections. Spokesperson <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Nuland" title="Victoria Nuland">Victoria Nuland</a> stated that the message the United States wants to send out during the election season is "we have no favourites among Pakistani politicians and we are looking forward to work with whoever is elected on May 11." Secretary Kerry's decision to skip Pakistan during his South Asia visit is an indication of Washington's eagerness to maintain neutrality during the elections.<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Results">Results</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Results">edit</a>]</div> Statistics and <a href="/wiki/Database" title="Database">database</a> collected and published by the <a href="/wiki/Election_Commission_of_Pakistan" title="Election Commission of Pakistan">Election Commission</a> (EC), approximately ~86.9 million <a href="/wiki/Pakistanis" title="Pakistanis">Pakistanis</a> were registered to vote.<a href="#cite_note-Election_Commission_of_Pakistan-81">[81]</a> Overall, the <a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Voter turnout</a> was 55.02%,<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a><a href="#cite_note-Voter_turn_out-83">[83]</a> the highest since <a href="/wiki/1970_Pakistani_general_election" title="1970 Pakistani general election">1970</a> and <a href="/wiki/1977_Pakistani_general_election" title="1977 Pakistani general election">1977</a>.<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> The Election Commission results were broadcast by <a href="/wiki/News_channels_in_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="News channels in Pakistan">news channels</a> announcing that the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">PML(N)</a> had emerged as the largest party, winning four times as many seats as its nearest competitor, the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">PPP</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Election_Commission_of_Pakistan_(results_and_overall_party_position)-85">[85]</a> Though, it fell short for a <a href="/wiki/Supermajority" title="Supermajority">supermajority</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Pakistan" title="Parliament of Pakistan">Parliament</a>. The PML-N ranks were boosted into an overall majority by 19 independent winning candidates who switched allegiance to the PML-N.<a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> The PPP emerged as the second largest party, with 45 seats, and the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">PTI</a>, with 33 seats, emerged as third largest party.<a href="#cite_note-Election_Commission_of_Pakistan_(results_and_overall_party_position)-85">[85]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Islamabad_Election_2013.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Islamabad_Election_2013.JPG/220px-Islamabad_Election_2013.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Islamabad_Election_2013.JPG/330px-Islamabad_Election_2013.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Islamabad_Election_2013.JPG/440px-Islamabad_Election_2013.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4326" data-file-height="2364" /></a><figcaption>A supporter of PMLN in NA 49 Islamabad, in Model Town Hummak, on the roof of a car rising his party flag and announcing the triumph of his party in that area</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="National_Assembly">National Assembly</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: National Assembly">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_14th_National_Assembly_of_Pakistan" title="List of members of the 14th National Assembly of Pakistan">List of members of the 14th National Assembly of Pakistan</a></div> Following the elections, 19 independents joined PML(N).<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> <table class="wikitable sortable"><caption></caption><tbody><tr><th colspan="9" style="text-align:center;color:black;background:#F8F9FA"><a href="/wiki/File:PakistanElection2013Diagram.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/PakistanElection2013Diagram.svg/360px-PakistanElection2013Diagram.svg.png" decoding="async" width="360" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/PakistanElection2013Diagram.svg/540px-PakistanElection2013Diagram.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/PakistanElection2013Diagram.svg/720px-PakistanElection2013Diagram.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="185" /></a></th></tr><tr><th scope="col" colspan="2" rowspan="2">Party</th><th scope="col" rowspan="2">Votes</th><th scope="col" rowspan="2">%</th><th colspan="5" scope="col">Seats</th></tr><tr><th scope="col">General</th><th scope="col">Women</th><th scope="col">Minority</th><th scope="col">Total</th><th scope="col">+/–</th></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#228b22"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">Pakistan Muslim League (N)</a></td><td style="text-align:right">14,874,104</td><td style="text-align:right">32.77</td><td style="text-align:right">126</td><td style="text-align:right">34</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td><td style="text-align:right">166</td><td style="text-align:right">+78</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#E70A0A"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf</a></td><td style="text-align:right">7,679,954</td><td style="text-align:right">16.92</td><td style="text-align:right">28</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">35</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#000"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">Pakistan Peoples Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">6,911,218</td><td style="text-align:right">15.23</td><td style="text-align:right">33</td><td style="text-align:right">8</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">42</td><td style="text-align:right">–74</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#C80000"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Muttahida_Qaumi_Movement_%E2%80%93_London" title="Muttahida Qaumi Movement – London">Muttahida Qaumi Movement</a></td><td style="text-align:right">2,456,153</td><td style="text-align:right">5.41</td><td style="text-align:right">19</td><td style="text-align:right">4</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">24</td><td style="text-align:right">–1</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#003800"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Jamiat_Ulema-e-Islam_(F)" title="Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F)">Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F)</a></td><td style="text-align:right">1,461,371</td><td style="text-align:right">3.22</td><td style="text-align:right">11</td><td style="text-align:right">3</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">15</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#00FF00"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(Q)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (Q)">Pakistan Muslim League (Q)</a></td><td style="text-align:right">1,409,905</td><td style="text-align:right">3.11</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td><td style="text-align:right">–52</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#8fac5d"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(F)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (F)">Pakistan Muslim League (F)</a></td><td style="text-align:right">1,072,846</td><td style="text-align:right">2.36</td><td style="text-align:right">5</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td><td style="text-align:right">+1</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#078edf"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Jamaat-e-Islami_Pakistan" title="Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan">Jamaat-e-Islami</a></td><td style="text-align:right">963,909</td><td style="text-align:right">2.12</td><td style="text-align:right">3</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">4</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#c83737"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Awami_National_Party" title="Awami National Party">Awami National Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">453,057</td><td style="text-align:right">1.00</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">3</td><td style="text-align:right">–10</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#FFFFFF"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Mutahida_Deeni_Mahaz" class="mw-redirect" title="Mutahida Deeni Mahaz">Mutahida Deeni Mahaz</a></td><td style="text-align:right">360,297</td><td style="text-align:right">0.79</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#FF4500"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Pashtunkhwa_Milli_Awami_Party" title="Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party">Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">214,631</td><td style="text-align:right">0.47</td><td style="text-align:right">3</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">4</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#B22222"></td><td><a href="/wiki/National_Peoples_Party_(Pakistan)" title="National Peoples Party (Pakistan)">National Peoples Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">197,829</td><td style="text-align:right">0.44</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">3</td><td style="text-align:right">+2</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#00A877"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(Z)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (Z)">Pakistan Muslim League (Z)</a></td><td style="text-align:right">128,510</td><td style="text-align:right">0.28</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:yellow"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Bahawalpur_National_Awami_Party" title="Bahawalpur National Awami Party">Bahawalpur National Awami Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">113,365</td><td style="text-align:right">0.25</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:black"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Jamiat_Ulama-e-Islam_Nazryati" title="Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam Nazryati">Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam Nazryati</a></td><td style="text-align:right">103,098</td><td style="text-align:right">0.23</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#9ACD32"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Awami_Muslim_League_(Pakistan)" title="Awami Muslim League (Pakistan)">Awami Muslim League</a></td><td style="text-align:right">93,046</td><td style="text-align:right">0.20</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F08080"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Sindh_United_Party" title="Sindh United Party">Sindh United Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">82,634</td><td style="text-align:right">0.18</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#00ff00"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Pakistan" title="Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Pakistan">Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Pakistan</a></td><td style="text-align:right">76,358</td><td style="text-align:right">0.17</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#006400"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(J)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (J)">Pakistan Muslim League (J)</a></td><td style="text-align:right">71,773</td><td style="text-align:right">0.16</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#5F9EA0"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Awami_Jamhuri_Ittehad_Pakistan" title="Awami Jamhuri Ittehad Pakistan">Awami Jamhuri Ittehad Pakistan</a></td><td style="text-align:right">71,175</td><td style="text-align:right">0.16</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#008000"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Jamiat_Ulema-e-Pakistan" title="Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan">Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan</a></td><td style="text-align:right">67,966</td><td style="text-align:right">0.15</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#FFEF00"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Balochistan_National_Party_(Mengal)" title="Balochistan National Party (Mengal)">Balochistan National Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">63,979</td><td style="text-align:right">0.14</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#CD5C5C"></td><td><a href="/wiki/National_Party_(Pakistan)" title="National Party (Pakistan)">National Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">61,148</td><td style="text-align:right">0.13</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">+1</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#556B2F"></td><td><a href="/wiki/All_Pakistan_Muslim_League" title="All Pakistan Muslim League">All Pakistan Muslim League</a></td><td style="text-align:right">54,231</td><td style="text-align:right">0.12</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#ADFF2F"></td><td>Pakistan National Muslim League</td><td style="text-align:right">52,398</td><td style="text-align:right">0.12</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#FF7F50"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party_(Shaheed_Bhutto)" title="Pakistan Peoples Party (Shaheed Bhutto)">Pakistan Peoples Party (Shaheed Bhutto)</a></td><td style="text-align:right">50,046</td><td style="text-align:right">0.11</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#b30029"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Qaumi_Watan_Party" title="Qaumi Watan Party">Qaumi Watan Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">46,574</td><td style="text-align:right">0.10</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Tehreek-e-Suba Hazara</td><td style="text-align:right">43,265</td><td style="text-align:right">0.10</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#0B9A51"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Majlis_Wahdat-e-Muslimeen" title="Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen">Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen</a></td><td style="text-align:right">41,520</td><td style="text-align:right">0.09</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#2F4F4F"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Sunni_Ittehad_Council" title="Sunni Ittehad Council">Sunni Ittehad Council</a></td><td style="text-align:right">37,732</td><td style="text-align:right">0.08</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#98FB98"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Sunni_Tehreek" title="Sunni Tehreek">Sunni Tehreek</a></td><td style="text-align:right">25,485</td><td style="text-align:right">0.06</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Sindh_Taraqi_Pasand_Party" title="Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party">Sindh Taraqi Passand Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">23,397</td><td style="text-align:right">0.05</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Qoumi Wattan Party</td><td style="text-align:right">19,253</td><td style="text-align:right">0.04</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#DC143C"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Awami_Workers_Party" title="Awami Workers Party">Awami Workers Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">18,650</td><td style="text-align:right">0.04</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#00AD9F"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Balochistan_National_Party_(Awami)" title="Balochistan National Party (Awami)">Balochistan National Party (Awami)</a></td><td style="text-align:right">12,866</td><td style="text-align:right">0.03</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">–1</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#EEEE11"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Hazara_Democratic_Party" title="Hazara Democratic Party">Hazara Democratic Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">11,052</td><td style="text-align:right">0.02</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Mohajir_Qaumi_Movement_Pakistan" title="Mohajir Qaumi Movement Pakistan">Mohajir Qaumi Movement</a></td><td style="text-align:right">10,575</td><td style="text-align:right">0.02</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#306EFF"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Jamote_Qaumi_Movement" title="Jamote Qaumi Movement">Jamote Qaumi Movement</a></td><td style="text-align:right">10,468</td><td style="text-align:right">0.02</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Saraiki Party</td><td style="text-align:right">5,236</td><td style="text-align:right">0.01</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Kissan Ittehad</td><td style="text-align:right">4,367</td><td style="text-align:right">0.01</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Falah Party</td><td style="text-align:right">4,207</td><td style="text-align:right">0.01</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Awami Justice Party</td><td style="text-align:right">3,803</td><td style="text-align:right">0.01</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Justice Party</td><td style="text-align:right">3,230</td><td style="text-align:right">0.01</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Islami_Tehreek" class="mw-redirect" title="Islami Tehreek">Islami Tehreek</a></td><td style="text-align:right">2,694</td><td style="text-align:right">0.01</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Christian Progressive Movement</td><td style="text-align:right">2,523</td><td style="text-align:right">0.01</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Mohib-e-Wattan Nowjawan Inqilabion Ki Anjuman</td><td style="text-align:right">2,503</td><td style="text-align:right">0.01</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Mutahidda Qabil Party</td><td style="text-align:right">2,399</td><td style="text-align:right">0.01</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Qaumi Tahaffaz Party</td><td style="text-align:right">2,202</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:blue"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Mustaqbil_Pakistan" title="Mustaqbil Pakistan">Mustaqbil Pakistan</a></td><td style="text-align:right">2,052</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Sairkistan Qaumi Ittehad</td><td style="text-align:right">1,890</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Seraiki Sooba Movement</td><td style="text-align:right">1,797</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#DC143C"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Awami_Workers_Party" title="Awami Workers Party">Awami Workers Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">1,657</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F08080"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Jamhoori_Wattan_Party" title="Jamhoori Wattan Party">Jamhoori Wattan Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">1,632</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Karwan-i-Millat</td><td style="text-align:right">1,412</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Jannat Pakistan Party</td><td style="text-align:right">1,269</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Tehreek Tabdili Nizam</td><td style="text-align:right">1,164</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Muslim League (SB)</td><td style="text-align:right">1,063</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Insani Haqook Party</td><td style="text-align:right">989</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Patriotic Movement</td><td style="text-align:right">948</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Muslim League (S)</td><td style="text-align:right">890</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Markazi Jamiat Mushaikh</td><td style="text-align:right">833</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Conservative Party</td><td style="text-align:right">794</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Tehreek-e-Istehkaam</td><td style="text-align:right">651</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#000000"></td><td>Islamic Republican Party</td><td style="text-align:right">631</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Tehrek-e-Inqalab</td><td style="text-align:right">593</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Tehreek-e-Ittehad Ummat</td><td style="text-align:right">583</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pak Justice Party</td><td style="text-align:right">537</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Freedom Party</td><td style="text-align:right">502</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Roshan Pakistan Muhaibban Wattan Party</td><td style="text-align:right">493</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Muslim League (H)</td><td style="text-align:right">472</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Mutahida Baloch Movement</td><td style="text-align:right">471</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Menecracy Action Party</td><td style="text-align:right">447</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Awami Himayat Tehreek</td><td style="text-align:right">330</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Islami Inqalab Party</td><td style="text-align:right">274</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Human Rights Party</td><td style="text-align:right">266</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#696969"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Jamiat_Ulema-e-Islam_(S)" title="Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S)">Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S)</a></td><td style="text-align:right">258</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Gharib Party</td><td style="text-align:right">256</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Sindh Dost Ittehad Party</td><td style="text-align:right">250</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Istehkaam-e-Pakistan</td><td style="text-align:right">240</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pak Wattan Party</td><td style="text-align:right">220</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#f1a4be"></td><td>Istiqlal Party</td><td style="text-align:right">218</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Hazara Awami Ittehad</td><td style="text-align:right">214</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan National Democratic Party</td><td style="text-align:right">191</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:red"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Pakistan" title="Communist Party of Pakistan">Communist Party of Pakistan</a></td><td style="text-align:right">191</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Ghareeb Awam Party</td><td style="text-align:right">174</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Muslim League (M)</td><td style="text-align:right">172</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Muslim League (C)</td><td style="text-align:right">152</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Afgan Qomi Movement</td><td style="text-align:right">152</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Brohi Party</td><td style="text-align:right">149</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Muhajir League</td><td style="text-align:right">134</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Muhafiz Watan Party</td><td style="text-align:right">126</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Azad Pakistan Party</td><td style="text-align:right">116</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Muslim League (Zehri)</td><td style="text-align:right">101</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Tehreek-e-Masawaat</td><td style="text-align:right">99</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>All Pakistan Bayrozgar Party</td><td style="text-align:right">89</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Aman Party</td><td style="text-align:right">71</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#004000"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Muttahida_Majlis-e-Amal" title="Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal">Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal</a></td><td style="text-align:right">69</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Motherland Party</td><td style="text-align:right">68</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Muslim League (H)</td><td style="text-align:right">64</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Qaumi Party</td><td style="text-align:right">55</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Islami Justice Party</td><td style="text-align:right">54</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Tehreek-e-Wafaq</td><td style="text-align:right">48</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Salam Pakistan Party</td><td style="text-align:right">34</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Aap Janab Sarkar Party</td><td style="text-align:right">30</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Jamiat Ulma-e-Pakistan (Niazi)</td><td style="text-align:right">27</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Muhammadi Party</td><td style="text-align:right">24</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Aalay Kalam Ullah Farman Rasool</td><td style="text-align:right">15</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>All Pakistan Youth Working Party</td><td style="text-align:right">14</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Punjab National Party</td><td style="text-align:right">13</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Awami Quwat Party</td><td style="text-align:right">9</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8F9FA"></td><td>Pakistan Awami Inqalab</td><td style="text-align:right">7</td><td style="text-align:right">0.00</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#DCDCDC"></td><td>Independents</td><td style="text-align:right">5,880,658</td><td style="text-align:right">12.96</td><td style="text-align:right">27</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">27</td><td style="text-align:right">–3</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Repoll ordered</td><td colspan="2"></td><td style="text-align:right">3</td><td style="text-align:right">–</td><td style="text-align:right">–</td><td style="text-align:right">3</td><td style="text-align:right">–</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Postponed/terminated/withheld</td><td colspan="2"></td><td style="text-align:right">5</td><td style="text-align:right">–</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td><td style="text-align:right">–</td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="font-weight:bold"><td colspan="2">Total</td><td style="text-align:right">45,388,404</td><td style="text-align:right">100.00</td><td style="text-align:right">272</td><td style="text-align:right">60</td><td style="text-align:right">10</td><td style="text-align:right">342</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr class="sortbottom"><td colspan="9" style="color:black;background:#eaecf0"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><th scope="row" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal;color:inherit;background:inherit">Registered voters/turnout</th><td>84,207,524</td><td>–</td><td colspan="5"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><td colspan="9" style="text-align:left">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160526044348/http://ecp.gov.pk/overallpartyposition310520131530.pdf">ECP</a> (elected seats), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130613004910/http://ecp.gov.pk/Misc/Reserved/02-Reserved%20Seats%20in%20NA%20Minority%2031-05-2013.pdf">ECP</a> (minority seats), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130612121031/http://ecp.gov.pk/Misc/Reserved/01-Reserved%20Seats%20in%20NA%20Women%2004-06-2013-0345.pdf">ECP</a> (women seats), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160803183930/http://ecp.gov.pk/Misc2013/voteBank.pdf">ECP</a> (votes)</td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Provincial_Assemblies">Provincial Assemblies</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Provincial Assemblies">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable sortable"><caption></caption><tbody><tr><th scope="col" colspan="2" rowspan="2">Party</th><th colspan="5" scope="col">Seats</th></tr><tr><th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/2013_Punjab_provincial_election" title="2013 Punjab provincial election">Punjab</a></th><th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/2013_Sindh_provincial_election" title="2013 Sindh provincial election">Sindh</a></th><th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/Provincial_Assembly_of_Balochistan" title="Provincial Assembly of Balochistan">Balochistan</a></th><th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/2013_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa_provincial_election" title="2013 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election">KP</a></th></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#228b22"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">Pakistan Muslim League (N)</a></td><td style="text-align:right">214</td><td style="text-align:right">4</td><td style="text-align:right">8</td><td style="text-align:right">12</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#E70A0A"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf</a></td><td style="text-align:right">24</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">39</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#000"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">Pakistan Peoples Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">6</td><td style="text-align:right">94</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">3</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#C80000"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Muttahida_Qaumi_Movement_%E2%80%93_London" title="Muttahida Qaumi Movement – London">Muttahida Qaumi Movement</a></td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">34</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:black"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Jamiat_Ulema-e-Islam" title="Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam">Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam</a></td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">13</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#8fac5d"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(F)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (F)">Pakistan Muslim League (F)</a></td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#0095cb"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Jamaat-e-Islami" title="Jamaat-e-Islami">Jamaat-e-Islami</a></td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">7</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#FF4500"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Pashtunkhwa_Milli_Awami_Party" title="Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party">Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">10</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#B22222"></td><td><a href="/wiki/National_Peoples_Party_(Pakistan)" title="National Peoples Party (Pakistan)">National Peoples Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#00FF00"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(Q)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (Q)">Pakistan Muslim League (Q)</a></td><td style="text-align:right">7</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#CD5C5C"></td><td><a href="/wiki/National_Party_(Pakistan)" title="National Party (Pakistan)">National Party (Pakistan)</a></td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#c83737"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Awami_National_Party" title="Awami National Party">Awami National Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">5</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#FFEF00"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Balochistan_National_Party_(Mengal)" title="Balochistan National Party (Mengal)">Balochistan National Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#556B2F"></td><td><a href="/wiki/All_Pakistan_Muslim_League" title="All Pakistan Muslim League">All Pakistan Muslim League</a></td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#00A877"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(Z)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (Z)">Pakistan Muslim League (Z)</a></td><td style="text-align:right">2</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#9ACD32"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Awami_Muslim_League_(Pakistan)" title="Awami Muslim League (Pakistan)">Awami Muslim League</a></td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#b30029"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Qaumi_Watan_Party" title="Qaumi Watan Party">Qaumi Watan Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">7</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#5F9EA0"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Awami_Jamhuri_Ittehad_Pakistan" title="Awami Jamhuri Ittehad Pakistan">Awami Jamhuri Ittehad Pakistan</a></td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">3</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:yellow"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Bahawalpur_National_Awami_Party" title="Bahawalpur National Awami Party">Bahawalpur National Awami Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#306EFF"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Jamote_Qaumi_Movement" title="Jamote Qaumi Movement">Jamote Qaumi Movement</a></td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#0B9A51"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Majlis_Wahdat-e-Muslimeen" title="Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen">Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen</a></td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#ADFF2F"></td><td>Pakistan National Muslim League</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#DCDCDC"></td><td>Independents</td><td style="text-align:right">39</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td><td style="text-align:right">7</td><td style="text-align:right">14</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Results awaited</td><td style="text-align:right">8</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Elections postponed</td><td style="text-align:right">2</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">1</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="font-weight:bold"><td colspan="2">Total</td><td style="text-align:right">297</td><td style="text-align:right">130</td><td style="text-align:right">51</td><td style="text-align:right">99</td></tr><tr class="sortbottom"><td colspan="6" style="color:black;background:#eaecf0"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><td colspan="6" style="text-align:left">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ecp.gov.pk/">ECP</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reactions">Reactions</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Reactions">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Domestic">Domestic</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Domestic">edit</a>]</div> On the night of the elections, the youth supporter, partisans, and lobbyists gathered in <a href="/wiki/Raiwand" class="mw-redirect" title="Raiwand">Raiwand</a>– a private residential place of president of the <a href="/wiki/PML_(N)" class="mw-redirect" title="PML (N)">PML</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nawaz_Sharif" title="Nawaz Sharif">Nawaz Sharif</a>. Speaking to his supporters and media representatives, Nawaz Sharif who was standing with his daughter, <a href="/wiki/Maryam_Nawaz" title="Maryam Nawaz">Maryam Nawaz</a> and wife <a href="/wiki/Kulsoom_Nawaz" title="Kulsoom Nawaz">Kulsoom Nawaz</a>, said: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">Through this vote and campaign, I have felt how much love Pakistan has for me. And I have twice as much love for you. Thank God that he has given us the chance to help you, to help Pakistan, to help the young people. We will fulfill all the promises that we have made. Pray that we can make a government on our own, without compromises or have to lean on anyone else. Because if we have to ask for seats, we cannot make a strong government. We forgive anyone who has abused us along the way and we have not cursed anyone. We want to get Pakistan out of trouble. We have a program to change the <a href="/wiki/State_of_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="State of Pakistan">State of Pakistan</a>. We must make a decision to change this country. To all other parties, I say come and sit at the table.<div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Nawaz Sharif, on 11 May 2013, source<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a></cite></div></blockquote> The <a href="/wiki/Chief_Election_Commissioner_of_Pakistan" title="Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan">Chief Election Commissioner</a> <a href="/wiki/Fakhruddin_G._Ebrahim" title="Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim">Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim</a> expressed gratitude to the voters for the record high turnout of 60%.<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> Secretary of the Election Commission Ishtiaq Ahmed Khan said that the elections were free, fair and transparent and the claims of irregularities will be answered on a case-by-case basis.<a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> Even before the result was announced, the PTI conceded defeat.<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> PTI leader Imran Khan congratulated Nawaz Sharif<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> but also demanded recounting in numerous constituencies.<a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> MQM leader <a href="/wiki/Altaf_Hussain_(Pakistani_politician)" title="Altaf Hussain (Pakistani politician)">Altaf Hussain</a> spoke to PML (N). He also called then the 'Punjabis representative party.' He went on to say that the "Muslim League (N) has emerged victorious in the elections and Nawaz Sharif is a representative leader of the Punjabis." His statements were condemned by some in the <a href="/wiki/Media_of_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Media of Pakistan">Pakistani media</a> and from supporters of the PML (N).<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a> Military analyst and security expert <a href="/wiki/Talat_Masood" title="Talat Masood">Talat Masood</a> said: "This is an ideal and a graceful victory for Sharif. He will form a strong government at the center, which is badly needed to tackle some enormous economic and security challenges."<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> President <a href="/wiki/Asif_Ali_Zardari" title="Asif Ali Zardari">Asif Ali Zardari</a> blamed the poor performance of PPP on a domestic and international conspiracy, as well as domestic terrorism by the Taliban preventing the party from campaigning.<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Economic">Economic</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Economic">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Karachi_Stock_Exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="Karachi Stock Exchange">Karachi Stock Exchange</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lahore_Stock_Exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="Lahore Stock Exchange">Lahore Stock Exchange</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Islamabad_Stock_Exchange" title="Islamabad Stock Exchange">Islamabad Stock Exchange</a></div> The country's stocks rose to record and the <a href="/wiki/Economic_indicator" title="Economic indicator">economic indicators</a> performed well in advance of the unofficially determined results in an expectation of <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">PML(N)</a>'s win.<a href="#cite_note-Jewish_News_Network-97">[97]</a> Upon news of the results, the <a href="/wiki/KSE_100" class="mw-redirect" title="KSE 100">KSE 100</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Karachi_Stock_Exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="Karachi Stock Exchange">Karachi Stock Exchange</a> crossed the 20,000 mark for the first time on 13 May 2013.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> The victory by <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">PML(N)</a> in the general election lifted the stock market to an all-time high on 11–13 May, in a sign that <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_investment" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan investment">investors</a>, which include <a href="/wiki/Goldman_Sachs_Capital_Partners" title="Goldman Sachs Capital Partners">Goldman Sachs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mark_Mobius" title="Mark Mobius">Mark Mobius</a> of Templeton, were seen as the top <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_investment" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan investment">foreign investors</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Karachi_Stock_Exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="Karachi Stock Exchange">Karachi Stock Exchange</a> on the prospect of further market gains through a stable government.<a href="#cite_note-CNBC_Pakistan-99">[99]</a> On the day of the elections, the benchmark <a href="/wiki/KSE_100" class="mw-redirect" title="KSE 100">KSE 100</a> Index gained 1.8%, the most since 12 March, ~20,272.28 Marks, taking its rally this year to 20.0%.<a href="#cite_note-Bloomberg_Businessweek-100">[100]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Muslim_Commercial_Bank" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim Commercial Bank">MCB Ltd.</a> gained ~4.9% to <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Rupee" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Rupee">₨.</a> 261.60 million, poised for the highest close since May 2008.<a href="#cite_note-Bloomberg_Businessweek-100">[100]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_State_Oil" title="Pakistan State Oil">Pakistan State Oil</a> (PSO) jumped 5.0% to <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Rupee" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Rupee">₨.</a> 221.86 million; the <a href="/wiki/Allied_Bank_Limited" title="Allied Bank Limited">ABL Assets</a> also increased its profit variation to ~<a href="/wiki/United_States_Dollar" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Dollar">$</a>203.0 million.<a href="#cite_note-Bloomberg_Businessweek-100">[100]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International">International</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: International">edit</a>]</div> <dl><dt>Supranational bodies</dt></dl> <ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Flag_of_Europe.svg/23px-Flag_of_Europe.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Flag_of_Europe.svg/35px-Flag_of_Europe.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Flag_of_Europe.svg/45px-Flag_of_Europe.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="810" data-file-height="540" /> <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> – High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy <a href="/wiki/Catherine_Ashton" title="Catherine Ashton">Catherine Ashton</a> called the election an "historic victory" for democracy in the country. "I wish to congratulate the people of Pakistan. The 2013 general election marks a historic victory for the democratic life on their country. Despite an extremely difficult security environment and threats from extremists, voters turned out in unprecedented numbers with many Pakistani citizens voting for the first time. All the main stakeholders, in particular the political parties and state institutions, acted in a responsible manner, demonstrating their support for democracy and the holding of the elections."<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /> <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> – <a href="/wiki/Secretary-General_of_the_United_Nations" title="Secretary-General of the United Nations">Secretary-General</a> <a href="/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon" title="Ban Ki-moon">Ban Ki-moon</a> congratulated the government and people of Pakistan on the successful conduction of national and provincial elections, hailing the polls, for which millions of voters turned out, as a major democratic step. "This is the first ever transition from one civilian government to another and a significant step forward for democracy in the country. By exercising their constitutional right to vote, the people of Pakistan have reaffirmed their desire for and commitment to a democratic Pakistan and their respect for the constitution of the country."<a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>States</dt></dl> <ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Flag_of_Afghanistan_%282013%E2%80%932021%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Afghanistan_%282013%E2%80%932021%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Flag_of_Afghanistan_%282013%E2%80%932021%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Afghanistan_%282013%E2%80%932021%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Flag_of_Afghanistan_%282013%E2%80%932021%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Afghanistan_%282013%E2%80%932021%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> – <a href="/wiki/Afghan_President" class="mw-redirect" title="Afghan President">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Hamid_Karzai" title="Hamid Karzai">Hamid Karzai</a> telephoned PML (N) leader Nawaz Sharif and congratulated him on his party triumph in the general elections. The Afghan President also expressed well wishes for Nawaz Sharif and his party.<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> Karzai said that he was optimistic that ties between two brotherly countries would be friendly after Nawaz take charge of Premier office. Nawaz vowed that Pakistan would take every step to improve its relationship with all neighbours especially with Afghanistan.</li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> – President <a href="/wiki/Xi_Jinping" title="Xi Jinping">Xi Jinping</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China">Ministry of Foreign Affairs</a> congratulated Nawaz Sharif. Spokesman <a href="/wiki/Hong_Lei_(diplomat)" title="Hong Lei (diplomat)">Hong Lei</a> said the Chinese government were happy to see steady and smooth elections in Pakistan. "As China's all-weather friend, China will continue to support Pakistan's efforts to maintain stability and achieve development. <a href="/wiki/China%E2%80%93Pakistan_relations" title="China–Pakistan relations">Sino-Pakistani friendly and cooperative relations</a> will enter into a new high with the efforts by the two sides."<a href="#cite_note-EU_to_observe_Pakistan's_elections-76">[76]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> – Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Manmohan_Singh" title="Manmohan Singh">Manmohan Singh</a> congratulated Nawaz Sharif on his "emphatic victory" in the historic elections and said he hoped for better relations. Singh wrote on his official Twitter account: "Congratulations to Mr. Nawaz Sharif and his party for their emphatic victory in Pakistan's elections". He said he hoped to work with Sharif to chart "a new course for the relationship" between the nuclear-armed neighbours and invited him to "visit India at a mutually convenient time."<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a></li></ul> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir_(state)" title="Jammu and Kashmir (state)">Jammu and Kashmir</a> Chief Minister <a href="/wiki/Omar_Abdullah" title="Omar Abdullah">Omar Abdullah</a> congratulated Nawaz Sharif for his party's performance and hoped that he would live up to his commitment to restart the peace process with India.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a></dd> <dd>The opposition <a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> congratulated Mr. Nawaz Sharif on his historic electoral victory<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a></dd></dl> <ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> – The <a href="/wiki/House_of_Saud" title="House of Saud">royal family</a> greeted Nawaz Sharif on his thumping victory in the elections. Sources said that Saudi personalities congratulating Nawaz Sharif have expressed their well wishes for him.<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/23px-Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/35px-Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/46px-Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a> – President <a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a> telephoned Nawaz Sharif and congratulated him on his victory in historic election.<a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/46px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="360" /> <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Foreign Affairs">Foreign Ministry</a> spokesman <a href="/wiki/Abbas_Araghchi" title="Abbas Araghchi">Abbas Araghchi</a> congratulated Pakistan for successful elections and for Sharif's ability to win the people's trust. Araqchi further pointed to the close relations between <a href="/wiki/Iran-Pakistan_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Iran-Pakistan relations">Iran and Pakistan</a> and hoped for further expansion of bilateral relations between the two neighbouring countries.<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/23px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/35px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/45px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /> <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> – Both President <a href="/wiki/Abdullah_Gul" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdullah Gul">Abdullah Gul</a> and Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdogan" class="mw-redirect" title="Recep Tayyip Erdogan">Recep Tayyip Erdogan</a> made separate phone calls to Nawaz Sharif and felicitated him on his victory.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a> – <a href="/wiki/Khalifa_Bin_Zayed_Al_Nahyan" class="mw-redirect" title="Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan">Sheikh Khalifa</a> congratulated Nawaz Sharif on his victory in the elections.<a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> – Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">David Cameron</a> congratulated Nawaz Sharif on his resounding election victory and praised his commitment to economic reforms. Cameron spoke to Sharif on the telephone and they agreed to work to reinforce the "strong bond" between their two countries. They also pledged their commitment to the trilateral process, the three-way talks between Britain, Pakistan and Afghanistan aimed at finding peace in Afghanistan, where Britain is starting to reduce its 9,000-strong troop presence. The Prime Minister and Nawaz Sharif agreed that the strong bond between the UK and Pakistan was a huge asset and that they would work together to strengthen the relationship further. Cameron welcomed Nawaz Sharif's commitment to prioritise economic reforms. The two leaders also agreed on their shared commitment to the trilateral process and its importance in achieving peace in Afghanistan and the wider region.<a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png 2x" data-file-width="69" data-file-height="39" /> <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> – President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> praised Pakistanis for upholding their commitment to democratic rule by successfully completing the elections. Obama hailed "this historic peaceful and transparent transfer of civilian power." He said Pakistanis ran competitive campaigns and persevered despite "intimidation by violent extremists."<a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a> Three days later, Obama called Sharif over the phone and again congratulated him on his party's election victory. "The US president said his country respects the mandate given to Nawaz Sharif in the elections." US Secretary of State <a href="/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry">John Kerry</a> called Sharif on the phone to congratulate him on his strong showing in Saturday's elections. Kerry also told Sharif that he looks forward to working with the government as the government is formed in Pakistan. Kerry is hoping to visit Pakistan soon, once the new government is in place.<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversies">Controversies</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Controversies">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Incidents_of_malpractice_and_rigging">Incidents of malpractice and rigging</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Incidents of malpractice and rigging">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>The winning candidate on PS-114, in <a href="/wiki/Sindh" title="Sindh">Sindh</a> of the ruling PML-N was disqualified and re-election ordered after it emerged that a large number of votes were invalid<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a></li> <li>The winning candidate on PP-97 Gujranwala, from the ruling PML-N, was disqualified and fresh elections were ordered after it emerged that serious rigging had taken place on the seat<a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Chief_Election_Commissioner_of_Pakistan" title="Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan">Chief Election Commissioner</a> conceded that the <a href="/wiki/Election_Commission_of_Pakistan" title="Election Commission of Pakistan">Election Commission</a> had failed to conduct free and fair elections in <a href="/wiki/Karachi" title="Karachi">Karachi</a>, Pakistan's largest city of 20 million and its main economic hub.<a href="#cite_note-nation.com.pk-117">[117]</a></li> <li>The Chief election Commissioner resigned, citing extreme judicial interference preventing the investigation of voter irregularities.<a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a><a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Election_Commission_of_Pakistan" title="Election Commission of Pakistan">Election Commission</a> admitted that it had no control of the Returning officers, the persons responsible for overseeing the election at individual polling stations.<a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">PTI</a> demanded the thumb verification be held in four constituencies – to check if the votes were genuine or bogus. The PMLN refused, ostensibly due to cost, despite the fact that the PTI offered to pay<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-121">[121]</a></li> <li>A candidate for PTI paid <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Rupee" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Rupee">₨.5 million</a> to have his votes verified. The election commission then confirmed that 265 bags of votes were bogus and only 69 were genuine.<a href="#cite_note-brecorder.com-122">[122]</a> The PTI candidate was defeated by the PML-N candidate.</li> <li>A candidate of <a href="/wiki/JUI-F" class="mw-redirect" title="JUI-F">JUI-F</a> was disqualified after it was learned that there had been rigging on 28 different women's polling stations.<a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a></li> <li>A PTI candidate disqualified PS-93 seat in Karachi to JI and re-election was ordered.</li></ul> <a href="#cite_note-124">[124]</a> <ul><li>In the <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly" title="National Assembly">National Assembly</a> <a href="/wiki/Constituency_NA-125" title="Constituency NA-125">Constituency NA-125</a> the National Database and Registration Authority <a href="/wiki/NADRA" class="mw-redirect" title="NADRA">NADRA</a> found that more than 20% of all votes cast were not verifiable<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a></li> <li>In the <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly" title="National Assembly">National Assembly</a> <a href="/wiki/Constituency_NA-118" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituency NA-118">Constituency NA-118</a> the National Database and Registration Authority <a href="/wiki/NADRA" class="mw-redirect" title="NADRA">NADRA</a> found that more than 33% of the votes cast could not be verified. More than 4000 votes were cast with incorrect/incomplete CNIC numbers.<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a> This constituency had been won by Malik Riaz.</li> <li>In the <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly" title="National Assembly">National Assembly</a> <a href="/wiki/Constituency_NA-154" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituency NA-154">Constituency NA-154</a> the National Database and Registration Authority <a href="/wiki/NADRA" class="mw-redirect" title="NADRA">NADRA</a> found that more than 20,000 votes were not verifiable. The seat was won by an independent candidate, Muhammad Siddique Khan Baloch, who later joined the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League-N" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Muslim League-N">Pakistan Muslim League-N</a>.<a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a></li> <li>In the Provincial Assembly <a href="/wiki/Constituency_PP-107_(Hafizabad-III)" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituency PP-107 (Hafizabad-III)">Constituency PP-107 (Hafizabad-III)</a> the election tribunal found evidence of "massive" and "organized" rigging.The extracts of the report, focusing on PP-107, Hafizabad-III, stated that "the result of the election favourable to the returned candidate is not the will of the electors of the constituency in the true sense at all". Tribunal judge Kazim Ali Malik states, "The election does not reflect the true will of the people."</li></ul> "I am fully justified on the basis of documentary evidence to set aside the election of the returned candidate, which does not reflect the true will of the people," Malik states in the report. "I therefore discard the available record as well as the election record, which has been misappropriated or stolen. I declare the election of the returned candidates from PP-107, Hafizabad-III as a whole to be void." In PP-107, Hafizabad-III, 21,298 fake and bogus votes were counted as valid votes towards the vote account of the candidates. The number of used counterfoils found in election bags by the commission was 54,242, while the total number of polled votes in a statement by the Returning Officer (RO) was recorded as 72,895.<a href="#cite_note-128">[128]</a> <ul><li>In the Provincial Assembly <a href="/wiki/Constituency_PP-97_(Gujranwala-VII)" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituency PP-97 (Gujranwala-VII)">Constituency PP-97 (Gujranwala-VII)</a> the election tribunal declared null and void the voting results in PP-97 and ordered re-election on 33 polling stations in the Punjab Assembly constituency won by ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's candidate.<a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Incidents_of_improper_investigations">Incidents of improper investigations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Incidents of improper investigations">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>The PML-N has been accused of hindering the bureaucracy's ability to carry out Free and fair elections, <a href="/wiki/Tariq_Malik" title="Tariq Malik">Tariq Malik</a>, the chairman of <a href="/wiki/NADRA" class="mw-redirect" title="NADRA">NADRA</a> was fired by <a href="/wiki/Nawaz_Sharif" title="Nawaz Sharif">Nawaz Sharif</a> after he announced that NADRA had the technology to verify votes through thumbprint verification. The <a href="/wiki/Islamabad_High_Court" title="Islamabad High Court">Islamabad High Court</a> had him restored to his position,<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-130">[130]</a> after which Tariq Malik resigned alleging that he had been threatened with kidnapping of him and his family by those who did not want the election process verified.<a href="#cite_note-dunyanews.tv-131">[131]</a></li> <li>After Tariq Malik's sacking. It emerged that someone had broken into NADRA's office and tampered with the ballot boxes of seat NA-118 (Lahore) which was at the centre of the rigging allegations. The boxes had been moved to NADRA so that the votes could be thumb verified, as demanded by the PTI, but had instead been tampered with. This has led to accusations by the opposition that the civil service is either under extreme pressure or incompetent in adjudicating disputes but no proof was given<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-130">[130]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Incidents_of_incompetence">Incidents of incompetence</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Incidents of incompetence">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>The election commission confirmed that there was a "typing error" on NA-68. PM Nawaz Sharif's winning seat, it emerged that the PM had received only 779 votes rather than 7879 as originally recorded. This has led to accusations of incompetence which has compromised the fairness of the elections<a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a><a href="#cite_note-133">[133]</a></li> <li>They announced this a whole year after the PTI, led by <a href="/wiki/Imran_Khan" title="Imran Khan">Imran Khan</a> demanded an investigation, which has led to accusations of critical inefficiency at the ECP.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Analysis">Analysis</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Analysis">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Aftermath">Aftermath</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Aftermath">edit</a>]</div> On 17 May 2013, the <a href="/wiki/Vice_President" class="mw-redirect" title="Vice President">Vice-President</a> of the PTI, <a href="/wiki/Zahra_Shahid_Hussain" title="Zahra Shahid Hussain">Zahra Hussain</a>, was shot and killed in Karachi just before re-election was due to be held.<a href="#cite_note-aljazeera1-134">[134]</a> Three days later, it was announced that the PTI had taken the Karachi seat in re-polling.<a href="#cite_note-aljazeera1-134">[134]</a> <a href="/wiki/Imran_Khan" title="Imran Khan">Imran Khan</a> alleged that <a href="/wiki/Altaf_Hussain_(Pakistani_politician)" title="Altaf Hussain (Pakistani politician)">Altaf Hussain</a>, a leader of <a href="/wiki/Muttahida_Qaumi_Movement_%E2%80%93_Pakistan" title="Muttahida Qaumi Movement – Pakistan">MQM</a>, was responsible for inciting violence and was responsible for the murder.<a href="#cite_note-aljazeera1-134">[134]</a> Few days later, <a href="/wiki/British_Police" class="mw-redirect" title="British Police">British Police</a> raided Altaf Hussain's house in London. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Government_formation">Government formation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Government formation">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Third_Nawaz_Sharif_government" title="Third Nawaz Sharif government">Third Nawaz Sharif government</a></div> The <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">PML(N)</a>'s key strategist, <a href="/wiki/Sartaj_Aziz" title="Sartaj Aziz">Sartaj Aziz</a>, announced in <a href="/wiki/News_channels_in_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="News channels in Pakistan">news media</a> the next day that the <a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">independents</a> candidates were in negotiation process with the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">PML(N)</a> to join the party to form the government and to work out "a few key portfolios."<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a> A total of nineteenth <a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">independents</a> who had won from their respected <a href="/wiki/Constituencies_of_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituencies of Pakistan">constituencies</a> joined the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">PML(N)</a>, which allowed the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">party</a> to form a government with a <a href="/wiki/Majority" title="Majority">simple majority</a>. This <a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">swing</a> ultimately led to <a href="/wiki/Nawaz_Sharif" title="Nawaz Sharif">Nawaz Sharif</a> elevated as the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Pakistan" title="Prime Minister of Pakistan">Prime Minister</a>. Soon after his appointment, <a href="/wiki/Navaz_Sharif" class="mw-redirect" title="Navaz Sharif">Sharif</a> said after being formally approved as prime minister that in regards to drone strikes: "We respect the sovereignty of others and they should also respect our sovereignty and independence. This campaign should come to an end." Despite this, two days later another drone strike killed seven people in Pakistan.<a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Election_for_prime_pinister">Election for prime pinister</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2013_Pakistani_general_election&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Election for prime pinister">edit</a>]</div> The election for prime minister took place on 5 June 2013.<a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a> <table class="wikitable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Raja_Pervaiz_Ashraf#Election_as_Prime_Minister" title="Raja Pervaiz Ashraf">←2012</a> </th> <th>5 June 2013 </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Panama_Papers_case#Election_of_a_new_Prime_Minister" title="Panama Papers case">2017→</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2">Candidate </th> <th>Party </th> <th>Votes Obtained </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3">Required majority → </th> <th>172 out of 342 </th></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#228b22"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nawaz_Sharif" title="Nawaz Sharif">Nawaz Sharif</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League_(N)" title="Pakistan Muslim League (N)">Pakistan Muslim League (N)</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">244 <img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/15px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/23px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" />Y </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ameen_Faheem" title="Ameen Faheem">Ameen Faheem</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">Pakistan Peoples Party</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">42 <img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/15px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/23px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" />N </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#E70A0A"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Javed_Hashmi" title="Javed Hashmi">Javed Hashmi</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Tehreek-e-Insaf" title="Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf">Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">31 <img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/15px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/23px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" />N </td></tr> <tr class="sortbottom" style="background:#f2f2f2; 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general election">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_Pakistani_general_election" title="1988 Pakistani general election">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_Pakistani_general_election" title="1990 Pakistani general election">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_Pakistani_general_election" title="1993 Pakistani general election">1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_Pakistani_general_election" title="1997 Pakistani general election">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_Pakistani_general_election" title="2002 Pakistani general election">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_Pakistani_general_election" title="2008 Pakistani general election">2008</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Pakistani_general_election" title="2018 Pakistani general election">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Pakistani_general_election" title="2024 Pakistani general election">2024</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Next_Pakistani_general_election" title="Next 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class="new" title="1962 Pakistani provincial election (page does not exist)">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1965_Pakistani_provincial_election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1965 Pakistani provincial election (page does not exist)">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_Pakistani_provincial_elections" title="1970 Pakistani provincial elections">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_Azad_Kashmiri_general_election" title="1975 Azad Kashmiri general election">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1977_Pakistani_provincial_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1977 Pakistani provincial elections (page does not exist)">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_Azad_Kashmiri_general_election" title="1985 Azad Kashmiri general election">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1988_Pakistani_provincial_elections&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1988 Pakistani provincial elections (page does not exist)">1988</a></li> <li><a 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<li><a href="/wiki/2006_Azad_Kashmiri_general_election" title="2006 Azad Kashmiri general election">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_Pakistani_provincial_elections" title="2008 Pakistani provincial elections">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Gilgit_Baltistan_Assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2009 Gilgit Baltistan Assembly election">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Azad_Kashmiri_general_election" title="2011 Azad Kashmiri general election">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Pakistani_provincial_elections" title="2013 Pakistani provincial elections">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Gilgit_Baltistan_Assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2015 Gilgit Baltistan Assembly election">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Azad_Kashmiri_general_election" title="2016 Azad Kashmiri general election">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Pakistani_provincial_elections" title="2018 Pakistani provincial elections">2018</a></li> <li><a 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