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2021 Azad Kashmir general election
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All 53 seats in the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly
27 seats needed for a majority
Registered3,220,793
Turnout61.30% (Decrease0.90%)
  First party Second party
 
Leader Abdul Qayyum Khan Niazi Chaudhry Latif Akbar
Party PTI PPP
Leader's seat Poonch & Sudhnoti-I Muzaffarabad-V
Last election 2 seats, 12.7% 4 seats, 21.2%
Seats won 32 12
Seat change Increase 30 Increase 8
Popular vote 613,590 349,895
Percentage 31.4% 17.9%
Swing Increase18.7pp Decrease3.3pp
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Raja Farooq Haider Attique Ahmed Khan
Party PML(N) AJKMC
Leader's seat Muzaffarabad-VI
Muzaffarabad-VII (lost) 		Bagh-I
Last election 36 seats, 44.4% 3 seats, 10.3%
Seats won 7 1
Seat change Decrease 29 Decrease 2
Popular vote 491,091 153,861
Percentage 25.1% 7.9%
Swing Decrease19.3pp Decrease2.4pp
Map of Azad Kashmir showing Assembly Constituencies
Prime Minister before election

Raja Farooq Haider
PML(N)

Elected Prime Minister

Abdul Qayyum Khan Niazi
PTI

General elections were held in Azad Kashmir on 25 July 2021 after the expiry of the 5-year term of the previous Legislative Assembly. The elections were held in 33 constituencies of Azad Kashmir and 12 constituencies of the refugees of Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan.

By an early estimate, over 2.82 million people of Azad Kashmir were registered to vote; of which 1.59 million were male voters, while 1.30 million were female voters. By the time of the election, the number of registered voters had increased to 3,220,793.

A total of 724 candidates stood for 45 general seats this year. 579 candidates competed for the 33 constituencies within Azad Kashmir, while the remaining 145 competed for the 12 refugee constituencies in Pakistan.

Background

In current elections The PTI won 26, the PPP 11 and PML N 6. In addition, AJ&K MC won 1 seats, JK PPP 1 seat.

Following these results, Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf was able to form a comfortable majority government, controlling 26 general seats and 6 reserved/technocrat seats, giving them 32 out of the 53 seats in the assembly.

Addition of new seats

4 new seats were added in Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly. Muzaffarabad, Neelum, Sudhanoti/Poonch and Kotli districts gained an additional seats each, hence, the number of members in the Assembly of Azad Kashmir was elevated from 49 to 53. Therefore the new amount of seats needed for a majority became 27.

Results

32 12 7 1 1
PTI PPP PML(N) AJKMC JKPP

Vote Share of different parties in the election.

  PTI (31.35%)  PML-N (25.09%)  PPP (17.88%)  AJKMC (7.86%)  JKPP (6.08%)  TLP (4.94%)  IND (6.80%)

Seat Share of different parties in the election.

  PTI (60.38%)  PPP (22.64%)  PML-N (13.21%)  AJKMC (1.89%)  JKPP (1.89%)

The polls were open across Azad Kashmir and Pakistan from 8:00 to 17:00 PST. The results of started to pour in after poll closings in the evening. The below table shows election results by political party.

PartyVotes%Seats
GeneralWomenUlema Technocrat and OverseasTotalChange Increase Steady Decrease
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf613,59031.35263332Increase30
Pakistan Peoples Party349,89517.88111012Increase9
Pakistan Muslim League (N)491,09125.096107Decrease24
All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference153,8617.861001Decrease2
Jammu Kashmir Peoples Party119,0486.081001Increase1
Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan96,6974.940000Steady
Independents133,1366.800000Steady
Total1,957,318100.00455353Increase4
Valid votes1,957,31899.14
Invalid/blank votes17,0000.86
Total votes1,974,318100.00
Registered voters/turnout3,220,79361.30
Source: EC-AJK (Party Positions), (everything else)

By constituency

Constituency Winner Runner-up Margin Registered

Voters

Votes

Cast

Voter

Turnout

District Name Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes %
Mirpur LA-1 Azhar Sadiq PTI 14,233 37.08% Chaudhry Masood Khalid PML(N) 7,609 19.82% 6,624 93,480 38,386 41.06%
LA-2 Chaudhry Qasim Majeed PPP 10,377 28.63% Zafar Anwar PTI 9,110 25.13% 1,267 84,985 36,250 42.65%
LA-3 Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry PTI 18,703 43.51% Muhammad Saeed PML(N) 15,556 36.19% 3,147 85,917 42,985 50.03%
LA-4 Chaudhry Arshad Hussain PTI 18,703 44.66% Rukhsar Ahmed PML(N) 20,984 41.16% 1,784 87,040 50,984 58.58%
Bhimber LA-5 Waqar Ahmed Noor PML(N) 21,799 36.54% Pervaiz Ashraf PPP 15,583 26.12% 6,216 82,620 59,666 72.22%
LA-6 Chaudhry Ali Shan Soni PTI 24,946 39.80% Muhammad Razzaq IND 16,640 26.55% 8,306 92,888 62,681 67.48%
LA-7 Chaudhry Anwarul Haq PTI 38,303 49.13% Chaudhry Tariq Farooq PML(N) 32,245 41.36% 6,058 112,029 77,967 69.60
Kotli LA-8 Zaffar Iqbal Malik PTI 17,299 36.53% Malik Muhammad Nawaz Khan AJKMC 12,107 25.57% 5,192 73,121 47,351 64.76%
LA-9 Chaudhry Javed Iqbal Budhanvi PPP 24,276 43.35% Sardar Muhammad Naeem Khan AJKMC 19,484 34.79% 4,792 84,622 56,000 66.18%
LA-10 Chaudhry Muhammad Yaseen PPP 9,696 21.70% Malik Muhammad Yousaf PTI 9,507 21.28% 189 70,533 44,674 63.34%
LA-11 Chaudhry Muhammad Ikhlaq PTI 25,201 36.75% Raja Muhammad Naseer PML(N) 24,288 35.42% 913 105,827 68,581 64.80%
LA-12 Chaudhry Muhammad Yaseen PPP 21,527 31.71% Muhammad Riasat Khan PML(N) 20,081 29.58% 1,446 106,428 67,880 63.78%
LA-13 Nisar Ansar PTI 23,340 37.53% Muhammad Waleed PPP 17,554 28.22% 5,786 96,220 62,194 64.64%
Bagh LA-14 Attique Ahmed Khan AJKMC 25,389 37.65% Muhammad Latif Khalique PTI 17,056 25.29% 8,333 102,491 67,437 65.80%
LA-15 Sardar Tanveer Ilyas PTI 19,825 34.03% Sardar Ziaul Qamar PPP 14,558 24.99% 5,267 96,561 58,257 60.33%
LA-16 Sardar Mir Akbar Khan PTI 23,563 41.46% Sardar Qamar uz Zaman Khan PPP 23,267 40.94% 296 87,814 56,828 64.71%
LA-17 Raja Faisal Mumtaz Rathore PPP 30,085 41.96% Chaudhry Muhammad Aziz PML(N) 25,421 35.45% 4,664 97,902 71,035 72.56%
Poonch LA-18 Abdul Qayyum Khan Niazi PTI 24,232 40.44% Chaudhry Muhammad Yasin Gulshan PML(N) 15,769 26.32% 8,463 94,508 59,921 63.40%
LA-19 Sardar Aamir Altaf Khan PML(N) 13,413 25.69% Saood bin Sadiq PPP 12,517 23.97% 896 85,778 52,221 60.88%
LA-20 Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan PPP 11,925 32.98% Abdul Rasheed Khan PML(N) 4,883 13.50% 7,042 64,099 36,162 56.42%
LA-21 Hassan Ibrahim Khan JKPP 8,190 23.46% Tahir Anwar Khan PML(N) 6,198 17.75% 1,992 88,220 34,915 39.58%
LA-22 Shahida Saghir PTI 16,962 38.11% Asad Ibrahim Khan JKPP 10,582 23.77% 6,380 84,676 44,511 52.57%
Sudhnoti LA-23 Sardar Muhammad Hussain Khan PTI 22,519 32.85% Muhammad Najeeb Naqi Khan PML(N) 19,575 28.55% 2,944 107,511 68,561 63.77%
LA-24 Sardar Faheem Akhtar PTI 30,727 47.26% Sardar Farooq Ahmed Tahir PML(N) 24,363 37.40% 6,404 98,539 65,147 66.11%
Neelum LA-25 Shah Ghulam Qadir PML(N) 14,341 33.24% Mian Abdul Waheed PPP 12,400 28.74% 1,941 64,231 43,143 67.17%
LA-26 Mian Abdul Waheed PPP 18,870 44.48% Raja Muhammad Ilyas Khan PTI 13,294 31.34% 5,576 58,970 42,424 71.94%
Muzaffarabad LA-27 Sardar Muhammad Javed PPP 26,441 43.17% Mir Attique ur Rehman PTI 19,677 32.12% 6,674 87,706 61,254 69.84%
LA-28 Syed Bazal Ali Naqvi PPP 26,011 43.32% Chaudhry Shahzad Mehmood PTI 21,873 36.43% 4,138 81,511 60,037 73.66%
LA-29 Khawaja Farooq Ahmed PTI 13,337 30.83% Syed Iftikhar Gillani PML(N) 10,557 24.40% 2,780 63,594 43,263 68.03%
LA-30 Chaudhry Muhammad Rasheed PTI 18,119 44.31% Mustafa Bashir Abbasi PML(N) 10,490 25.65% 7,629 57,030 40,890 71.70%
LA-31 Chaudhry Latif Akbar PPP 22,824 33.56% Saqib Majeed Raja AJKMC 21,481 31.58% 1,343 106,580 68,015 63.82%
Hattian Bala LA-32 Raja Farooq Haider PML(N) 15,598 32.31% Muhammad Ashfaq Zaffar PPP 15,204 31.49% 394 70,865 48,278 68.13%
LA-33 Dewan Ali Khan Chughtai PTI 26,474 54.08% Raja Farooq Haider PML(N) 14,384 29.38% 12,090 67,868 48,953 72.13%
Jammu & Others LA-34 Riaz Ahmed Gujjar PTI 4,320 41.41% Nasir Hussain Dar PML(N) 3,545 33.98% 775 18,542 10,433 56.54%
LA-35 Maqbool Ahmed Gujjar PTI 18,934 41.38% Chaudhry Muhammad Ismail PML(N) 16,855 36.84% 2,079 85,247 45,756 55.43%
LA-36 Hafiz Hamid Raza PTI 22,096 41.30% Muhammad Ishaq PML(N) 20,467 38.26% 1,629 93,804 53,500 57.03%
LA-37 Muhammad Akmal Sargala PTI 26,039 42.11% Muhammad Siddique Chaudhry PML(N) 25,726 41.61% 313 95,694 61,833 64.62%
LA-38 Muhammad Akbar Chaudhry PTI 14,283 40.18% Zeeshan Ali PML(N) 8,755 30.76% 5,528 48,504 28,461 58.68%
LA-39 Raja Muhammad Siddqiue PML(N) 9,557 42.69% Nazia Niaz PTI 7,510 33.54% 2,047 36,455 22,389 61.42%
Kashmir Valley LA-40 Aamir Abdul Ghaffar Lone PPP 2,165 61.73% Muhammad Saleem Butt PTI 875 24.95% 1,290 5,327 3,507 65.83%
LA-41 Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Diwan PTI 2,326 70.61% Muhammad Ikram Butt PML(N) 741 22.50% 1,585 5,050 3,294 66.23%
LA-42 Muhammad Asim Sharif PTI 1,254 43.86% Syed Shoukat Ali Shah PML(N) 1,205 42.15% 49 4,461 2,859 64.09%
LA-43 Javed Butt PTI 782 43.66% Naseema Khatoon Wani PML(N) 720 40.20% 62 2,457 1,791 72.89%
LA-44 Muhammad Ahmad Raza Qadri PML(N) 2,027 44.72% Mehr un Nisa AJKMC 1,195 26.36% 832 6,340 4,533 71.50%
LA-45 Abdul Majid Khan PTI 3,138 57.10% Abdul Nasir Khan IND 2,063 37.54% 1,075 6,951 5,496 79.07%

See also

References

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