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Next Pakistani general election

← 2018

on or before 12 October 2023

← outgoing members

All 342 seats in the National Assembly
172 seats needed for a majority


Leader	Imran Khan	Shehbaz Sharif	Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Party	PTI	PML(N)	PPP
Leader since	25 April 1996	6 March 2018	30 December 2007
Last election	149 seats, 31.82%	82 seats, 24.35%	54 seats, 13.03%
Seats needed	23	90	118

Incumbent Prime Minister

Imran Khan
PTI

General elections are scheduled to be held in Pakistan less than 60 days after the dissolution of the National Assembly, which is set to dissolve on 13 August 2023, unless dissolved earlier: in which case the election shall be held 90 days after dissolution. This means that the election must be held by or before 12 October 2023.

Background

2018 elections

Further information: Pakistani general election, 2018 § Results

Following the elections in 2018, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf led by former cricket captain of the Pakistan national cricket team Imran Khan emerged as the largest party, winning 149 out of a total of 342 seats in the National Assembly of Pakistan. Despite beung short of a majority, Independents and smaller parties such as the MQM-P helped Khan to form a government.

During the election campaign, Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML (N)) led by former Chief Minister of Punjab Shehbaz Sharif campaigned on a platform of being “victimised by hidden forces”. Despite opinion polls close to the election showing a close contest, the actual result of the election showed the PTI with a lead of over 50 seats on the PML-N in the directly elected seats, and also gave it a lead of around 7.5 percentage points, despite polls saying it only had up to a 4-point lead. The party was deprived of the chance of forming a government in Punjab, a province seen as it’s stronghold.

Most parties apart from the PTI cried foul at the result and claimed that it was rigged.

Electoral system

The 342 seats of the National Assembly consist of 272 elected by first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies, 60 seats are reserved for women and 10 for minority groups. The reserved seats are elected by proportional representation based on the national vote share in the single-member constituencies with a 5% electoral threshold.

References

v t e Elections and referendums in Pakistan
General elections	1920¹ 1923¹ 1926¹ 1930¹ 1934¹ 1945¹ 1962 1965 1970 1977 1985 1988 1990 1993 1997 2002 2008 2013 2018 2024 Next
Provincial elections	1937¹ 1946¹ 1951 1953 1954 1962 1965 1970 1975 1977 1985 1988 1990 1991 1993 1996 1997 2001 2002 2006 2008 2009 2011 2013 2015 2016 2018 2019 2020 2024
Referendums	1960 1984 2002
By-elections	2013 2018 2022 2024
¹ As part of British India See also: Elections in Azad Kashmir Balochistan Gilgit-Baltistan Punjab Sindh

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