Approximately 128 million voters registered to vote in national and state elections despite continuing political and economic challenges.
Pakistan is counting votes in a general election marred by insurgent violence and the outage of mobile phone services. She registered more than 128 million people to elect members of Congress and the country's four state legislatures.
Results will be displayed below as they become available.
How voting works in Pakistan
Each voter can cast two votes. One vote goes to the National Assembly, and he votes one vote to the local assembly.
The National Assembly consists of 336 members, of which 266 are decided by direct vote, with 60 seats reserved for women and 10 for minorities, allocated on the basis of 5 percent proportional representation in the Bundestag. Masu.
A party or coalition needs 134 seats to form a government.
Breakdown of national seats
The procedure for dividing electoral districts was carried out based on the results of the 2023 national census. The boundaries of many electoral districts were changed, reducing the number of seats from 272 to 266.
- Punjab: 141 seats
- Sindh: 61 seats
- Khyber Pakhtankhwa: 45 seats
- Balochistan: 16 seats
- Islamabad Capital Region: 3 seats
Who are the likely candidates to be Pakistan's next prime minister?
The crackdown on the main opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and its leader, former Prime Minister Imran Khan, has heightened fears that the polls will not be free and fair. The country's major political parties are:
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN)
Nawaz Sharif, a three-time prime minister, returned to Pakistan for the first time in four years at the end of 2023 to assume the role of party leader. Several corruption cases that led to the prime minister's ouster in 2017 have since been dropped. His younger brother Shehbaz Sharif also briefly served as prime minister, working with the main opposition parties to remove Khan from office in April 2022. It is unclear which brother will become prime minister if the PMLN forms a government, but Nawaz is likely to become prime minister. Hold the string in either direction.
- Seats won in 2018: 64
- Seats won in 2013: 126
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is a descendant of the Bhutto dynasty. He will lead the party after Khan was removed as prime minister in 2022, after briefly serving as foreign minister. One of the youngest mainstream politicians, his campaign focuses on climate change, economic gender equality and the pursuit of civility among citizens. party. His grandfather Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his mother Benazir Bhutto ruled the country as prime ministers, and his father Asif Ali Zardari served as Pakistan's president from 2008 to 2013.
- Seats won in 2018: 43
- Seats won in 2013: 34
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)
Imran Khan, a cricketer turned politician, is the leader of the opposition PTI party. He is currently in prison for cases related to corruption and leaking state secrets. He led protests against the powerful military after his ouster in 2022, but was found guilty in a corruption case and disqualified from his candidacy. The party has ruled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province for the past 10 years and the country's most influential province, Punjab, for most of the past five years.
- Seats won in 2018: 116
- Seats won in 2013: 28