2016 Azad Kashmiri general election
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41 of the 49 seats in the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly 25 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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General elections were held in Azad Kashmir on 21 July 2016 to elect 41 members of the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly. Polling started at 8:00am and continued till 5:00pm without any break.
Campaign[]
At least 423 candidates ran for the 41 seats, the main competition being between the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference (MC) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).[1]
A total number of 5,427 polling stations were set up for the election.[1]
Results[]
A total of 2,674,586 people were registered to vote in the elections, of which 1,190,839 were female and 1,483,747 male.[2]
The PML-N won 31, the PPP three and PTI two. In addition, AJ&K MC won 3 seats, JK PPP one seat and one seat was won by an independent.[3]
Following these results, Pakistan Muslim League (N) was able to form a comfortable majority government, with Raja Farooq Haider as Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir, controlling 31 general seats and 6 reserved/technocrat seats, giving them 37 out of the 49 seats in the assembly.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ a b "Polling for Azad Kashmir elections underway - Pakistan - Dunya News". dunyanews.tv. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
- ^ "Polling for Azad Kashmir elections underway". Dunya News. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
- ^ "Azad Kashmir Election Results 2016 with Complete List of Candidates". Paki Mag. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
- 2016 elections in Pakistan
- Elections in Azad Kashmir
- Azad Kashmir stubs