Parliamentary elections in Pakistan 2013
The 2013 parliamentary elections in Pakistan took place on May 11, 2013. The 342 MPs of the Pakistani National Assembly and the parliamentary assemblies of the provinces of Punjab , Sindh , Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (the former "Northwest Province") were elected.
background
The elections were the first parliamentary elections in Pakistan's history to replace an elected government with regular elections after the full 5 years of its term in office (since the 2008 election ). All of the previous elected governments had either not lasted that long or were ousted by military coups. The number of registered voters was about 86.19 million. In the election campaign there were essentially three major political groups facing each other. On the one hand the socialist-oriented Pakistani People's Party ( Pakistan Peoples Party , PPP) together with its allied Pakistani Muslim League (Q) ( Pakistan Muslim League (Q) , 'Q' for "Quaid e Azam"), a nationalist party of the middle class Spectrum. Second, in the area of the conservative spectrum, the Pakistani Muslim League (N) ( Pakistan Muslim League (N) , 'N' for Nawaz (Sharif) ), allied with the Sunni Tehreek , a radical Sunni Islamist party with decidedly anti-Christian and anti-Shiite goals. And third, the more middle-class political parties Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf , Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslims (a moderate Islamic modernist Shiite party), Jamaat-e-Islami (a conservative Islamist party) and the political Movement of the Nawab Salahuddin Abbasi .
Result
| Political party | boss | be right | % | general seats | reserved for women | reserved for minorities | Total seats |
Result 2008 (share of votes / MPs) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muslim League of Pakistan (N) | Nawaz Sharif | 14.874.104 | 32.8 | 126 | 34 | 6th | 166 | 19.6% and 91 | |
| Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf | Imran Khan | 7,679,954 | 16.9 | 28 | 6th | 1 | 35 | boycott | |
| Pakistani People's Party | Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Asif Ali Zardari | 6,911,218 | 15.2 | 33 | 8th | 1 | 42 | 30.6% and 124 | |
| Muttahida Qaumi Movement | Altaf Hussain | 2,456,153 | 5.4 | 18th | 4th | 1 | 23 | 7.4% and 25 | |
| Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) | Fazal-ur-Rehman | 1,461,371 | 3.2 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 15th | 2.2% and 7 | |
| Muslim League of Pakistan (Q) | Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain | 1,409,905 | 3.1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 23.0% and 54 | |
| Muslim League of Pakistan (F) | Pir Pagara | 1,072,846 | 2.4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6th | 1.9% and 5 | |
| Jamaat-e-Islami | Syed Munawar Hasan | 963.909 | 2.1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4th | boycott | |
| Awami National Party | Asfandyar Wali Khan | 453.057 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.0% and 13 | |
| Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party | Mahmood Khan Achakzai | 214,631 | 0.5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4th | boycott | |
| National People's Party | Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi | 197,829 | 0.4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0.4% and 1 | |
| Others | 2,010,598 | 4.4 | 7th | 0 | 0 | 7th | |||
| Independent | 5,880,658 | 13.0 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 27 | |||
| total | Turnout 55.0% | 45.388.404 | 100.0 | 272 | 60 | 10 | 342 | ||
Swell:
- Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) - Election Commission of Pakistan - number of votes (PDF; 56 kB)
- ECP - number of seats (PDF; 39 kB)
Web links
- Hannes Ebert, Ishtiaq Ahmad: After the elections in Pakistan. Nawaz Sharif promises a new course in India. GIGA Focus Asia, No. 6/2013
- Teresa Eder: Election campaigns with death on the neck. In: The Standard . May 8, 2013, accessed on May 8, 2013 (report on the situation shortly before the elections).
Individual evidence
