Pakistani general election, 1970
- Pakistani general election, 1970
The first General elections were held in Pakistan in 1970 during the Military regime of Yahya Khan. The polls in East Pakistan, originally scheduled for October, were delayed by disastrous floods and rescheduled for December, and in some cases, January 1971.
Parties and Candidates
Twenty-four political parties ran in the elections. A total of 1,957 candidates filed nomination papers for 300 National Assembly seats. After scrutiny and withdrawals, 1,579 eventually contested the elections. The Awami League ran 170 candidates, of which 162 were for constituencies in East Pakistan. Jamaat-e-Islami had the second-highest number of candidates with 151. The Pakistan Peoples Party ran only 120 candidates, of which 103 were from constituencies in the Punjab and Sindh, and none in East Pakistan. The PML (Convention) ran 124 candidates, the PML (Council) 119 and the PML (Qayyum) 133.
The government claimed a high level of public participation and a voter turnout of almost 63%. The total number of registered voters in the country was 56,941,500 out of which 31,211,220 were from the Eastern Wing, while 25,730,280 from the Western Wing.
Results
[(Source G.W.Choudhury (1974) The last days of United Pakistan p128-129)]
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