Pakistani general election, 2002

General elections were held in Pakistan on 10 October 2002 during the military regime of Pervez Musharraf [http://www.storyofpakistan.com/articletext.asp?artid=A148 General Elections 2002 - The Story of Pakistan] ] .

Parties and candidates

More than 70 parties, contested the election, the main parties were the Peoples Party Parliamentarians, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Group, Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM), Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-i-Azam also called the "King's Party" for its unconditional support to the government, and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), alliance of six religious political parties. Other known parties contesting at the national level included the six-party National Alliance led by former caretaker Prime Minister Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf and Tahir-ul-Qadri's Pakistan Awami Tehrik.

Results

electiontable|Pakistan legislative election, 2002"'Summary of the October 2002 National Assembly elections
-!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left valign=top
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% of popular vote!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Seats
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align=left valign=top|Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam)
valign="top"|25.7
valign="top"|126
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align=left valign=top|Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians
valign="top"|25.8
valign="top"|81
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align=left valign=top|Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal Pakistan
*Jamaat-e-IslamiPakistan (Islamic Assembly)
*Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Assembly of Islamic Clergy)
*Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (Assembly of Pakistani Clergy)
*Tehrik-e-Jafaria Pakistan (Movement for Islam)
*Jamiat Ahle Hadith (Assembly of followers of way of the prophet)
valign="top"|11.3
valign="top"|63
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align=left valign=top|Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz Sharif)
valign="top"|9.4
valign="top"|19
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align=left valign=top|Muttahida Qaumi Movement
valign="top"|3.1
valign="top"|17
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align=left valign=top|National Alliance
*Sindh Democratic Alliance
*Millat Party
*National Peoples Party
*Sindh National Front
valign="top"|4.6
valign="top"|16
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align=left valign=top|Pakistan Muslim League (Functional Group)
valign="top"|1.1
valign="top"|5
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align=left valign=top|Pakistan Muslim League (Junejo)
valign="top"|0.7
valign="top"|3
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align=left valign=top|Pakistan Peoples Party (Sherpao)
valign="top"|0.3
valign="top"|2
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align=left valign=top|Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
valign="top"|0.8
valign="top"|1
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align=left valign=top|Pakistan Awami Tehrik (Pakistan People's Movement}
valign="top"|0.7
valign="top"|1
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align=left valign=top|Jamhoori Wattan Party (Republican National Party)
valign="top"|0.3
valign="top"|1
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align=left valign=top|Pakistan Muslim League (Zia-ul-Haq Shaheed)
valign="top"|0.3
valign="top"|1
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align=left valign=top|Pakistan Democratic Party
valign="top"|0.3
valign="top"|1
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align=left valign=top|Balochistan National Party
valign="top"|0.2
valign="top"|1
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align=left valign=top|Awami National Party
valign="top"|1.0
valign="top"|-
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align=left valign=top|Pakhtun-khwa Milli Awami Party
valign="top"|-
valign="top"|1
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align=left valign=top|Independents
valign="top"|-
valign="top"|3
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align=left valign=top|Non-partisans (most joined one of the above parties)
valign="top"|14.1
valign="top"|"21"^*
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align=left valign=top|Female elected members (included in party seats above)
valign="top"|.
valign="top"|"60"^*
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align=left valign=top|Minorities (included in party seats above)
valign="top"|.
valign="top"|"10"^*
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align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 41.8 %)
width="99" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|342
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align=left colspan=4|Source: Pakistan Electoral Commission & [https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2101.html CIA Factbook] Not included in total. Except for three independents, most of these are included in the party-seat numbers

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