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Pakistan General Elections

August 1 , 2018 2181 days 823 0
  • Cricket star Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party won 116 of 269 seats in the National Assembly
  • Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party emerged as the winner of Pakistan’s historic third consecutive election of a civilian government.
  • But It didn’t win an outright majority and must form a coalition.
  • At the provincial level,
    • The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N) remained the largest party in Punjab,
    • The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP),
    • Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in Sindh and
    • Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) in Balochistan.
  • A party or group can only form the government if it manages to clinch 172 seats in total.
  • Shahbaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League won 64 seats.
  • Third place in the National Assembly went to the left-of-center Pakistan People’s party with 39 seats.

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