Pakistani general election, 2018

Pakistani general election, 2018

2018

All 342 seats in the National Assembly 172 seats needed for a majority   First party Second party Third party   Leader Nawaz Sharif Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Imran Khan Party PML (N) PPP PTI Leader since 16 November 1988 30 December 2007[1] 25 April 1996 Leader's seat NA-120 Lahore NA-56 Rawalpindi

Prime Minister before election Nawaz Sharif PML (N) Prime Minister TBD TBD

General elections are scheduled to be held in Pakistan any time within the 90 days after 05 June, 2018.^[2]

Electoral system

The 342 members of the National Assembly are elected by three methods; 272 are elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting; 60 are reserved for females and 10 for ethnic and religious minority groups; both sets of reserved seats use proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold.^[3]

References

Elections and referendums in Pakistan
General elections	1920¹ 1923¹ 1926¹ 1930¹ 1934¹ 1945¹ 1970 1977 1985 1988 1990 1993 1997 2002 2008 2013 2018
Senate elections	2006 2009 2012 2015 2018
Regional elections	1937 1946 1951 1953 1954
Referendums	1960 1984 2002
¹ As part of British India