General elections were held in Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

 on 10 October 2002 during the military regime of Pervez Musharraf

Pervez Musharraf

Pervez Musharraf , is a retired four-star general who served as the 13th Chief of Army Staff and tenth President of Pakistan as well as tenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. Musharraf headed and led an administrative military government from October 1999 till August 2007. He ruled...

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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

Summary of the October 2002 National Assembly

National Assembly of Pakistan

The National Assembly of Pakistan is the lower house of the bicameral Majlis-e-Shura, which also compromises the President of Pakistan and Senate . The National Assembly and the Senate both convene at Parliament House in Islamabad...

 elections

Elections in Pakistan

At the national level, Pakistan elects a bicameral legislature, the Parliament of Pakistan, which consists of a directly elected National Assembly of Pakistan and a Senate, whose members are chosen by elected provincial legislators. The Prime Minister of Pakistan is elected by the National Assembly...

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|align=left valign=top|Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam)

Pakistan Muslim League (Q)

The Pakistan Muslim League or officially Pakistan Muslim League is a centrist, modern political party in Pakistan. The present form of PML-Q was formed prior to 2002 general elections....

|valign="top"|25.7
|valign="top"|126
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|align=left valign=top|Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians

Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians

The Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians is a party created by Ameen Faheem. The party is an electoral extension of the Pakistan Peoples Party....

|valign="top"|25.8
|valign="top"|81
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|align=left valign=top|Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal Pakistan

Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal

Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal is a coalition of Islamist parties that was formed in 2002 to electorally challenge the Pakistan Parliament's incumbent parties...

• Jamaat-e-Islami
  Jamaat-e-Islami
  This article is about Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan. For other organizations of similar name see Jamaat-e-Islami The Jamaat-e-Islami , is a Pro-Muslim political party in Pakistan...
  
  Pakistan (Islamic Assembly)
• Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
  Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
  The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam is a political party in Pakistan. It formed a combined government in national elections in 2002 and 2008...
  
   (Assembly of Islamic Clergy)
• Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan
  Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan
  The Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan is a political party in Pakistan. It is part of the Islamic Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, that won at the last legislative elections, 20 October 2002, 11.3 of the popular vote and 53 out of 272 elected members.This party belongs to the Sunni current, which in...
  
   (Assembly of Pakistani Clergy)
• Tehrik-e-Jafaria Pakistan (Movement for Islam)
• Jamiat Ahle Hadith
  Jamiat Ahle Hadith
  Jamiat Ahle Hadith is a religio-political party in Pakistan promoting the Ahle Hadees religious movement. It is part of the Islamic fundamentalist Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, that won at the last legislative elections, 20 October 2002 with 11.3 percent of the popular vote...
  
   (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)

Pakistan Muslim League (N)

The Pakistan Muslim League is a conservative political party in Pakistan, affiliated with Western conservatism...

|valign="top"|9.4
|valign="top"|19
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|align=left valign=top|Muttahida Qaumi Movement

Muttahida Qaumi Movement

Muttahida Qaumi Movement generally known as MQM, is a liberal-secular political party of Pakistan. It is generally known as a party which holds immense mobilizing potential in province of Sindh...

|valign="top"|3.1
|valign="top"|17
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|align=left valign=top|National Alliance

National Alliance (Pakistan)

The National Alliance was a coalition of Millat Party, Sindh Democratic Alliance, National Peoples Party, and Sindh National Front in Pakistan. It was headed by former Pakistani Prime Minister Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, who was also the head of his own National Peoples Party .At the 2002 legislative...

• Sindh Democratic Alliance
  Sindh Democratic Alliance
  The Sindh Democratic Alliance was a regional political party in Pakistan. The party was created by the bureaucrat-turned-politician Imtiaz Shaikh in mid-2001. He was formerly a right-hand man of Jam Sadiq Ali, who was the Chief Minister of Sindh from 1990 to until he was murdered in 1992. At the...
  
  
• Millat Party
  Millat Party
  The Millat Party was a political party in Pakistan, formed by Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari, former president of Pakistan, once he was no longer the president, and needed a platform to survive politically. He had the money to start a small-scale party. Because of his support to the...
  
  
• National Peoples Party
  National Peoples Party
  The National Peoples Party is a political party in Pakistan most active in the province of Sindh and southern parts of Punjab. It was founded in 1986 by Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi after falling out with Benazir Bhutto and leaving her Pakistan Peoples Party.In the 2008 Pakistani general elections the...
  
  
• Sindh National Front
  Sindh National Front
  Sindh National Front is a political party in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. It is currently led by Mumtaz Bhutto, the cousin of Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan, who was hanged by the regime of Zia-ul-Haq....
  
  

|valign="top"|4.6
|valign="top"|16
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|align=left valign=top|Pakistan Muslim League (Functional Group)

Pakistan Muslim League (F)

The Pakistan Muslim League is a political party in Pakistan. It is one of the factions of the original Pakistan Muslim League. The letter 'F' in its name stands for functional. It is primarily associated with the Sindhi religious leader Pir Pagara...

|valign="top"|1.1
|valign="top"|5
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|align=left valign=top|Pakistan Muslim League (Junejo)

Pakistan Muslim League (J)

The Pakistan Muslim League was a political party in Pakistan established in 1993. It merged with PML-Q in 2004.It is one of the factions of the original Pakistan Muslim League, named "J" after 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

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is "Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem".-Founding:...

|valign="top"|0.8
|valign="top"|1
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|align=left valign=top|Pakistan Awami Tehreek (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)

Pakistan Muslim League (Z)

Pakistan Muslim League Pakistan Muslim League (Zia-ul-Haq Shaheed) Pakistan Muslim League (Zia-ul-Haq Shaheed) (Urdu: (پاکستان مسلم لیگ (ض) is a right-wing political party in Pakistan formed in 2002. It is one of the factions of the original Pakistan Muslim League, named after General Muhammad...

|valign="top"|0.3
|valign="top"|1
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|align=left valign=top|Pakistan Democratic Party

Pakistan Democratic Party

The Pakistan Democratic Party is a political party in Pakistan.At the last legislative elections, 20 October 2002, the party won 0.3% of the popular vote and 1 out of 272 elected members....

|valign="top"|0.3
|valign="top"|1
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|align=left valign=top|Balochistan National Party

Balochistan National Party

The Balochistan National Party or Balochistan National Party is a political party in Balochistan, Pakistan...

|valign="top"|0.2
|valign="top"|1
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|align=left valign=top|Awami National Party

Awami National Party

The Awami National Party is an Pashtun nationalist, socialist, centre-left political party in Pakistan affiliated with Socialist International...

|valign="top"|1.0
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|align=left valign=top|Pakhtun-khwa Milli Awami Party

Pakhtun-khwa Milli Awami Party

Pukhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party / ) is a Pashtun democratic political party in Pakistan. The moto of PkMAP is to unite Pushtuns of Balochistan, Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pukhtunkhwa provinces of Pakistan.Mahmood Khan Achakzai is the current party chairman...

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|align=left valign=top|Independents
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|valign="top"|3
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|align=left valign=top|Non-partisans (most joined one of the above parties)
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|valign="top"|21^*
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|align=left valign=top|Female elected members (included in party seats above)
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|valign="top"|60^*
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|align=left valign=top|Minorities (included in party seats above)
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|valign="top"|10^*
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|align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 41.8 %)
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|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|342
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|align=left colspan=4|Source: Pakistan Electoral Commission & CIA Factbook
Not included in total. Except for three independents, most of these are included in the party-seat numbers
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