2021 Azad Kashmir general election

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All 53 seats in the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly 27 seats needed for a majority
Registered	3,220,793
Turnout	61.30% (0.90%)
First party Second party   Leader Abdul Qayyum Khan Niazi Chaudhry Latif Akbar Party PTI PPP Leader's seat Poonch & Sudhnoti-I Muzaffarabad-V Last election 2 seats, 12.7% 4 seats, 21.2% Seats won 32 12 Seat change 30 8 Popular vote 613,590 349,895 Percentage 31.4% 17.9% Swing 18.7pp 3.3pp   Third party Fourth party   Leader Raja Farooq Haider Attique Ahmed Khan Party PML(N) AJKMC Leader's seat Muzaffarabad-VI Muzaffarabad-VII (lost) Bagh-I Last election 36 seats, 44.4% 3 seats, 10.3% Seats won 7 1 Seat change 29 2 Popular vote 491,091 153,861 Percentage 25.1% 7.9% Swing 19.3pp 2.4pp
Map of Azad Kashmir showing Assembly Constituencies
Prime Minister before election Raja Farooq Haider PML(N) Elected Prime Minister Abdul Qayyum Khan Niazi PTI

General elections were held in Azad Kashmir on 25 July 2021 after the expiry of the 5-year term of the previous Legislative Assembly.^[1] The elections were held in 33 constituencies of Azad Kashmir and 12 constituencies of the refugees of Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan.^[2]

By an early estimate, over 2.82 million people of Azad Kashmir were registered to vote; of which 1.59 million were male voters, while 1.30 million were female voters.^[3] By the time of the election, the number of registered voters had increased to 3,220,793.^[4]

A total of 724 candidates stood for 45 general seats this year. 579 candidates competed for the 33 constituencies within Azad Kashmir, while the remaining 145 competed for the 12 refugee constituencies in Pakistan.^[5]

Background

In current elections The PTI won 26, the PPP 11 and PML N 6. In addition, AJ&K MC won 1 seats, JK PPP 1 seat.

Following these results, Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf was able to form a comfortable majority government, controlling 26 general seats and 6 reserved/technocrat seats, giving them 32 out of the 53 seats in the assembly.

Addition of new seats

4 new seats were added in Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly. Muzaffarabad, Neelum, Sudhanoti/Poonch and Kotli districts gained an additional seats each, hence, the number of members in the Assembly of Azad Kashmir was elevated from 49 to 53. Therefore the new amount of seats needed for a majority became 27.^[6][7]

Results

The polls were open across Azad Kashmir and Pakistan from 8:00 to 17:00 PST. The results of started to pour in after poll closings in the evening. The below table shows election results by political party.^[8]

Party		Votes	%	Seats
				General	Women	Ulema Technocrat and Overseas	Total	Change
	Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf	613,590	31.35	26	3	3	32	30
	Pakistan Peoples Party	349,895	17.88	11	1	0	12	9
	Pakistan Muslim League (N)	491,091	25.09	6	1	0	7	24
	All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference	153,861	7.86	1	0	0	1	2
	Jammu Kashmir Peoples Party	119,048	6.08	1	0	0	1	1
	Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan	96,697	4.94	0	0	0	0
	Independents	133,136	6.80	0	0	0	0
Total		1,957,318	100.00	45	5	3	53	4
Valid votes		1,957,318	99.14
Invalid/blank votes		17,000	0.86
Total votes		1,974,318	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		3,220,793	61.30
Source: EC-AJK (Party Positions), [citation needed] (everything else)

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