Explanation

About By-elections of November 2025

Winner: PML-N (12 seats)

Note: PML-N lost a provincial seat in Muzaffargarh

Punjab Assembly seat from Muzaffargarh won by PPP.

Boycotted by PTI.

NA seats: 6

Punjab Seats: 7

Held on 23 November 2025

Explanation

Sikandar Sultan Raja appointed CEC: 27 January 2020

Sikandar Sultan Raja: first retired bureaucrat to have ever been appointed as the head of the top electoral body

Previously, Sardar Muhammad Raza was CEC (retired on December 5, 2019)

NA23-7-2023

Explanation

The first-ever general elections were held on 7th December 1970.

Yahya Khan issued a Legal Framework Order for the first general elections.

300 of the 313 seats in the National Assembly

of which 162 were in East Pakistan and 138 in West Pakistan.

A further thirteen seats were reserved for women (seven of which were in East Pakistan and six of which were in West Pakistan)

Explanation

In the 1970 general elections in East Pakistan, Mujibur Rahman's Awami League swept to a decisive victory.

His party won 160 out of 162 seats in East Pakistan, which gave them a clear majority in the overall National Assembly of Pakistan. 

Explanation

Pakistan's second Presidential Elections were held on 2 January 1965.

There were four candidates: Ayub Khan, Fatima Jinnah and two obscure people with no party affiliation.