2001 Azad Kashmiri general election

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2001 Azad Kashmir general election
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  1996 5 July 2001 2006  
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
Party PPP PML(N) MC
Seats won24104

 Fourth partyFifth party
 
Party Jamaat-i-Islami Independents
Seats won12

Prime Minister before election

Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry
PPP

Elected Prime Minister

Sikandar Hayat Khan
AJKMC

General elections were held in Azad Kashmir on 5 July 2001 to elect the members of seventh assembly of Azad Kashmir. [1]

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References

  1. "Azad Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly". Archived from the original on 30 December 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2017.