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24 of the 33 seats in the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly [b] 17 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 745,362 [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 48.12% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Gilgit Baltistan Assembly Constituencies and winning parties | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly elections were held on 15 November 2020. [3] [4] [5] [6] Elections were held in 24 constituencies, each electing one member to the 3rd Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly. [7] [8] 330 candidates contested these elections, [9] either representing one of the political parties of Gilgit-Baltistan [9] (at the time of the 2020 elections) or being an independent candidate.
Contents
- Background
- 2015 elections
- Timeline
- Parties
- Opinion Polls
- Voting Intention
- Results
- Provincewide
- By Constituency
- Notes
- References
The elections were originally scheduled to be held on 18 August 2020, [10] [11] but were postponed in July [12] [13] due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which severely affected Gilgit-Baltistan.
The Pakistan Army was not called in to preside over the polls at the Election, with Mir Afzal, the Caretaker Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan, giving a statement that the caretaker government had the capacity to hold free, fair, and transparent elections in Gilgit-Baltistan. [14] [15]
Opinion polling taken before the election had shown the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), the ruling party prior to the 2020 election, being the third-most-popular political party in Gilgit-Baltistan, falling from its earlier position of making the province's government and having the largest vote-bank. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, which ruled nationally, led in the polls and the Pakistan Peoples Party had been shown as the second-most-popular political party.
745,362 voters in Gilgit-Baltistan had the ability to exercise their right to vote in the elections and will be able to vote across nearly 1,234 polling places across the province. This showed an increase of 126,998 new voters since 2015, when only 618,364 people were registered to vote. 405,365 of the people registered to vote are male and 339,997 are female (which shows a gender gap of 9%). [2] [16] [17]
The elections were postponed in the constituency GBA-3 (Gilgit-III), due to the PTI candidate in that constituency, who was the provincial party leader, dying of COVID-19 in early October. The election there were held on November 22, seven days after the election throughout the rest of Gilgit-Baltistan. [18] [1]
Preliminary and unofficial results showed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf being all set to form the next government in Gilgit-Baltistan. They had won eleven general seats, Independent politicians had won seven seats, the Pakistan Peoples Party had won three seats, the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) had won two seats, and the Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen had won one seat.
In late November 2020, the final results revealed that the PTI won a two-thirds majority of seats (22 of 33). The PPP and PML-N won five and three seats, respectively. [19] [20]
Full results by districts were published on November 24. The latter two parties made claims of election fraud and supporters staged demonstrations to protest against the alleged rigging. [21]
