1970 Pakistani general election#Aftermath

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{{Infobox election

| country = Pakistan

| type = parliamentary

| previous_year = 1965

| next_year = 1977

| seats_for_election = 300 of the 313 seats in the National Assembly

| majority_seats = 151

| election_date = {{nowrap|7 December 1970}}

| registered = 56,941,500

| turnout = 57.96%

| image1 = Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1950.jpg

| leader1 = Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

| party1 = All-Pakistan Awami League

| popular_vote1 = 12,937,162

| percentage1 = 39.20%

| seats1 = 167

| image2 = Zulfikar Ali Bhutto 1971.jpg

| leader2 = Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

| party2 = Pakistan Peoples Party

| seats2 = 86

| popular_vote2 = 6,148,923

| percentage2 = 18.63%

| title = Head of government

| posttitle = Prime Minister

| before_election = Yahya Khan

| before_party = Martial law

| after_election = Nurul Amin

| after_party = Pakistan Democratic Party

| map_image = Pakistan 1970.png

| map_caption = Results by constituency

}}

{{Independence of Bangladesh}}

{{History of Bangladesh}}

General elections were held in Pakistan on 7 December 1970 to elect members of the National Assembly. They were the first direct general elections since the independence of Pakistan and ultimately the only ones held prior to the independence of Bangladesh. Voting took place in 300 general constituencies, 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), who were to be elected by members of the National Assembly.{{Cite journal |author=Craig Baxter |author-link=Craig Baxter |date=1971 |title=Pakistan Votes -- 1970 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3024655 |journal=Asian Survey |volume=11 |issue=3 |pages=197–218 |doi=10.2307/3024655 |jstor=3024655 |issn=0004-4687|url-access=subscription }}

The elections were a fierce contest between two social democratic parties, the west-based Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the east-based All-Pakistan Awami League. The Awami League was the sole major party in the east wing, while in the west wing, the PPP faced severe competition from the conservative factions of Muslim League, the largest of which was Muslim League (Qayyum), as well as Islamist parties like Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP).

The result was a victory for the Awami League, which gained an absolute majority, winning 160 of the 162 general seats and all seven women's seats in East Pakistan. The PPP won only 81 general seats and five women's seats, all in West Pakistan. In the provincial elections held ten days later, the Awami League again dominated in East Pakistan, while the PPP were the winning party in Punjab and Sindh. The Marxist National Awami Party emerged victorious in Northwest Frontier Province and Balochistan.

The National Assembly was initially not inaugurated as President Yahya Khan and the PPP chairman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto did not want a party from East Pakistan in federal government.{{cite news |title=1970 polls: When election results created a storm |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/686541/1970-polls-when-election-results-created-a-storm |work=Dawn |date=8 January 2012}} Instead, Yahya appointed the veteran Bengali politician Nurul Amin as Prime Minister, asking him to reach a compromise between the PPP and Awami League. However, this move failed as the delay in inauguration had already caused significant unrest in East Pakistan. The situation deteriorated further when Operation Searchlight occurred under the orders of Yahya resulting in a civil war that led to the formation of the independent state of Bangladesh.{{cite news |title=History: Bhutto, Mujib and the generals |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1392750 |work=Dawn |date=4 May 2019}} The Assembly was eventually inaugurated in 1972 after Yahya resigned and handed power to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Bhutto became Prime Minister in 1973 after the post was recreated by a new constitution.

Background

On 23 March 1956 Pakistan changed from being a Dominion of the British Commonwealth and became an Islamic republic after framing its own constitution. Although the first general elections were scheduled for early 1959, severe political instability led President Iskander Mirza to abrogate the constitution on 7 October 1958. Mirza imposed martial law and handed power to the Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army, General Muhammad Ayub Khan. After assuming presidency, President Ayub Khan promoted himself to the rank of Field marshal and appointed General Muhammad Musa Khan as the new Commander-in-Chief.

On 17 February 1960 President Ayub Khan appointed a commission under Muhammad Shahabuddin, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, to report a political framework for the country. The commission submitted its report on 29 April 1961 and, on the basis of this report, a new constitution was framed on 1 March 1962. The new constitution declared the country the Republic of Pakistan and brought about a presidential system of government, replacing the parliamentary system of the 1956 constitution. The electoral system was made indirect, and the "basic democrats" were declared electoral college for the purpose of electing members of the National and Provincial Assemblies. Under the new system, presidential elections were held on 2 January 1965 which resulted in a victory for Ayub Khan. As years went by, political opposition against President Ayub Khan mounted. In East Pakistan, leader of the Awami League, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was one of the key leaders to rally opposition to President Ayub Khan. In 1966, he began the Six point movement for East Pakistani autonomy.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

In 1968 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was charged with sedition after the government of President Ayub Khan accused him for conspiring with India against the stability of Pakistan.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb |url-access=registration |title=Pakistan: A Modern History |author=Ian Talbot |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-312-21606-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb/page/190 190]}} While a conspiracy between Mujib and India for East Pakistan's secession was not itself conclusively proven,{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb |url-access=registration |title=Pakistan: A Modern History |author=Ian Talbot |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-312-21606-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb/page/193 193] |quote=The Agartala contacts however did not provide solid evidence of a Mujib-India secessionist conspiracy in East Pakistan}} it is known that Mujib and the Awami League had held secret meetings with Indian government officials in 1962 and after the 1965 war.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb |url-access=registration |title=Pakistan: A Modern History |author=Ian Talbot |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-312-21606-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb/page/190 190] |quote=It is now clear that Mujib did hold secret discussions with local Indian leaders there in July 1962. Moreover, following the 1965 war there were meetings between Awami League leaders and representatives of the Indian Government at a number of secret locations.}} This case led to an uprising in East Pakistan which consisted of a series of mass demonstrations and sporadic conflicts between the government forces and protesters. In West Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who served as foreign minister under President Ayub Khan, resigned from his office and founded the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in 1967. The socialist political party took up opposition to President Ayub Khan as well.

Ayub Khan succumbed to political pressure on 26 March 1969 and handed power to the Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army, General Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan. President Yahya Khan imposed martial law and the 1962 Constitution was abrogated. On 31 March 1970, President Yahya Khan announced a Legal Framework Order (LFO) which called for direct elections for a unicameral legislature. Many in the West feared the East wing's demand for countrywide provincial autonomy.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb |url-access=registration |title=Pakistan: A Modern History |author=Ian Talbot |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-312-21606-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb/page/193 193] |quote=When this duly arrived. the western wing's nightmare scenario materialised: either a constitutional deadlock, or the imposition in the whole of the country of the Bengalis' longstanding commitment to unfettered democracy and provincial autonomy.}} The purpose of the LFO was to secure the future Constitution which would be written after the election{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb |url-access=registration |title=Pakistan: A Modern History |author=Ian Talbot |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-312-21606-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb/page/193 193] |quote=Yahya had made some provision to safeguard the constitutional outcome through the promulgation of the Legal Framework Order (LFO) on 30 March 1970. It set a deadline of 120 days for the framing of a constitution by the National Assembly and reserved to the President the right to authenticate it.}} so that it would include safeguards such as preserving Pakistan's territorial integrity and Islamic ideology.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb |url-access=registration |title=Pakistan: A Modern History |author=Ian Talbot |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-312-21606-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb/page/194 194] |quote=It would also have to enshrine the following five principles: an Islamic ideology...and internal affairs and the preservation of the territorial integrity of the country}}

The integrated province of West Pakistan formed on 22 November 1954 was abolished and four provinces were retrieved: Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and the North-West Frontier Province. The principles of representation was made on the basis of population, and since East Pakistan had more people than the combined population of the four provinces of West Pakistan, the former got more than half seats in the National Assembly. Yahya Khan ignored reports that Sheikh Mujib planned to disregard the LFO and that India was increasingly interfering in East Pakistan.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb |url-access=registration |title=Pakistan: A Modern History |author=Ian Talbot |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-312-21606-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb/page/194 194] |quote=He also refused to countenance intelligence service reports both of Mujib's aim to tear up the LFO after the elections and establish Bangladesh and of India's growing involvement in the affairs of East Pakistan.}} Nor did he believe that the Awami League would actually sweep the elections in East Pakistan.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb |url-access=registration |title=Pakistan: A Modern History |author=Ian Talbot |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-312-21606-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb/page/193 193] |quote=From November 1969 until the announcement of the national election results, he discounted the possibility of an Awami League landslide in East Pakistan.}}

A month before the elections the Bhola cyclone struck East Pakistan. This was the deadliest tropical cyclone in world history, killing an estimated 250,000-500,000 people. The government was severely criticised for its response to the disaster.

Parties and candidates

The general elections of 1970 are considered one of the fairest and cleanest elections in the history of Pakistan, with about twenty-four political parties taking part. The Awami League, a Bengali nationalist party dominated East Pakistan, while in the West the Pakistan Peoples Party, a leftist and nominally democratic socialist party, was a major power. The Pakistani government supported the pro-Islamic parties since they were committed to strong federalism.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb |url-access=registration |title=Pakistan: A Modern History |author=Ian Talbot |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-312-21606-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb/page/196 196] |quote=The regime also increasingly favoured the Islam pasand (Islam loving) parties because of their conservatism and attachment to the idea of a strong central government}} The Jamaat-e-Islami suspected that the Awami League had secessionist intentions.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb |url-access=registration |title=Pakistan: A Modern History |author=Ian Talbot |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-312-21606-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb/page/196 196] |quote=The JI itself warned that an Awami League victory would mean the disintegration of Pakistan.}}

=Election campaign in East Pakistan=

The continuous public meetings of the Awami League in East Pakistan and the Pakistan Peoples Party in Western Pakistan attracted huge crowds. The Awami League, a Bengali nationalist party, mobilised support in East Pakistan on the basis of its Six-Points Program (SPP), which was the main attraction in the party's manifesto. In East Pakistan, a huge majority of the Bengali nation favoured the Awami League, under Sheikh Mujib. The party received a huge percentage of the popular vote in East Pakistan and emerged as the largest party in the nation as a whole, gaining the exclusive mandate of Pakistan in terms both of seats and of votes.

The Pakistan Peoples Party failed to win any seats in the east. On the other hand, the Awami League failed to garner any seats in the west.{{cite book |author=Owen Bennett-Jones |author-link=Owen Bennett-Jones |title=Pakistan: Eye of the Storm |year=2003 |publisher=Yale University Press |pages=161–162 |isbn=978-0-300-10147-8}} The Awami League's failure to win any seats in the west was used by the leftists led by Zulfikar Bhutto who argued that Mujib had received "no mandate or support from West Pakistan" (ignoring the fact that he himself did not win any seat in East Pakistan).{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}

Bhutto uttered his infamous phrase "idhar hum, udhar tum" (We rule here, you rule there) – thus dividing Pakistan for the first time orally.{{Cite news |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/545869/idhar-hum-udhar-tum-abbas-athar-remembered/ |title=Idhar hum, udhar tum: Abbas Athar remembered - The Express Tribune |date=2013-05-08 |work=The Express Tribune |access-date=2017-04-24 |language=en-US}}

Some Bengalis sided with the Pakistan Peoples' Party and tacitly or openly supported Bhutto and the democratic socialists, such as Jalaludin Abdur Rahim, an influential Bengali in Pakistan and mentor of Bhutto{{citation needed|date=May 2024}} who was later jailed by Bhutto. Jamat-e-Islami, while supporting allowing the Awami League to form a government, was also against the fragmentation of the country. Conversely, several prominent figures from West Pakistan supported allowing the Awami League to rule, including the poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz and rights activist Malik Ghulam Jilani, father of Asma Jahangir, G.M Syed the founder of Sindhi nationalist party Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) and Abul Ala Maududi, the leader of Jamat-e-Islami.

=Elections in West Pakistan=

However, the political position in West Pakistan was completely different from East Pakistan. In West Pakistan, the population was divided between different ideological forces. The right-wing parties, led under Abul Maududi, raised the religious slogans and initially campaigned on an Islamic platform, further promising to enforce Sharia laws in the country. Meanwhile, the founding party of Pakistan and the national conservative Muslim League, that although was divided into three factions (QML, CML, MLC), campaigned on a nationalist platform, promising to initiate the Jinnah reforms as originally envisioned by Jinnah and others in the 1940s. The factions however criticised each other for disobeying the rules laid down by the country's founding father.

The dynamic leadership and charismatic personality of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was highly active and influential in West Pakistan during these days. Bhutto's ideas and the famous slogan "Roti Kapra Aur Makaan" ("Food, Clothing and Shelter") attracted poor communities, students, and the working class to his party. Under Bhutto's leadership the democratic left gathered and united into one party platform for the first time in Pakistan's history. Bhutto and the left-leaning elements attracted the people of the West to participate and vote for the Peoples Party based on a broad hope for a better future for their children and families. As compared to the right-wing and conservatives in West Pakistan, Bhutto and his allies won most of the popular vote, becoming the pre-eminent players in the politics of the West.

=Nominations=

A total of 1,957 candidates filed nomination papers for the 300 National Assembly seats. After scrutiny and withdrawals, 1,579 eventually contested the elections. The Awami League ran 170 candidates, of which 162 were for constituencies in East Pakistan. Jamaat-e-Islami had the second-highest number of candidates with 151. The Pakistan Peoples Party ran only 120 candidates, of which 103 were from constituencies in Punjab and Sindh, and none in East Pakistan. The PML (Convention) ran 124 candidates, the PML (Council) 119 and the PML (Qayyum) 133.

All thirteen women's seats were uncontested.Report on the General Elections in Pakistan, 1972, p167

Results

{{Pie chart|caption=Vote Share of different parties in the election.

|value1=39.20

|label1=AL

|color1={{party color|Awami League}}

|value2=18.63

|label2=PPP

|color2={{party color|Pakistan Peoples Party}}

|value3=6.03

|label3=JI

|color3={{party color|Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan}}

|value4=5.96

|label4=CML

|color4={{party color|Council Muslim League}}

|value5=4.47

|label5=PML(Qa)

|color5={{party color|Pakistan Muslim League (Qayyum)}}

|value6=3.98

|label6=JUI

|color6={{party color|Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam}}

|value7=3.94

|label7=JUP

|color7={{party color|Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan}}

|value8=3.34

|label8=CML

|color8={{party color|Convention Muslim League}}

|value9=2.43

|label9=NAP(W)

|color9={{party color|National Awami Party (Wali)}}

|value10=2.24

|label10=PDP

|color10={{party color| Pakistan Democratic Party}}

|value11=7.04

|label11=IND

|color11=#a6caf0

|value12=2.76

|label12=Other Parties

|color12=Silver}}

{{Pie chart|caption=Seat Share of different parties in the election.

|value1=53.35

|label1=AL

|color1={{party color|All-Pakistan Awami League}}

|value2=27.48

|label2=PPP

|color2={{party color|Pakistan Peoples Party}}

|value3=2.87

|label3=PML(Qa)

|color3={{party color|Pakistan Muslim League (Qayyum)}}

|value4=2.23

|label4=CML

|color4={{party color|Council Muslim League}}

|value5=2.23

|label5=JUI

|color5={{party color|Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam}}

|value6=2.23

|label6=NAP(W)

|color6={{party color|National Awami Party (Wali)}}

|value7=2.23

|label7=JUP

|color7={{party color|Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan}}

|value8=1.28

|label8=JI

|color8={{party color|Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan}}

|value9=0.63

|label9=CML

|color9={{party color|Convention Muslim League}}

|value10=0.32

|label10=PDP

|color10={{party color| Pakistan Democratic Party}}

|value11=5.11

|label11=IND

|color11=#a6caf0

|value12=2.76

|label12=Other Parties

|color12=Silver}}

The total number of registered voters in the country was 56,941,500 of which 31,211,220 were from East Pakistan and 25,730,280 were from West Pakistan.

{{Election results

|image=File:Pakistan Parliament 1970 Diagram.svg

|seattype1=General|seattype2=Women|seattype3=Total

|party1=All-Pakistan Awami League|votes1=12937162|st1t1=160|st2t1=7|st3t1=167

|party2=Pakistan Peoples Party|votes2=6148923|st1t2=81|st2t2=4|st3t2=85

|party3=Jamaat-e-Islami|votes3=1989461|st1t3=4|st2t3=0|st3t3=4

|party4=Council Muslim League|votes4=1965689|st1t4=7|st2t4=0|st3t4=7

|party5=Pakistan Muslim League (Qayyum)|votes5=1473749|st1t5=9|st2t5=1|st3t5=10

|party6=Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam|votes6=1315071|st1t6=7|st2t6=0|st3t6=7

|party7=Markazi Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan|votes7=1299858|st1t7=7|st2t7=0|st3t7=7

|party8=Convention Muslim League|votes8=1102815|st1t8=2|st2t8=0|st3t8=2

|party9=National Awami Party (Wali)|votes9=801355|st1t9=6|st2t9=1|st3t9=7

|party10=Pakistan Democratic Party|votes10=737958|st1t10=1|st2t10=0|st3t10=1

|party11=Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Thanvi)|votes11=521764|st1t11=0|st2t11=0|st3t11=0

|party12=Other parties|votes12=387919|st1t12=0|st2t12=0|st3t12=0

|party13=Independents|votes13=2322341|st1t13=16|st2t13=0|st3t13=16

|total_st1t=300|total_st2t=13|total_st3t=313

|electorate=56941500

|source=Nohlen et al.,Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p686 {{ISBN|0-19-924958-X}} [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.174406/2015.174406.Bangladesh-Documents_djvu.txt Bangladesh Documents]

}}

=Elected members in eastern Pakistan=

List of members in East Bengal:{{cite web |url=https://www.ecp.gov.pk/Documents/GE%2007-12-1970.pdf |website=Government of Pakistan |archive-date=25 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225095947/https://www.ecp.gov.pk/Documents/GE%2007-12-1970.pdf |title=Notification}}{{cite book |author=Khaled Habib |title=Bangladesh: Elections, Parliament & the Cabinet, 1970-91 |year=1991 |publisher=Ē. Āra. Muraśēda |oclc=27146030 |pages=24–37}}

class="wikitable sortable"

!Constituency

!Party

!Member

NE-1 (Rangpur-I)

| Awami League

| Mazahar Hossain

NE-2 (Rangpur-II)

| Awami League

| Md. Reazuddin Ahmed

NE-3 (Rangpur-III)

| Awami League

| Mohammad Sadakat Hossain

NE-4 (Rangpur-IV)

| Awami League

| Lutfor Rahman

NE-5 (Rangpur-V)

| Awami League

| Shah Abdul Hamid

NE-6 (Rangpur-VI)

| Awami League

| Mohammad Abu Solaiman Mondal

NE-7 (Rangpur-VII)

| Awami League

| Mohammad Azizur Rahman

NE-8 (Rangpur-VIII)

| Awami League

| Mohammad Nural Haq

NE-9 (Rangpur-IX)

| Awami League

| Abdul Awal

NE-10 (Rangpur-X)

| Awami League

| Matiur Rahman

NE-11 (Rangpur-XI)

| Awami League

| Abdur Rouf

NE-12 (Rangpur-XII)

| Awami League

| Afsar Ali Ahmed

NE-13 (Dinajpur-I)

| Awami League

| Musharraf Husayn Chowdhury

NE-14 (Dinajpur-II)

| Awami League

| Adv. Azizur Rahman

NE-15 (Dinajpur-III)

| Awami League

| Mohammad Moksed Ali

NE-16 (Dinajpur-IV)

| Awami League

| Muhammad Yusuf Ali

NE-17 (Dinajpur-V)

| Awami League

| Shah Mahatab Ahmad

NE-18 (Dinajpur-VI)

| Awami League

| Wakiluddin Mondal

NE-19 (Bogra-I)

| Awami League

| Mafiz Ali Chowdhury

NE-20 (Bogra-II)

| Awami League

| Mujibur Rahman Mondal

NE-21 (Bogra-III)

| Awami League

| Akbar Ali Khan Chowdhury

NE-22 (Bogra-IV)

| Awami League

| Mohammad Habibur Rahman

NE-23 (Bogra-V)

| Awami League

| Zahidur Rahman

NE-24 (Pabna-I)

| Awami League

| Motahar Hossain Talukdar

NE-25 (Pabna-II)

| Awami League

| Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish

NE-26 (Pabna-III)

| Awami League

| Abdul Momin Talukdar

NE-27 (Pabna-IV)

| Awami League

| Syed Hossain Mansur

NE-28 (Pabna-V)

| Awami League

| Abu Sayeed

NE-29 (Pabna-VI)

| Awami League

| Amjad Hossain

NE-30 (Rajshahi-I)

| Awami League

| Atowar Rahman Talukder

NE-31 (Rajshahi-II)

| Awami League

| Azizar Rahman

NE-32 (Rajshahi-III)

| Awami League

| Mohammad Baitullah

NE-33 (Rajshahi-IV)

| Awami League

| Khalid Ali Mia

NE-34 (Rajshahi-V)

| Awami League

| Rais Uddin Ahmad

NE-35 (Rajshahi-VI)

| Awami League

| Abul Hasnat Muhammad Qamaruzzaman

NE-36 (Rajshahi-VII)

| Awami League

| Shah Muhammad Zafarullah

NE-37 (Rajshahi-VIII)

| Awami League

| Nazmul Hoque Sarkar

NE-38 (Rajshahi-IX)

| Awami League

| Sheikh Mobarak Hossain

NE-39 (Kushtia-I)

| Awami League

| M Amir-ul Islam

NE-40 (Kushtia-II)

| Awami League

| Azizur Rahman Akkas

NE-41 (Kushtia-III)

| Awami League

| Mohammad Shahiduddin

NE-42 (Kushtia-IV)

| Awami League

| Abzalur Rashid

NE-43 (Jessore-I)

| Awami League

| Md. Kamruzzaman

NE-44 (Jessore-II)

| Awami League

| Iqbal Anwar Islam

NE-45 (Jessore-III)

| Awami League

| Masihur Rahman

NE-46 (Jessore-IV)

| Awami League

| Subodh Kumar Mitra

NE-47 (Jessore-V)

| Awami League

| Raushan Ali

NE-48 (Jessore-VI)

| Awami League

| Muhammad Sohrab Hossain

NE-49 (Jessore-VII)

| Awami League

| Khandaker Abdul Hafeez

NE-50 (Khulna-I)

| Awami League

| Abul Khayr Shiqdar

NE-51 (Khulna-II)

| Awami League

| Sheikh Abdul Aziz

NE-52 (Khulna-III)

| Awami League

| Lutfar Rahman

NE-53 (Khulna-IV)

| Awami League

| Muhammad Abdul Ghafur

NE-54 (Khulna-V)

| Awami League

| Mohammad Mohsin

NE-55 (Khulna-VI)

| Awami League

| Salahuddin Yusuf

NE-56 (Khulna-VII)

| Awami League

| Muhammad Abdul Ghaffar

NE-57 (Khulna-VIII)

| Awami League

| Syed Kamal Bakht

NE-58 (Bakerganj-I)

| Awami League

| Abdur Rab Serniabat

NE-59 (Bakerganj-II)

| Awami League

| Salehuddin Ahmed

NE-60 (Bakerganj-III)

| Awami League

| Nurul Islam Manzur

NE-61 (Bakerganj-IV)

| Awami League

| Mohammad Abdul Barek

NE-62 (Bakerganj-V)

| Awami League

| Abdul Mannan Howlader

NE-63 (Bakerganj-VI)

| Awami League

| Tofail Ahmed

NE-64 (Bakerganj-VII)

| Awami League

| Azahar Uddin Ahmed

NE-65 (Bakerganj-VIII)

| Awami League

| A K Faezul Huq

NE-66 (Bakerganj-IX)

| Awami League

| Enayet Hossain Khan

NE-67 (Bakerganj-cum-Patuakhali)

| Awami League

| Md. Shamsul Huq

NE-68 (Patuakhali-I)

| Awami League

| Golam Ahad Chowdhury

NE-69 (Patuakhali-II)

| Awami League

| Abdul Hady Talukder

NE-70 (Patuakhali-III)

| Awami League

| Asmat Ali Sikder

NE-71 (Tangail-I)

| Awami League

| Abdul Mannan

NE-72 (Tangail-II)

| Awami League

| Shaukat Ali Khan

NE-73 (Tangail-III)

| Awami League

| Humayun Khalid

NE-74 (Tangail-IV)

| Awami League

| Hatem Ali Talukdar

NE-75 (Tangail-V)

| Awami League

| Shamsur Rahman Khan Shahjahan

NE-76 (Mymensingh-I)

| Awami League

| Mohammad Abdus Samad

NE-77 (Mymensingh-II)

| Awami League

| Karimuzzaman Talukder

NE-78 (Mymensingh-III)

| Awami League

| Mohammad Abdul Hakim

NE-79 (Mymensingh-IV)

| Awami League

| Anisur Rahman

NE-80 (Mymensingh-V)

| Awami League

| Abdul Hakim Sarkar

NE-81 (Mymensingh-VI)

| Awami League

| Musharraf Husayn Akhand

NE-82 (Mymensingh-VII)

| Awami League

| Ibrahim Sarkar

NE-83 (Mymensingh-VIII)

| Pakistan Democratic Party

| Nurul Amin

NE-84 (Mymensingh-IX)

| Awami League

| Syed Abdus Sultan

NE-85 (Mymensingh-X)

| Awami League

| ANM Nazrul Islam

NE-86 (Mymensingh-XI)

| Awami League

| Mohammad Shamsul Huda

NE-87 (Mymensingh-XII)

| Awami League

| Sadir Uddin Ahmed

NE-88 (Mymensingh-XIII)

| Awami League

| Abdul Momin Taluqdar

NE-89 (Mymensingh-XIV)

| Awami League

| Zubed Ali

NE-90 (Mymensingh-XV)

| Awami League

| Asaduzzaman Khan

NE-91 (Mymensingh-XVI)

| Awami League

| Zillur Rahman

NE-92 (Mymensingh-XVII)

| Awami League

| Syed Nazrul Islam

NE-93 (Mymensingh-XVIII)

| Awami League

| Mohammad Abdul Hamid

NE-94 (Faridpur-I)

| Awami League

| A.B.M. Nurul Islam

NE-95 (Faridpur-II)

| Awami League

| Syed Qumrul Islam Saleh Uddin

NE-96 (Faridpur-III)

| Awami League

| KM Obaidur Rahman

NE-97 (Faridpur-IV)

| Awami League

| Shamsuddin Mollah

NE-98 (Faridpur-V)

| Awami League

| Mohammad Abul Khayer

NE-99 (Faridpur-VI)

| Awami League

| Mollah Jalaluddin Ahmed

NE-100 (Faridpur-VII)

| Awami League

| Adeluddin Ahmad

NE-101 (Faridpur-VIII)

| Awami League

| Amjad Husayn Khan

NE-102 (Faridpur-IX)

| Awami League

| Abidur Reza Khan

NE-103 (Faridpur-X)

| Awami League

| M. A. Kasem

NE-104 (Dacca-I)

| Awami League

| Mohammed Nurul Islam

NE-105 (Dacca-II)

| Awami League

| Moslem Uddin Khan

NE-106 (Dacca-III)

| Awami League

| Khandaker Nurul Islam

NE-107 (Dacca-IV)

| Awami League

| Shamsul Haq

NE-108 (Dacca-V)

| Awami League

| Tajuddin Ahmad

NE-109 (Dacca-VI)

| Awami League

| Ashraf Ali Chowdhury

NE-110 (Dacca-VII)

| Awami League

| Zahir Uddin

NE-111 (Dacca-VIII)

| Awami League

| Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

NE-112 (Dacca-IX)

| Awami League

| Kamal Hossain

NE-113 (Dacca-X)

| Awami League

| Fazlur Rahman Bhuiyan

NE-114 (Dacca-XI)

| Awami League

| Aftab Uddin Bhuiyan

NE-115 (Dacca-XII)

| Awami League

| Abdur Razzaq Bhuiyan

NE-116 (Dacca-XIII)

| Awami League

| Shahar Ali Mia

NE-117 (Dacca-XIV)

| Awami League

| AKM Samsuzzoha

NE-118 (Dacca-XV)

| Awami League

| Kafiluddin Chowdhury

NE-119 (Dacca-XVI)

| Awami League

| Abdul Karim Bepari

NE-120 (Sylhet-I)

| Awami League

| Mostafa Ali

NE-121 (Sylhet-II)

| Awami League

| Mohammad Abdur Rab

NE-122 (Sylhet-III)

| Awami League

| Latifur Rahman Chowdhury

NE-123 (Sylhet-IV)

| Awami League

| Mohammad Elias

NE-124 (Sylhet-V)

| Awami League

| Abdul Muntaquim Chaudhury

NE-125 (Sylhet-VI)

| Awami League

| M. A. G. Osmani

NE-126 (Sylhet-VII)

| Awami League

| Abdur Rahim

NE-127 (Sylhet-VIII)

| Awami League

| Dewan Farid Gazi

NE-128 (Sylhet-IX)

| Awami League

| Abdul Hoque

NE-129 (Sylhet-X)

| Awami League

| Abdus Samad Azad

NE-130 (Sylhet-XI)

| Awami League

| D. M. H Obaidur Raza Chowdhury

NE-131 (Comilla-I)

| Awami League

| Taheruddin Thakur

NE-132 (Comilla-II)

| Awami League

| Ali Azam

NE-133 (Comilla-III)

| Awami League

| Dewan Abul Abbas

NE-134 (Comilla-IV)

| Awami League

| Serajul Huq

NE-135 (Comilla-V)

| Awami League

| Khurshed Alam

NE-136 (Comilla-VI)

| Awami League

| Kazi Zahirul Qayyum

NE-137 (Comilla-VII)

| Awami League

| Ahmad Khaliq

NE-138 (Comilla-VIII)

| Awami League

| Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad

NE-139 (Comilla-IX)

| Awami League

| Md Abul Hashem

NE-140 (Comilla-X)

| Awami League

| Muhammad Shujat Ali

NE-141 (Comilla-XI)

| Awami League

| Abdul Awal

NE-142 (Comilla-XII)

| Awami League

| Hafez Habibur Rahman

NE-143 (Comilla-XIII)

| Awami League

| Muhammad Waliullah

NE-144 (Comilla-XIV)

| Awami League

| Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury

NE-145 (Noakhali-I)

| Awami League

| Obaidullah Majumdar

NE-146 (Noakhali-II)

| Awami League

| Khawaja Ahmed

NE-147 (Noakhali-III)

| Awami League

| Nurul Haque

NE-148 (Noakhali-IV)

| Awami League

| Abdul Malek Ukil

NE-149 (Noakhali-V)

| Awami League

| Delwar Hussain

NE-150 (Noakhali-VI)

| Awami League

| Khalid Muhammad Ali

NE-151 (Noakhali-VII)

| Awami League

| Md. Hanif

NE-152 (Noakhali-VIII)

| Awami League

| Abdur Rashid

NE-153 (Chittagong-I)

| Awami League

| Mustafizur Rahman Siddiqi

NE-154 (Chittagong-II)

| Awami League

| Muhammad Abdul Majid

NE-155 (Chittagong-III)

| Awami League

| Mohammad Idris

NE-156 (Chittagong-IV)

| Awami League

| Syed Fazlul Haq

NE-157 (Chittagong-V)

| Awami League

| Mohammad Khaled

NE-158 (Chittagong-VI)

| Awami League

| Nurul Islam Chowdhury

NE-159 (Chittagong-VII)

| Awami League

| Ataur Rahman Khan Kaiser

NE-160 (Chittagong-VIII)

| Awami League

| Abu Saleh Mia

NE-161 (Chittagong-IX)

| Awami League

| Nur Ahmad Sawdagar

NE-162 (Hill Tracts)

| Independent

| Tridev Roy

=Elected members in western Pakistan=

List of members from Punjab, Sindh, North West Frontier Province, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, and Balochistan:{{citation|date=August 2010|title=National Assembly Elections in Pakistan 1970-2008 A compendium of elections related facts and statistics|url=https://fafen.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Compendium-National-Assembly-Elections-1970-2008-Pakistan.pdf|work=Free and Fair Election Network|access-date=24 October 2024}}{{citation |title=5th National Assembly from 1972 to 10th January 1977 |url=https://na.gov.pk/uploads/former-members/5th%20National%20Assembly.pdf}}

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!Constituency

!Party

!Member

NW-1 Peshawar-I

| Pakistan Muslim League (Qayyum)

| Abdul Qayyum Khan (vacated)
Yusuf Khattak (by-election)

NW-2 Peshawar-II

| National Awami Party (Wali)

| Ghulam Faruque Khan

NW-3 Peshawar-III

| National Awami Party (Wali)

| Abdul Wali Khan

NW-4 Peshawar-IV

| Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam

| Abdul Haq Akorwi

NW-5 Hazara-I

| Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam

| Abdul Hakeem

NW-6 Hazara-II

| Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam

| Ghulam Ghaus Hazarvi

NW-7 Hazara-III

| Pakistan Muslim League (Qayyum)

| Sardar Inayatur Rehman Khan Abbasi

NW-8 Hazara-IV

| Pakistan Muslim League (Qayyum)

| Abdul Qayyum Khan

NW-9 Mardan-I

| Pakistan People's Party

| Abdul Khaliq Khan

NW-10 Mardan-II

| National Awami Party (Wali)

| Ameerzada Khan (vacated)

NW-10 Mardan-II

|

| Umra Khan (by election)

NW-11 (Mardan cum Hazara)

| Pakistan Muslim League (Qayyum)

| Abdul Qayyum Khan (vacated)

NW-11 (Mardan cum Hazara)

|

| Muhammad Hanif Khan (by election)

NW-12 (Kohat)

| Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam

| Moulvi Naimatullah

NW-13 (Dera Ismail Khan)

| Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam

| Mufti Mehmood

NW-14 (Bannu)

| Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam

| Moulana Sadar us Shahid

NW-15 (Chitral cum Dir)

| Pakistan Muslim League (Qayyum)

| Jafar Ali Shah

NW-16 (Swat-I)

| Pakistan Muslim League (Qayyum)

| Rahim Shah

NW-17 (Swat-II)

| Pakistan Muslim League (Qayyum)

| Miangul Aurangzeb

NW-18 (Dir)

| Jamaat-e-Islami

| Sahibzada Saifullah

NW-19 (Tribal Area-I)

| Independent

| Akbar Khan Mohmand

NW-20 (Tribal Area-II)

| Independent

| Haji Saleh Khan

NW-21 (Tribal Area-III)

| Independent

| Naimatullah Khan Shinwari (vacated)
Haji Gul Muhammad (by election)

NW-22 (Tribal Area-IV)

| Independent

| Malik Jahangir Khan

NW-23 (Tribal Area-V)

| Independent

| Abdul Malik

NW-24 (Tribal Area-VI)

| Independent

| Jamal Dar

NW-25 (Tribal Area-VII)

| Independent

| Abdul Subhan Khan

NW-26 (Rawalpindi-I)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Khurshid Hassan Mir

NW-27 (Rawalpindi-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Malik Muhammad Jaffar

NW-28 (Rawalpindi-III)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Habib Ahmed

NW-29 (Rawalpindi-IV)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Raja Abdul Aziz Bhatti

NW-30 (Campbellpur-I)

| Council Muslim League

| Shaukat Hayat Khan

NW-31 (Campbellpur-II)

| Council Muslim League

| Pir Syed Saifuddin

NW-32 (Jhelum-I)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Dr. Ghulam Hussain

NW-33 (Jhelum-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Muhammad Amir Khan

NW-34 (Jhelum-III)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Malik Muhammad Sadiq

NW-35 (Gujrat-I)

| Council Muslim League

| Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi

NW-36 (Gujrat-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (vacated)

NW-36 (Gujrat-II)

|

| Muhammad Sardar Khan (by election)

NW-37 (Gujrat-III)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Chaudhary Manzoor Hussain Daudra

NW-38 (Gujrat-IV)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Chaudhary Ghulam Rasool Tarar

NW-39 (Sargodha-I)

|

| Chaudhary Jahangir Ali

NW-40 (Sargodha-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Anwar Ali Noon

NW-41 (Sargodha-III)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Hafeezullah Cheema

NW-42 (Sargodha-IV)

| Council Muslim League

| Malik Karam Bakhsh Awan

NW-43 (Sargodha-V)

| Council Muslim League

| Nawabzada Mian Muhammad Zakir

NW-44 (Mianwali-I)

| Independent

| Nawabzada Malik Muzaffar Khan

NW-45 (Mianwali-II)

| Council Muslim League

| Ghulam Hassan Khan Dhandala

NW-46 (Jhang-I)

| Markazi Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan

| Mehar Ghulam Haider Bharwana

NW-47 (Jhang-II)

| Markazi Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan

| Moulana Muhammad Zakir (d. 1975)

NW-47 (Jhang-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Sardarzada Muhammad Ali Shah (by election)

NW-48 (Jhang-III)

| Markazi Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan

| Sahibzada Nazir Sultan

NW-49 (Lyallpur-I)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Mukhtar Rana (disqualified)

NW-49 (Lyallpur-I)

|

| Muhammad Afzal Randhawa (by election)

NW-50 (Lyallpur-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Mian Muhammad Attaullah

NW-51 (Lyallpur-III)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Ahsanul Haq

NW-52 (Lyallpur-IV)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Muhammad Bashir Ahmed

NW-53 (Lyallpur-V)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Chaudhary Muhammad Aslam (d. 1975)

NW-53 (Lyallpur-V)

|

| Raja Mubaraz Khan (by election)

NW-54 (Lyallpur-VI)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Rai Hafeezullah Khan

NW-55 (Lyallpur-VII)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Chaudhary Muhammad Anwar Ali Khan

NW-56 (Lyallpur-VIII)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Ghulam Nabi Chaudhary

NW-57 (Lyallpur-IX)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Muhammad Khan Chaudhary

NW-58 (Lahore-I)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Malik Muhammad Akhtar

NW-59 (Lahore-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Mubashir Hassan

NW-60 (Lahore-III)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (vacated)
Mahmud Ali Kasuri (by election)

NW-61 (Lahore-IV)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed

NW-62 (Lahore-V)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Malik Meraj Khalid

NW-63 (Lahore-VI)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Ahmad Raza Khan Kasuri

NW-64 (Lahore-VII)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Chaudhary Shafaat Khan Chohan

NW-65 (Lahore-VIII)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Syed Mehmood Abbas Bukhari

NW-66 (Sheikhupura-I)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Chaudhry Mumtaz Ahmed

NW-67 (Sheikhupura-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Mian Hamid Yaseen

NW-68 (Sheikhupura-III)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Chaudhary Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1974)

NW-68 (Sheikhupura-III)

|

| Nisar Ahmed (by election)

NW-69 (Sheikhupura-IV)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Rai Shahadat Ali Khan

NW-70 (Gujranwala-I)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Mian Manzoor-e-Hassan (d. 1974)
Habibur Rahman (by election)

NW-71 (Gujranwala-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Zulfiqar Ali Bajwa (died)

NW-71 (Gujranwala-II)

|

| Ali Muhammad Darriwal (by election)

NW-72 (Gujranwala-III)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Ghulam Haider Cheema

NW-73 (Gujranwala-IV)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Mian Shahadat Khan

NW-74 (Sialkot-I)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Mian Masood Ahmed

NW-75 (Sialkot-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Kausar Niazi

NW-76 (Sialkot-III)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Chaudhary Nasrullah Khan (vacated)

NW-76 (Sialkot-III)

| Council Muslim League

| Abdul Wahid (by election)

NW-77 (Sialkot-IV)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Malik Muhammad Suleman

NW-78 (Sialkot-V)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Chaudhary Sultan Ahmed Cheema

NW-79 (Multan-I)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (vacated)
Sahibzada Farooq Ali (by election)

NW-80 (Multan-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Sadiq Hussain Qureshi (vacated)

NW-80 (Multan-II)

|

| Sajid Pervez Mian (by election)

NW-81 (Multan-III)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Sayyid Abbas Hussain Gardezi

NW-82 (Multan-IV)

| Independent

| Zafarullah Khan Chaudhary

NW-83 (Multan-V)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Chaudhary Barkatullah

NW-84 (Multan-VI)

| Council Muslim League

| Mumtaz Daultana (vacated)

NW-84 (Multan-VI)

|

| Mian Riaz Ahmed Khan (by election)

NW-85 (Multan-VII)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Khan Irshad Ahmed Khan

NW-86 (Multan-VIII)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Syed Nasir Ali Rizvi

NW-87 (Multan-IX)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Rana Taj Ahmed Noon

NW-88 (Dera Ghazi Khan-I)

| Jamaat-e-Islami

| Nazir Ahmed (died)

NW-88 (Dera Ghazi Khan-I)

|

| Khawaja Ghulam Suleman (by election)

NW-89 (Dera Ghazi Khan-II)

| Independent

| Sherbaz Khan Mazari

NW-90 (Muzaffargarh-I)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Mahar Manzoor Hussain Sumra

NW-91 (Muzaffargarh-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Ghulam Mustafa Khar (vacated)

NW-91 (Muzaffargarh-II)

|

| Mian Ghulam Abbas (by election)

NW-92 (Muzaffargarh-III)

| Markazi Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan

| Mian Muhammad Ibrahim Barq

NW-93 (Sahiwal-I)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Sardar Abdul Aleem

NW-94 (Sahiwal-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Chaudhary Muhammad Hanif Khan

NW-95 (Sahiwal-III)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Haji Muhammad Sadiq

NW-96 (Sahiwal-IV)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Rao Khurshid Ali Khan

NW-97 (Sahiwal-V)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Mian Muhammad Hassan Khan

NW-98 (Sahiwal-VI)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Rao Hashim Khan

NW-99 (Sahiwal-VII)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Noor Muhammad

NW-100 (Bahawalpur-I)

| Council Muslim League

| Nizamuddin Haider

NW-101 (Bahawalpur-II)

| Independent

| Saeed-ur-Rashid Abbasi

NW-102 (Bahawalnagar cum Bahawalpur)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Muhammad Shafi

NW-103 (Bahawalnagar-I)

| Pakistan Muslim League (Qayyum)

| Syed Rafiq Muhammad Shah

NW-104 (Bahawalnagar-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Mian Muhammad Rafiq

NW-105 (Rahim Yar Khan-I)

| Convention Muslim League

| Khawaja Jamal Muhammad Koreja

NW-106 (Rahim Yar Khan-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Abdul Nabi Khan Kanju

NW-107 (Rahim Yar Khan-III)

| Independent

| Makhdoom Noor Muhammad

NW-108 (Jacobabad)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Mir Dariya Khan Khoso

NW-109 (Sukkur-I)

| Independent

| Moula Bakhsh Soomro

NW-110 (Sukkur-II)

| Independent

| Ali Hassan Mangi

NW-111 (Sukkur-III)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Noor Muhammad Khan Lund

NW-112 (Nawabshah-I)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Hakim Ali Zardari

NW-113 (Nawabshah-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi (vacated)
Ghulam Mujtaba Jatoi (by election)

NW-114 (Khairpur-I)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Syed Qaim Ali Shah

NW-115 (Khairpur-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Pir Syed Abdul Qadir Shah Jillani

NW-116 (Larkana-I)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

NW-117 (Larkana-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Mumtaz Bhutto

NW-118 (Hyderabad-I)

| Markazi Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan

| Syed Muhammad Ali Rizvi

NW-119 (Hyderabad-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Mir Aijaz Ali Talpur

NW-120 (Hyderabad-III)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Makhdoom Muhammad Zaman Talibul Moula

NW-121 (Hyderabad-IV)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (vacated)
Haji Ali Ahmed Khan (by election)

NW-122 (Tharparkar-I)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Mir Ali Bakhsh Khan Talpur

NW-123 (Tharparkar-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Pir Ghulam Rasool Shah Jillani

NW-124 (Dadu-I)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Abdul Hameed Jatoi

NW-125 (Dadu-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Malik Sikandar Khan

NW-126 (Sanghar)

| Pakistan Muslim League (Qayyum)

| Atta Muhammad Marri

NW-127 (Thatta)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (vacated)
Ameen Faheem (by election)

NW-128 (Karachi-I)

| Markazi Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan

| Abdul Mustafa Al-Azhari

NW-129 (Karachi-II)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Abdul Hafeez Pirzada

NW-130 (Karachi-III)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Abdul Sattar Gabol

NW-131 (Karachi-IV)

| Jamaat-e-Islami

| Mehmood Azam Farooqi

NW-132 (Karachi-V)

| Jamaat-e-Islami

| Abdul Ghafoor Ahmed

NW-133 (Karachi-VI)

| Independent

| Zafar Ahmed Ansari

NW-134 (Karachi-VII)

| Markazi Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan

| Shah Ahmad Noorani (vacated)

NW-134 (Karachi-VII)

| Pakistan People's Party

| Noorul Arfin (by election)

NW-135 (Quetta-I)

| Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam

| Maulvi Abdul Haq

NW-136 (Quetta-II)

| National Awami Party (Wali)

| Khair Bakhsh Marri (vacated)

NW-136 (Quetta-II)

| Council Muslim League

| Taj Muhammad Jamali (by-election)

NW-137 (Kalat-I)

| National Awami Party (Wali)

| Abdul Hai Baloch

NW-138 (Kalat-II)

| National Awami Party (Wali)

| Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo

Aftermath

The elected Assembly initially did not meet as President Yahya Khan and the Pakistan Peoples Party did not want the majority party from East Pakistan forming government. This caused great unrest in East Pakistan. The military junta responded by executing Operation Searchlight, which led to the Bangladesh War of Independence, with East Pakistan becoming the independent state of Bangladesh. The Assembly session was eventually held when Yahya resigned four days after Pakistan surrendered to Bangladesh and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto took over. Bhutto became the Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1973, after the post was recreated by the new Constitution.

References

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