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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.
Dec 11, 2020 · Dr GW Choudhury, a central minister in the cabinet of president General Yahya Khan, wrote in his book, The Last Days of United Pakistan, that “elections were held on December 7, 1970, and were by any standard free and fair — ironically the first and last genuine election in united Pakistan.”
The 1970 general elections were a fierce contest between two social democratic parties – the west-based Pakistan Peoples Party of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and the east-based Awami League of Sheikh ...
ABSTRACT. On December 07, 1970, first general elections were held in Pakistan. It took long 23 years that the government of Pakistan could manage to hold general elections, earlier (first phase—1947-1958) the legislative/constituent assembly was composed of members elected through an indirect election system.
January 1970, and went on for almost a full year turned out to be the longest election campaign ever in the parliamentary history of Pakistan. The issues which got prominence during the campaign were not identical in all over the country. The main issue in the election campaign in East Pakistan was the question of provincial
The election results revealed that more than 30 percent of the legislators of all the previous National Assemblies of Pakistan (1956, 1962, and 1966) and 35.41 percent of the Members of National Assembly (MNAs) after 1970 elections were landed aristocrats especially from the Punjab and Sindh.
Abstract. Pakistan has a turbulent democratic history, occurred in turn repeatedly between elected and military government since 1947.During this period Pakistan faced many crisis in general elections of 1970 till 2013. Functional and effective political system will only ensure the prosperity and stability of Pakistan.
