Pakistan Punjab Provincial Election 2024 in Exclusive

The Pakistan Punjab provincial election 2024 will be held on February 8. The Election Commission of Pakistan and President Dr. Arif Alvi unanimously scheduled the polling day. The polling day will be the same in four provinces. On November 2, 2023, the Election Commission of Pakistan and the President showed willingness for the Punjab Provincial election 2024.

After the scheduled date of the election, the Election Commission of Pakistan intensified its activities regarding the Punjab Province election 2024. The coming national assembly will be the 18th assembly of Pakistan.

All the political parties will take part in the Punjab provincial election 2024 assembly. The top three parties are the most popular in the country. PTI is the most popular party, with 59% of voters among other parties, according to the Gallup Report 2023. Its chairman, Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, was elected on December 2, 2023.

Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz is the second most popular party in Pakistan; its chairman is former Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif. The Pakistan People’s Party parliamentarian also has the largest number of voters in Pakistan. This party has limited its circle in Sindh Province due to the absence of a manifesto.

Background 2018 to Punjab Provincial Election 2024

The Punjab provincial election was held on July 25, 2018. After the completion of the five-year tenure of this elected government, the Punjab Provincial election 2024 was held on the scheduled date. In the Punjab Provincial Assembly at the time of the 2018 election, Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz emerged as a successful winning party. In this province, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf formed a government with the affiliation PML Q, and the Pakistan Muslim Nawaz was the strong opposition in that province.

If someone wants to know the complete results for Punjab province, he can visit this post. Here, all the details of the winning candidates are available.

The political situation in 2022 in Punjab Province

In April 2022, a motion of no confidence was filed against Prime Minister Imran Khan. This motion became successful, and Imran Khan was dismissed. In Punjab Province, a vote of no confidence was also filed against Usman Buzdar, the opposition, who was the Chief Minister of the province.

Before the filing of the vote of no confidence, Usman Buzdar resigned from the Punjab assembly. After that, a race was started between Hamza Shahbaz and Pervaiz Elhai. Pervaiz Elhai was the candidate of PTI and PMLQ, and Hamza Shahbaz was the candidate of PDM. Election day was scheduled for April 16, 2022; in this voting, 25 PTI candidates did floor crossing. In short, Hamza Shahbaz succeeded in this election, and he became the chief minister of Punjab Province.

This was an illegal action; in the light of the constitution, Hamza Shahbaz was dismissed, and on July 17, a vote was started between Hamza Shahbaz and Pervaiz Elhai. After the result of this election, Pervaiz Elhai secured winning status. And he became the new chief minister of Punjab Province.

The motion of no confidence against Pervaiz Elhai

A motion of no confidence was filed against Pervaiz Elhai. He secured the vote of confidence. For the dissolution of the Punjab provincial assembly, Pervaiz Elhai sent a letter to the governor. He did not sign this notification for any reason. After the passing of 48 hours, the Punjab assembly was automatically dissolved.

Caretaker government in Punjab Province election 2024

Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi became the caretaker Chief Minister of Punjab Province on January 22, 2023. According to the constitution, the caretaker government can serve for 90 days, but this caretaker is still serving now.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf was the second-largest winning party after the affiliation of 25 independent candidates. At this time, this party needed two seats for a simple majority in the Punjab assembly. Then PML (Q) showed willingness with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. In this way, PTI remained the successful party in making the government in this province.

During the time of 2022 to 2024 was the worst situation of political uncertainty in Pakistan. Punjab Provincial election 2024 candidate’s scrutiny process is being on proceed.

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Conclusion

In short, the Punjab provincial election 2024 will be held at the scheduled time. In this regard, all political parties have started their electoral activities to win the election in Punjab. A free and fair election will make democracy stronger.