2013 Balochistan provincial election

2013 Balochistan provincial election

11 May 2013
All 65 seats in the Provincial Assembly 38 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	40.86%(7.58%)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Hamid Khan Achakzai Sanaullah Zehri Abdul Malik Baloch Party PMAP PML(N) NP Leader's seat Qilla Abdullah-III Khuzdar-I Kech-I Last election boycotted 0 seats, 1.13% 1 seat, 0.78% Seats won 14 12 10 Seat change 14 12 9 Popular vote 167,900 134,758 76,018 Percentage 13.06% 10.28% 5.78% Swing 12.80% 9.15% 4.00%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Maulana Abdul Wasey Abdul Quddus Bizenjo Akhtar Mengal Party JUI (F) PML(Q) BNP (M) Leader's seat Qilla Saifullah Awaran Khuzdar-III Last election 9 seats, 15.10% 19 seats, 33.39% 7 seats, 5.06% Seats won 8 6 2 Seat change 1 13 5 Popular vote 207,167 53,305 81,217 Percentage 15.80% 4.06% 6.19% Swing 0.70% 29.33% 1.13%
Chief Minister before election Muhammad Aslam Khan Raisani PPP Elected Chief Minister Abdul Malik Baloch NP

Provincial elections were held in the Pakistani province of Balochistan on 11 May 2013, alongside nationwide general elections and three other provincial elections in Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab. The remaining two territories of Pakistan, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, were ineligible to vote due to their disputed status.

Background

The 2013 elections resulted in a hung parliament, before Pakistan Muslim League (N), National Party, and Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party joined hands to form a coalition government. A power-sharing agreement was also brokered between PML-N and NP where the province's Chief Ministership tenure would be bifurcated between the two parties. In consequence, NP's Abdul Malik Baloch served as chief minister from 2013 to 2015 before he was replaced by PML-N's Sanaullah Khan Zehri at the end of 2015.

However, Zehri couldn't complete his term as on 2 January 2018, a number of dissident members from the ruling PML-N colluded with opposition lawmakers to submit a no-confidence motion against him. Seeing that he has lost the majority of the house's support in the ensuing turmoil, Zehri resigned from his post before a no-confidence vote could take place. Pakistan Muslim League (Q)'s, Abdul Quddus Bizenjo, an opposition lawmaker and one of the leaders of the no-confidence bloc, was elected as the province's 15th Chief Minister. He secured 41 of the 65 votes.

Results

Constituency	Name	Party
PB-22	Abdul Rahim Ziaratwal	Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party
PB-23	Changez Khan Marri	Pakistan Muslim League (N)
PB-25	Jan Mohammad Jamali	Pakistan Muslim League (N)
PB-35	Mohammad Akhtar Mengal	Balochistan National Party (Mengal)
PB-38	Nawab Muhammad Khan Shahwani	National Party (Pakistan)
PB-45	Mohammad Saleh Bhootani	Independent
PB-48	Abdul Malik Baloch	National Party (Pakistan)
PB-8	Agha Syed Liaqat Ali	Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party
PB-50	Akbar Askani	Pakistan Muslim League (N)
PB-49	Fateh Mohammad Baloch	National Party
PB-65	Ghansham Das Madwani Baloch
PB-9	Haji Abdul Malik Kakar	Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (F)
PB-40	Haji Ghulam Dastagir Badeni	Pakistan Muslim League (N)
PB-7	Khalil-ur-Rehman (politician)	Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (F)
PB-6	Manzoor Ahmed Kakar	Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party
PB-15	Mazaullah Musakhail	Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (F)
PB-46	Mir Abdul Karim Nousherwani	Pakistan Muslim League (Q)
PB-28	Mir Abdul Majid Abro	Pakistan Muslim League (N)
PB-39	Mir Amanullah Notezai	Pakistan Muslim League (Q)
PB-31	Mir Amir Rind	Pakistan Muslim League (N)
PB-51	Mir Hamal Kalmati	Balochistan National Party (Mengal)
PB-27	Mir Izhar Hussain Khosa	Pakistan Muslim League (N)
PB-36	Mir Khalid Humayun Langau	National Party
PB-30	Mir Mohammad Asim Kurd Gello	Pakistan Muslim League (N)
PB-47	Mir Mujeeb-ur-Rehman Muhammad Hasani	National Party
PB-21	Mir Sarfraz Chakar Domki	Pakistan Muslim League (N)
PB-37	Mir Zafarullah Khan Zehri	Balochistan National Party (Awami)
PB-18	Mufti Gulab Khan	Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (F)
PB-43	Muhammad Islam	National Party
PB-29	Muhammad Khan Lehri	Pakistan Muslim League (N)
PB-5	Nasrullah Khan Zayray	Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party
PB-32	Nawabzada Tariq Magsi	Independent
PB-16	Obaidullah Jan Babat	Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party
PB-44	Prince Ahmed Ali Ahmedzai	Pakistan Muslim League (N)
PB-26	Rahat Jamali
PB-42	Rahmat Saleh Baloch	National Party
PB-17	Sardar Abdul Rehman Khetran	Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (F)
PB-14	Sardar Dur Muhammad Nasar	Pakistan Muslim League (N)
PB-10	Sardar Ghulam Mustafa Khan Tareen	Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party
PB-34	Sardar Muhammad Aslam Bizenjo	National Party
PB-20	Maulana Abdul Wasay	Jamiat Ulamae-Islam (F)
PB-4	Sardar Raza Muhammad Barrech	Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party
PB-24	Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti	Pakistan Muslim League (N)
PB-19	Sheikh Jaffar Khan Mandokhail	Pakistan Muslim League (Q)
PB-3	Nawab Ayaz Jogezai	Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party
PB-2	Syed Muhammad Raza	Majlis Wahdatul Muslimeen
PB-1	Tahir Mahmood Khan	Pakistan Muslim League (N)
PB-13	Abdul Majeed Khan Achakzai	Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party
PB-11	Hamid Khan Achakzai	Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party
PB-64	William Jan Barkat	Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party
PB-12	Zmrak Khan	Awami National Party
PB-41	Abdul Quddus Bizenjo	Pakistan Muslim League (Q)
Women's reserved seats	Arfa Siddiq	Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party
	Husan Bano	Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (F)
	Kishwar Ahmed	Pakistan Muslim League (N)
	Masooma Hayat	Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party
	Ruqia Saeed Hashmi	Pakistan Muslim League (Q)
	Samina Khan	Pakistan Muslim League (N)
	Shahida Rauf	Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (F)
	Shama Ishaq	National Party
	Spozmi Achakzai	Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party
	Yasmin Bibi	National Party
	Rahila Durrani	Pakistan Muslim League (N)
	Anita Irfan
Minorities' reserved seats	Santosh Kumar Bugti	Pakistan Muslim League (N)