Explanation

Sikandar Sultan Raja appointed CEC: 27 January 2020

Sikandar Sultan Raja: first retired bureaucrat to have ever been appointed as the head of the top electoral body

Previously, Sardar Muhammad Raza was CEC (retired on December 5, 2019)

NA23-7-2023

Explanation

The term of the Members of Senate is six years, however, one-half of its members retire after every three years.

Explanation

The 2024 Election was the 12th General Election in Pakistan held on 8 February 2024

Explanation

The ECP and the President agreed on 8 February 2024 as the date for the general election.

Explanation

Turnout in Pakistani general elections

1970: 63%

1988: 43%

1990: 45%

1993: 40%

1997:35%

2002: 41%

2008: 44%

2013: 53%

2018: 51%

Explanation

Explanation

RMS - Result Management System and RO - Returning officers

The RMS is offline software installed in a computer at RO office that also has a trained data entry operator. The RO receives results from presiding officers on Form 45, mostly hard copies and the operator enters results in RMS

RTS - Result Transmission System

The RTS is an entirely different system meant to transmit Form 45 from polling stations to RO offices and the ECP Secretariat using a smartphone

RY4-12-2022

Explanation

2018 Election was the 11th General Elections in Pakistan held on 25 July 2018.

Explanation

The 2021 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa local elections in 19 December 2021

The first phase of the election was held in 17 districts.

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) won the most seats.

On 13 February 2022 re-voting of the first phase was held in 13 different districts

while

In the second phase, PTI won the most vote by 31 seats while JUI (F) won 5 seats and Independent won 12 seats.

Explanation

The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) candidate, Zubair Ali won the seat for the coveted post of Peshawar mayor

Zubair Ali won the seat the in the first local government elections held in Khyber Pakhtun­khwa in December 2021.