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Pakistani general election, 2013
2008 ← on 11 May 2013 [1]
→ 2018
All 342 seats to the National Assembly
172 seats needed for a majority Leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Nawaz Sharif Imran Khan
Party PPP PML (N) PTI
Leader since 30 December 2007 16 November 1988 25 April 1996
Leader 's seat Larkana Lahore Mianwali
Last election 121 seats, 35.3% 91 seats, 26.6% Did not participate
Incumbent Prime Minister
Mir Hazar Khan Khoso
Independent
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The Pakistani General Election of 2013 (Urdu: پاکستان کے عام انتخابات ۲۰۱۳) will be the next election to the 14th parliament of Pakistan. The government of Pakistan has announced elections to be held on 11 May 2013.[2] In the general election, voting will take place in all parliamentary constituencies of Pakistan, to elect Members to seats in the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament and to the four Provincial Assemblies (Punjab Assembly,Sindh Assembly, Baluchistan Assembly and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly). The current National and Provincial Assemblies will complete its constitutional term on or before March 16, 2013, five years after the first session of the National Assemblies elected during the 2008 general election. Elections must be subsequently held within 60 days of parliament having been dissolved.[3] This will be the 11th
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