Country: | East Pakistan |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Mps: | List of members of the 4th National Assembly of Pakistan |
Elected Mps: | elected members |
Previous Year: | 1946 |
Next Year: | 1973 |
Seats For Election: | 169 seats from East Pakistan in the National Assembly |
Registered: | 29,479,386 |
Turnout: | 57.68% |
Image1: | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1950.jpg |
Leader1: | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman |
Party1: | Awami League |
Leaders Seat1: | Dacca-VIII |
Popular Vote1: | 12,338,921 |
Percentage1: | 74.9% |
Seats1: | 167 |
Leader2: | Nurul Amin |
Party2: | Pakistan Democratic Party |
Leaders Seat2: | Mymensingh-VIII |
Seats2: | 1 |
Popular Vote2: | 483,571 |
Percentage2: | 2.9% |
General Elections were held in East Pakistan province on Monday 7 December 1970 to elect 169 Members of 5th National Assembly of Pakistan. Out of 169 National Assembly seats 162 were General seats and 7 was reserved for woman. Awami League won 167 out of 169 seats belonging to East Pakistan in the National Assembly of Pakistan, as well as a landslide in the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly.[1] [2]
The total number of voters were 29,479,386. The number of casting votes was 17,005,163 (57.68%), the valid casting votes was 16,454,278.[3]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Awami League | 12,338,921 | 74.9 | 160 | |
Jamaat-e-Islami | 991,908 | 6.0 | 0 | |
Pakistan Democratic Party | 483,571 | 2.9 | 1 | |
Convention Muslim League | 464,185 | 2.8 | 0 | |
National Awami Party (Wali) | 310,986 | 1.8 | 0 | |
Council Muslim League | 274,453 | 1.6 | 0 | |
Pakistan Muslim League (Qayyum) | 175,822 | 1.0 | 0 | |
Independent | 561,083 | 3.4 | 1 |