| Election Name: | 2013 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election |
| Country: | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2008 North-West Frontier Province provincial election |
| Previous Year: | 2008 |
| Next Year: | 2018 |
| Next Election: | 2018 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election |
| Seats For Election: | All 124 seats in the Provincial Assembly |
| Majority Seats: | 63 |
| Election Date: | 11 May 2013 |
| Turnout: | 44.74%(11.28%)[1] |
| Leader1: | Pervez Khattak |
| Party1: | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf |
| Leaders Seat1: | Nowshera-II |
| Last Election1: | Did not contest |
| Popular Vote1: | 1,039,719 |
| Percentage1: | 19.31% |
| Seats1: | 48 |
| Seat Change1: | 48 |
| Swing1: | 19.31% |
| Leader2: | Maulana Lutfur Rehman |
| Party2: | Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) |
| Leaders Seat2: | Dera Ismail Khan-III |
| Last Election2: | 14 seats, 14.63% |
| Popular Vote2: | 733,777 |
| Percentage2: | 13.63% |
| Seats2: | 16 |
| Seat Change2: | 2 |
| Swing2: | 1.00% |
| Leader3: | Mehtab Abbasi |
| Party3: | Pakistan Muslim League (N) |
| Leaders Seat3: | Did not contest |
| Last Election3: | 9 seats, 12.83% |
| Popular Vote3: | 856,135 |
| Percentage3: | 15.90% |
| Seats3: | 15 |
| Seat Change3: | 6 |
| Swing3: | 3.07% |
| Chief Minister | |
| Posttitle: | Elected Chief Minister |
| Before Party: | Awami National Party |
| After Election: | Pervez Khattak |
| After Party: | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf |
Provincial elections were held in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to elect the members of the 10th Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on 11 May 2013, alongside nationwide general elections and three other provincial elections in Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab. The remaining two territories of Pakistan, AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan, were ineligible to vote due to their disputed status.
In the 2008 elections, the ANP, a secular, leftist and Pashtun nationalist party, won the elections, prompting them to form a coalition government with the centre-left Pakistan Peoples Party.[2]
This coalition government was said to be riddled with corruption and poor governance, leading to common mistrust with the government.[3]
Overall throughout the campaign, there were three main contenders: Awami National Party, the party in government for the past five years; the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F), a religious party or the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, a welfarist, centrist party led by former cricketer Imran Khan.[4]
Opinion polls were consistently showing that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf were making deep inroads into the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, being close to even forming a government.[5]
The parties campaigned on multiple different policy platforms: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf campaigned on a Third Way, Welfarist and anti-establishment platform, attempting to attract disillusioned voters of mainstream parties;[6] the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) campaigned on religious issues such as the enforcement of Islamic Law and the Pakistan Muslim League (N) mainly campaigned against the leftist policies of the federal PPP government and vowed to tackle the energy conservation crisis.[7]
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, led by former cricketer Imran Khan emerged as the largest party in the province with 48 seats. While this was a considerably higher number than the second largest party, (Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F), with 16 seats), it was still 15 seats short of a majority government.
Following the elections, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf formed a coalition government with Jamaat-e-Islami and the Qaumi Watan Party, giving them 15 extra seats.[8] As well as this, 9 out of the 14 independents elected joined PTI, giving them a comfortable majority in the assembly.[9]
Following this, Pervez Khattak was elected as Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, securing 84 out of 124 votes.[10]
