Country: | Gilgit-Baltistan |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | yes |
Previous Election: | 2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election |
Previous Year: | 2020 |
Election Date: | 24 January 2025 |
Seats For Election: | 24 of the 33 seats in the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly |
Majority Seats: | 17 |
Previous Mps: | List of members of the 3rd Assembly of Gilgit-Baltistan |
Image1: | Flag of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.svg |
Leader1: | Khalid Khurshid |
Leader Since1: | 30 May 2022 |
Party1: | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf |
Leaders Seat1: | Astore-I |
Last Election1: | 22 seats |
Image3: | PMLN 2021 Flag.png |
Leader3: | Hafiz Hafeezur Rehman |
Party3: | Pakistan Muslim League (N) |
Leader Since3: | 6 February 2015 |
Leaders Seat3: | Gilgit-II |
Last Election3: | 3 seats |
Seats Needed3: | 14 |
Leader2: | Amjad Hussain Azar |
Leader Since2: | 9 December 2015 |
Party2: | Pakistan Peoples Party |
Leaders Seat2: | Gilgit-I |
Last Election2: | 5 seats |
Seats Needed2: | 13 |
Chief Minister | |
Before Election: | Gulbar Khan |
Before Party: | PTI |
Seats Before1: | 21 |
Seats Before2: | 4 |
Seats Before3: | 3 |
Assembly elections are scheduled to be held in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan, no more than 60 days after the dissolution of the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly, which is set to dissolve on 25 November 2024, unless dissolved earlier: in which case the election shall be held within 90 days after dissolution. This means that the election must be held by or before 24 January 2025.
Following the elections in 2020, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) emerged as the largest party after winning 16 of the 24 general seats in the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly, and securing a two-thirds supermajority in the assembly after six women representatives (four who went to the PTI) and the three technocrats (two who went to the PTI) were added with a final total of 22 out of 33 seats. Khalid Khurshid was elected as the Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan. The PTI became the first party in the history of Gilgit-Baltistan to secure a two-thirds majority.[1]