1970 Pakistani general election in East Pakistan

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][3]

7 December 1970

169 seats from East Pakistan in the National Assembly

Registered

29,479,386

Turnout

57.68%

	First party	Second party

Leader	Sheikh Mujibur Rahman	Nurul Amin
Party	AL	PDP
Leader's seat	Dacca-VIII	Mymensingh-VIII
Seats won	167	1
Popular vote	12,338,921	483,571
Percentage	74.9%	2.9%

Map of Pakistan showing National Assembly Constituencies and winning partes

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Results

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.[4]

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

References

Kaushik & Patnayak 1995, p. 295.
Harun-or- Rashid (2012). "Rahman, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
Meghna Guhathakurta and Willem van Schendel (2003). The Bangladesh Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Duke University Press. p. 264. ISBN 978-0822353188.
Bangladesher Nirbachan 1970-2001 by A S M Samsul Arefin, Bangladesh Research and Publications, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2003, page-23

Works cited

Kaushik, S. L.; Patnayak, Rama (1995). Modern Governments and Political Systems: governments and politics in South Asia.

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