1970 Pakistani general election in Balochistan

1970 Pakistani general election in Balochistan

7 December 1970
5 seats from Balochistan in the National Assembly
Turnout	40.55
First party Second party   NAP-W JUI-WP Leader Abdul Wali Khan Mufti Mahmud Party NAP(W) Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Leader since 1967 1968 Leader's seat None (Contested from NW-8 Hazara) None (Contested from NW-13 D.I Khan) Seats won 3 1 Seat change 3 1 Popular vote 1,68,804 74,651 Percentage 43.54% 19.25% Swing 43.54 19.25

General Elections were held in Balochistan on Monday 7 December 1970 to elect 5 Members of the 5th National Assembly of Pakistan. Out of 5 National Assembly seats 4 were General seats and 1 was reserved for women.

National Awami Party (Wali) emerged as the majority party in Balochistan by winning 4 seats, including the seat reserved for women. Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (West Pakistan) won the other remaining seat and became the 2nd largest party.

Result

Vote Share of different parties in the election.

  NAP-Wali (43.54%)

  JUI-WP (19.25%)

  CML (10.58%)

  PML (Qayyum) (10.53%)

  PPP (2.29%)

  JI (1.12%)

  Other Parties (2.40%)

  IND (6.55%)

Seat Share of different parties in the election.

  NAP-Wali (75%)

  JUI-WP (25%)

Party		Votes	%	Seats
				General	Woman	Total
	National Awami Party (Wali)	168,804	45.23	3	1	4
	Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam	74,651	20.00	1	0	1
	Council Muslim League	41,030	10.99	0	0	0
	Pakistan Muslim League (Qayyum)	40,827	10.94	0	0	0
	Pakistan Peoples Party	8,869	2.38	0	0	0
	Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan	4,331	1.16	0	0	0
	Other parties	9,323	2.50	0	0	0
	Independents	25,405	6.81	0	0	0
Total		373,240	100.00	4	1	5
Valid votes		373,240	96.27
Invalid/blank votes		14,477	3.73
Total votes		387,717	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		956,045	40.55
Source: Election Pakistani

By constituency

	Assembly Constituency	Winner					Runner-up					Margin		Turnout
		Candidate	Party		Votes		Candidate	Party		Votes
					No.	%				No.	%	No.	%	%
1	NW-135 Quetta-I	Molvi Abdul Haq		JUI-WP	32,065	43.51	Mir M. Younas		IND	20,226	27.44	11,839	16.07	34.38
2	NW-136 Quetta-II	Khair Bakhsh Mari		NAP-Wali	106,913	61.22	Mir Taj M. Khan Jamali		CML	34,672	19.85	72,241	41.37	52.75
3	NW-137 Kalat-I	Dr. Abdul Hayee Baloch		NAP-Wali	32,561	45.16	M. Umar		JUI-WP	15,765	21.86	16,796	23.30	33.00
4	NW-138 Kalat-II	Mir Ghous Bakhsh Bazanjo		NAP-Wali	29,330	43.60	Shahzada Mohyuddin		PML (Qayyum)	22,866	33.99	6,464	9.61	35.01