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General elections were held in Pakistan on 25 July 2018. Since the previous general election, several pollsters conducted opinion polls at both the national and provincial levels.

Graphical summaries

Each coloured line specifies a political party and how strong their voting intention is nationwide for the National Assembly, based on a 3 point moving average. Parties which poll below 10% are not shown.
  Pakistan Muslim League (N)
  Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
  Pakistan Peoples Party

Nationwide voting intention

Voting intention polls conducted since 2013 for the National Assembly.

Date Pollster Publisher Sample PML-N PTI PPP MQM-P MMA* ANP Others Lead
class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Muttahida Qaumi Movement/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Awami National Party/meta/color; width:60px;"|
25 July 2018 Election 2018 ECP 53,123,733 24.35% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|31.82% 13.01% 1.38% 4.81% 1.53% 22.98% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|7.47%
12 Jul 2018 SDPI[1] Herald 6,004 25% 29% 20% — 3% 1% 20% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color" |4%
04 Jul 2018 IPOR[2] GSP 3,735 32% 29% 13% 2% 3% 1% 20% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color" |3%
06 Jun 2018 Gallup Pakistan[3] Geo/Jang 3,000 26% 25% 16% — 2% 1% 30% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color" |1%
28 May 2018 Pulse Consultant[3] 3,163 27% 30% 17% 1% 4% 1% 20% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color" |3%
May 2018 Gallup Pakistan[4] Self 3,000 38% 25% 15% 22% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color" |13%
Mar 2018 Gallup Pakistan[5] WSJ 2,000 36% 24% 17% 23% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color" |12%
01 Nov 2017 Gallup Pakistan[6] Geo/Jang 3,000 34% 26% 15% 2% 2% 2% 19% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|8%
25 Oct 2017 Pulse Consultant[6] 3,243 36% 23% 15% 2% 1% 1% 22% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color|13%
24 Oct 2017 IPOR[7][8] GSP 4,540 38% 27% 17% 3% 1% 1% 14% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color|11%
24 Apr 2017 Gallup Pakistan[9] Self 1,400 36% 25% 16% 2% 3% 2% 16% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|11%
38% 22% 17% 2% 2% 2% 14% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|16%
27 Aug 2015 SDPI[10][11] 3,014 27% 33% 14% 1% 2% 1% 20% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|6%
17 Jul 2014 SDPI[12] Herald 1,354 17% 33% 19% 5% 3% 3% 18% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|14%
11 May 2013 Election 2013[13] ECP 45,388,404 style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|32.77% 16.92% 15.23% 5.41% 3.22% 1.00% 25.57% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|15.85%

*Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal is an alliance of Islamist political parties, formed in 2002 and dissolved after the 2008 elections. The restoration of this alliance occurred in December 2017. Polls conducted before the restoration show the sum for Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F), the major political party in this alliance.

Province-wide voting intention

Voting intention polls conducted for each of the provinces. If a party has N/A listed in the poll, this indicates it is in the 'Others' section of the poll. If a certain poll result is bolded, this indicates that the option has achieved over 50% of the vote.

Punjab

Date Pollster Legislature type PML (N) PTI PPP Others Lead
class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color; width:60px;"|
25 July 2018 Election 2018 Provincial 31.8% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|33.7% 5.4% 29.1% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|1.9%
12 Jul 2018 SDPI[1] unspecified 40% 33% 7% 20% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|7%
04 Jul 2018 IPOR[2] National 50% 31% 5% 14% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|19%
06 Jun 2018 Gallup Pakistan[3] unspecified 40% 26% 6% 28% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|14%
02 Jun 2018 IPOR[14] unspecified 51% 30% 5% 14% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|21%
28 May 2018 Pulse Consultant[3] unspecified 43% 34% 5% 18% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|9%
01 Nov 2017 Gallup Pakistan[6] unspecified 50% 31% 5% 14% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|19%
25 Oct 2017 Pulse Consultant[6] unspecified 55% 20% 7% 18% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|35%
24 Oct 2017 IPOR[8] National 58% 23% 6% 13% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|35%
27 Aug 2015 SDPI[10][11] National 38% 35% 7% 20% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|3%
17 Jul 2014 SDPI[12] Provincial 25% 43% 11% 21% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|18%
11 May 2013 Election 2013[13] Provincial style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|40.8% 17.8% 8.8% 32.6% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|23.0%

Sindh

Date Pollster Legislature type PPP MQM (P) GDA* PTI PML (N) Others Lead
class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Muttahida Qaumi Movement/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color; width:60px;"|
25 July 2018 Election 2018 Provincial style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color; color:white"|38.4% 7.7% 14.9% 14.2% 2.4% 22.4% style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color; color:white"|23.5%
12 Jul 2018 SDPI[1] unspecified 54% 2% 10% 14% 4% 16% style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color; color:white"|40%
04 Jul 2018 IPOR[2] National 35% 7% 5% 18% 10% 25% style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color; color:white"|17%
06 Jun 2018 Gallup Pakistan[3] unspecified 44% — 9% 4% 43% style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color; color:white"|35%
28 May 2018 Pulse Consultant[3] unspecified 45% 5% — 11% 4% 35% style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color; color:white"|34%
01 Nov 2017 Gallup Pakistan[6] unspecified 44% 10% — 11% 35% style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color; color:white"|33%
25 Oct 2017 Pulse Consultant[6] unspecified 46% 7% — 10% — 37% style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color; color:white"|36%
24 Oct 2017 IPOR[8] National 52% 11% 2% 14% 12% 7% style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color; color:white"|38%
27 Aug 2015 SDPI[10][11] National 41% 5% — 21% 13% 20% style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color; color:white"|20%
17 July 2014 SDPI[12] Provincial 50% 20% 5% 25% style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color; color:white"|30%
11 May 2013 Election 2013[13] Provincial style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color; color:white"|32.6% 25.5% 11.6% 6.2% 6.0% 18.1% style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color; color:white"|7.1%

*The “Grand Democratic Alliance” is an alliance of political parties which was formed in late 2017. Polls before this show the sum for PML-F, the major party in this alliance before its formation

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Date Pollster Legislature type PTI PML (N) MMA ANP Others Lead
class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Awami National Party/meta/color; width:60px;"|
25 July 2018 Election 2018 Provincial style="background:Template:PTI/meta/color"|32.3% 9.9% 17.1% 12.2% 28.5% style="background:Template:PTI/meta/color"|15.2%
12 Jul 2018 SDPI[1] unspecified 43% 10% 11% 6% 30% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|31%
04 Jul 2018 IPOR[2] National 45% 12% 6% 8% 29% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|33%
06 Jun 2018 Gallup Pakistan[3] unspecified 57% 9% 6% 6% 22% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|48%
28 May 2018 Pulse Consultant[3] unspecified 57% 10% 9% 7% 17% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|47%
01 Nov 2017 Gallup Pakistan[6] unspecified 47% 10% 43% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|37%
25 Oct 2017 Pulse Consultant[6] unspecified 53% 13% 34% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|40%
24 Oct 2017 IPOR[8] National 62% 10% 1% 5% 22% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|52%
27 Aug 2015 SDPI[10][11] National 50% 15% 7% 7% 21% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|35%
17 Jul 2014 SDPI[12] Provincial 40% — 13% 12% 35% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|27%
11 May 2013 Election 2013[13] Provincial style="background:Template:PTI/meta/color"|19.3% 15.9% 13.6% 10.3% 40.9% style="background:Template:PTI/meta/color"|3.4%

Balochistan

Date Pollster Legislature type MMA PMAP PML (N) BNP NP PPP ANP PTI BAP Other's Lead
class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:National Party (Pakistan)/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Awami National Party/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Balochistan Awami Party/meta/color; width:60px;"|
25 July 2018 Election 2018 Provincial 14.9% 1.5% 6.5% 7.0% 4.9% 3.1% 2.7% 6.0% style="background:Template:Balochistan Awami Party/meta/color"|24.6% 28.8% style="background:Template:Balochistan Awami Party/meta/color"|9.7%
12 Jul 2018 SDPI[1] unspecified 8% 4% 11% 6% — 15% — 11% 45% style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color;color:white"|4%
04 Jul 2018 IPOR[2] National 12% 10% 5% 5% 5% 16% 4% 8% 7% 35% style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color;color:white"|4%
06 Jun 2018 Gallup Pakistan[3] unspecified 23% 9% 2% 14% 11% 20% 4% 5% 12% 3%
28 May 2018 Pulse Consultant[3] unspecified 11% 4% 2% 6% 5% 36% 3% 12% 7% 14% style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color;color:white"|24%
01 Nov 2017 Gallup Pakistan[6] unspecified 22% 18% 16% 13% 5% 7% 4% 5% — 10% 4%
25 Oct 2017 Pulse Consultant[6] unspecified 5% 0% 39% 8% 0% 5% 7% 21% 15% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|18%
24 Oct 2017 IPOR[8] National — 6% 15% 8% 1% 9% 2% 33% 26% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|18%
27 Aug 2015 SDPI[10][11] National 18% — 5% — 10% 12% 4% 51% 6%
17 July 2014 SDPI[12] Provincial — 23% 22% — 14% 41% 1%
11 May 2013 Election 2013[13] Provincial 15.8% 12.8% 10.3% 6.2% 5.8% 4.0% 2.4% 1.8% — 40.9% 3.0%

Constituency-wide voting intention

Colour key

  † Exit Poll

  ‡ By election result

NA-28 (Peshawar-II)

Date Pollster Sample PTI PML (N) JI ANP PPP Others Lead
class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Jamaat-e-Islami/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Awami National Party/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color; width:60px;"|
26 Oct 2017‡ By-election 2017 131,298 style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|34.8% 18.9% 5.4% 18.9% 10.0% 12.1% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|15.9%
26 Oct 2017† CPDI[15] 1,742 43% 16% 8% 20% 9% 6% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|23%
19 Oct 2017 IPOR[16] 1,313 41% 18% 4% 9% 9% 19% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|25%
11 May 2013 Election 2013[13] 138,555 style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|39.8% 14.7% 11.9% 11.4% 8.7% 13.5% style="background:Template:PTI/meta/color"|25.1%

NA-63 (Rawalpindi-VII)

Date Pollster Sample PTI Ind (Ch.) PML (N) PPP Others Lead
class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color; width:60px;"|
25 July 2018 Election 2018 215,669 style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|46.8% 30.5 10.7% 1.2% 10.8% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|16.3%
28 Feb 2018 IPOR[17] 598 37% 41% 2% 20% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|4%
11 May 2013 Election 2013[13] 236,624 style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|46.6% 43.2% 6.3% 3.9% style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color"|3.4%

NA-125 (Lahore-III)

Date Pollster Sample PML (N) PTI Others Lead
class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color; width:60px;"| class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color; width:60px;"|
25 July 2018 Election 2018 250,254 style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color|48.9% 42.3% 8.8% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color|7.6%
17 September 2017‡ By-election 2017 125,129 style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color|49.4% 37.6% 13.0% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color|11.8%
17 September 2017† CPDI[18] 1,433 46% 40% 14% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color|6%
12 September 2017 Pulse Consultant[19] 1,520 62% 23% 15% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color|39%
10 September 2017 Gallup Pakistan[20] 1,500 53% 29% 18% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color|24%
06 September 2017 IPOR[21] 2,198 49% 34% 17% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color|15%
11 May 2013 Election 2013[13] 153,328 style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color|60.5% 34.6% 4.9% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color|25.9%

Polling on Politicians

Disqualification/Resignation of Nawaz Sharif

Date Pollster Sample Agree
(Right) 		Disagree
(Wrong) 		Don’t Know Lead
05 April 2018 Gallup Pakistan[22] 1,586 53% 40% 7% 13%
01 Nov 2017 Gallup Pakistan[6] 3,000 55% 33% 11% 22%
54% 31% 15% 23%
25 Oct 2017 Pulse Consultant[6] 3,243 48% 31% 21% 17%
47% 28% 25% 19%
24 Oct 2017 GSP[8] 4,540 65% 33% 2% 32%
69% 28% 3% 39%
28 July 2017 Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is disqualified from office by the Supreme Court

Nawaz Sharif vs Imran Khan

Date Pollster Nawaz Sharif Imran Khan Don’t Know Lead
May 2018 Gallup Pakistan[4] 50% 45% 5% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|5%
March 2018 Gallup Pakistan[5] 49% 46% 5% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|3%
(undefined) 2017 Gallup Pakistan[5] 51% 39% 10% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|12%
(undefined) 2016 Gallup Pakistan[5] 57% 37% 6% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|20%
(undefined) 2015 Gallup Pakistan[5] 59% 35% 6% style="background:Template:Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color"|24%

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