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Pakistani general election, 1988

Pakistani general election, 1988
Pakistan
← 1985 16 November 1988 1990 →

All 237 members were elected
119 seats needed for a majority
Turnout 43.5% (Decrease 9.4%)
  First party Second party
  Benazir bhutto 1988 cropped.jpg Nawaz Sharif detail, 981203-D-9880W-117.jpg
Leader Benazir Bhutto Nawaz Sharif
Party PPP IJI
Leader since 1984 1988
Leader's seat Larkana Lahore
Seats won 94 56
Popular vote 7,546,561 5,908,741
Percentage 38.5% 30.2%

Prime minister before election

Mohammad Khan Junejo

Elected Prime minister

Benazir Bhutto
PPP


Mohammad Khan Junejo

Benazir Bhutto
PPP

General elections were held in Pakistan on 16 November 1988, electing the 336 members of the National Assembly and 100 members of the Senate. The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), led by Benazir Bhutto, ousted the technocratic of General Zia-ul-Haq, winning 94 of the 207 seats in the National Assembly. This was the second of four non-consecutive victories for the PPP and saw Benazir became Pakistan's – and the Muslim world's — first female head of government. Nawaz Sharif took the office of Leader of Opposition

Voter turnout was 43.5%.

Parliamentary elections had been held on 7 March 1977, with the PPP gaining a two-thirds majority. However, amid violence and civil disorder, Chief of Army Staff General Zia-ul-Haq ousted the former Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in a military coup on 5 June, code-named Operation Fair Play. Martial law was lifted in 1985 when non-partisan and technocratic elections were held, resulting in Mohammad Junejo, a Sindhi lord, being appointed Prime Minister.


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