Pakistani general elections, 1990

Pakistan General Elections, 1990

1988 ← 24 October 1990 → 1993

All 207 seats contested 104 seats seats needed for a majority Turnout 45.5%   First party Second party   Leader Nawaz Sharif Benazir Bhutto Party IDA PPP Leader since 1988 1982 Leader's seat Lahore Larkana Last election 55, 30.2% 94, 38.5% Seats before 55 94 Seats after 111 44 Seat change 56 50 Popular vote 7,908,513 7,795,218 Percentage 37.4% 36.8% Swing 7.2% 1.7%

Prime minister before election Benazir Bhutto PPP Elected Prime minister Nawaz Sharif IDA

Benazir Bhutto
PPP

Nawaz Sharif
IDA

The Pakistan General elections, 1990 took place on 24 October 1990 to elect 217 MPs to the Pakistan Parliament, and resulted in surprise victory of Islamic Democratic Alliance (IDA), a massive conservative front led under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif. The IDA compete for the Prime minister secretariat and initially campaign on privatisation and national conservative polices, meanwhile the MQM, a liberal front, led under Altaf Hussain tightened its support in Sindh Province. The result was a victory for Islami Jamhoori Ittehad, which won 106 of the 207 seats. Voter turnout was 45.5%. On 19 October 2012 the Supreme Court of Pakistan ruled on the 'Asghar Khan Petition' – a petition by Retd. Air Marshal Asghar Khan, heading up the Tehreek-i-Insaaf Party, requesting the court to probe into allegations that the 1990 elections were rigged. The court officially ruled that two Army Generals – Mirza Aslam Baig and Asad Durrani (Head of the ISI) – along with President Ghulam Ishaq Khan provided financial assistance to favoured parties. The motive, as was decreed by the SC, was to deliberately weaken the mandate of the Pakistan Peoples Party. It was believed that the PPP, led by Benazir Bhutto, was a liability to the nation.

The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) led by Benazir Bhutto won a plurality of seats in the 1988 election and Bhutto became Prime Minister. However by 1990 there was discontent over rising lawlessness, allegations of corruption and the failure of the government to fulfill the promises it had made during the 1988 campaign.

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