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General elections were held in Azad Kashmir on 21 July 2016 to elect 41 members of the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly. Polling started at 8:00am and continued till 5:00pm without any break.
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Campaign
At least 423 candidates ran for the 41 seats, the main competition being between the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).
A total number of 5,427 polling stations were set up for election.
Results
A total of 2,674,586 people voted in the elections, of which 1,190,839 were female and 1,483,747 male.
The PML-N won 31, the PPP three and PTI two. In addition, AJ&K MC won 3 seats, JK PPP one seat and one seat was won by an independent.
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Azad Kashmir general election 2016 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA