1947 Pakistani Constituent Assembly election

First Pakistani Constituent Assembly election
July 1947 (1947-07)
69 seats in the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan
36 seats needed for a majority
Registered425
  First party Second party
 
Leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah Kiran Shankar Roy
Party AIML INC
Leader since 1937 1947
Last election 73 208
Seats won 59 9
Seat change 14 120
Indian Head of State before election

Jawaharlal Nehru
INC

 Prime Minister of Pakistan

Liaquat Ali Khan
AIML

Before the independence of Pakistan in 1947, members of the first term of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan were selected through an indirect election held after June by the votes of the British Indian members of the provincial legislative assemblies.

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