2008 Punjab provincial election

Election in Pakistan

Provincial elections were held in the Pakistani province of Punjab to elect the 15th Provincial Assembly of the Punjab on 18 February 2008, alongside nationwide general elections and three other provincial elections in Sindh, Balochistan and North-West Frontier Province. The remaining two territories of Pakistan, AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan, were ineligible to vote due to their disputed status.^[1]

← 2002

18 February 2008

2013 →

297 out of 371 seats in the Punjab Assembly^[a]
186 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

47.73^[2]

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Javed Hashmi	Raja Riaz Ahmad Khan	Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
Party	PML(N)	PPP	PML(Q)
Leader's seat	Did not contest	Faisalabad-XV	Mandi Bahauddin-III Bahawalnagar-VI (lost)
Last election	47 seats, 16.43%	79 seats, 22.48%	209 seats, 33.33%
Seats won	148	103	79
Seat change	101	24	130
Popular vote	5,597,569	5,565,743	5,837,922
Percentage	27.05%	26.89%	28.21%
Swing	10.62%	4.41%	5.12%

Elections map by constituency (expand to original file to see constituency labels)

Chief Minister before election

Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
PML(Q)

Elected Chief Minister

Dost Muhammad Khosa
PML(N)

Results


Party		Votes	%	Seats
Party		Votes	%	General	Women	Minority	Total
	Pakistan Muslim League (N)	5,597,569	27.05	114	30	4	148
	Pakistan Peoples Party	5,565,743	26.89	82	19	2	103
	Pakistan Muslim League (Q)	5,837,922	28.21	61	16	2	79
	Pakistan Muslim League (F)	182,753	0.88	2	1	0	3
	Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal	160,715	0.78	2	0	0	2
	Other parties	86,679	0.42	1	0	0	1
	Independents	3,264,061	15.77	34	0	0	34
Total		20,695,442	100.00	297	66	8	371

Registered voters/turnout		43,780,458	–

Aftermath

In the 2008 elections, the PML (N) and the PPP formed a coalition government, with PML (N) as the senior party and Shehbaz Sharif as Chief Minister of Punjab. However, in 2011, the PPP was expelled from this coalition due to corruption in the Federal Government, (which was led by the PPP at the time).^[3]

Notes

^ 66 seats are reserved for women and 8 are reserved for non-Muslims filled through PR

References

^ "Punjab Assembly General Election 2008 - Results & Party Position". UrduPoint. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
^ Election Commission of Pakistan. "GENERAL ELECTIONS - 2013 PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLIES TURNOUT". Election Commission of Pakistan.
^ "Pakistan's PPP and PML-N to form coalition government -- china.org.cn". www.china.org.cn. Retrieved 2023-04-19.