# 2021 Azad Kashmiri general election

General elections were held in Azad Kashmir on 25 July 2021 after the expiry of the 5-year term of the previous Legislative Assembly. The elections were held in 33 constituencies of Azad Kashmir and 12 constituencies of the refugees of Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan.
By an early estimate, over 2.82 million people of Azad Kashmir were registered to vote; of which 1.59 million were male voters, while 1.30 million were female voters. By the time of the election, the number of registered voters had increased to 3,220,793.
A total of 724 candidates stood for 45 general seats this year. 579 candidates competed for the 33 constituencies within Azad Kashmir, while the remaining 145 competed for the 12 refugee constituencies in Pakistan.

## Background

In current elections The PTI won 26, the PPP 11 and PML N 6. In addition, AJ&K MC won 1 seats, JK PPP 1 seat.
Following these results, Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf was able to form a comfortable majority government, controlling 26 general seats and 6 reserved/technocrat seats, giving them 32 out of the 53 seats in the assembly.

## Addition of new seats

4 new seats were added in Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly. Muzaffarabad, Neelum, Sudhanoti/Poonch and Kotli districts gained an additional seats each, hence, the number of members in the Assembly of Azad Kashmir was elevated from 49 to 53. Therefore the new amount of seats needed for a majority became 27.

## Results

| 32 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| PTI | PPP | PML(N) | AJKMC | JKPP |
Vote Share of different parties in the election.
Seat Share of different parties in the election.
The polls were open across Azad Kashmir and Pakistan from 8:00 to 17:00 PST. The results of started to pour in after poll closings in the evening. The below table shows election results by political party.
| Party | Party | Votes | % | Seats | Seats | Seats | Seats | Seats |
| Party | Party | Votes | % | General | Women | Ulema Technocrat and Overseas | Total | Change |
| | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf | 613,590 | 31.35 | 26 | 3 | 3 | 32 | 30 |
| | Pakistan Peoples Party | 349,895 | 17.88 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 9 |
| | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | 491,091 | 25.09 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 24 |
| | All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference | 153,861 | 7.86 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| | Jammu Kashmir Peoples Party | 119,048 | 6.08 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| | Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan | 96,697 | 4.94 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| | Independents | 133,136 | 6.80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | Total | 1,957,318 | 100.00 | 45 | 5 | 3 | 53 | 4 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 1,957,318 | 99.14 | | | | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 17,000 | 0.86 | | | | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 1,974,318 | 100.00 | | | | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 3,220,793 | 61.30 | | | | | |
| Source: EC-AJK (Party Positions), (everything else) |||||||||

### By constituency

| Constituency | Constituency | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Runner-up | Runner-up | Runner-up | Runner-up | Runner-up | Margin | Registered Voters | Votes Cast | Voter Turnout |
| District | Name | Candidate | Party | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Party | Votes | % | Margin | Registered Voters | Votes Cast | Voter Turnout |
| Mirpur | LA-1 | Azhar Sadiq | | PTI | 14,233 | 37.08% | Chaudhry Masood Khalid | | PML(N) | 7,609 | 19.82% | 6,624 | 93,480 | 38,386 | 41.06% |
| Mirpur | LA-2 | Chaudhry Qasim Majeed | | PPP | 10,377 | 28.63% | Zafar Anwar | | PTI | 9,110 | 25.13% | 1,267 | 84,985 | 36,250 | 42.65% |
| Mirpur | LA-3 | Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry | | PTI | 18,703 | 43.51% | Muhammad Saeed | | PML(N) | 15,556 | 36.19% | 3,147 | 85,917 | 42,985 | 50.03% |
| Mirpur | LA-4 | Chaudhry Arshad Hussain | | PTI | 18,703 | 44.66% | Rukhsar Ahmed | | PML(N) | 20,984 | 41.16% | 1,784 | 87,040 | 50,984 | 58.58% |
| Bhimber | LA-5 | Waqar Ahmed Noor | | PML(N) | 21,799 | 36.54% | Pervaiz Ashraf | | PPP | 15,583 | 26.12% | 6,216 | 82,620 | 59,666 | 72.22% |
| Bhimber | LA-6 | Chaudhry Ali Shan Soni | | PTI | 24,946 | 39.80% | Muhammad Razzaq | | IND | 16,640 | 26.55% | 8,306 | 92,888 | 62,681 | 67.48% |
| Bhimber | LA-7 | Chaudhry Anwarul Haq | | PTI | 38,303 | 49.13% | Chaudhry Tariq Farooq | | PML(N) | 32,245 | 41.36% | 6,058 | 112,029 | 77,967 | 69.60 |
| Kotli | LA-8 | Zaffar Iqbal Malik | | PTI | 17,299 | 36.53% | Malik Muhammad Nawaz Khan | | AJKMC | 12,107 | 25.57% | 5,192 | 73,121 | 47,351 | 64.76% |
| Kotli | LA-9 | Chaudhry Javed Iqbal Budhanvi | | PPP | 24,276 | 43.35% | Sardar Muhammad Naeem Khan | | AJKMC | 19,484 | 34.79% | 4,792 | 84,622 | 56,000 | 66.18% |
| Kotli | LA-10 | Chaudhry Muhammad Yaseen | | PPP | 9,696 | 21.70% | Malik Muhammad Yousaf | | PTI | 9,507 | 21.28% | 189 | 70,533 | 44,674 | 63.34% |
| Kotli | LA-11 | Chaudhry Muhammad Ikhlaq | | PTI | 25,201 | 36.75% | Raja Muhammad Naseer | | PML(N) | 24,288 | 35.42% | 913 | 105,827 | 68,581 | 64.80% |
| Kotli | LA-12 | Chaudhry Muhammad Yaseen | | PPP | 21,527 | 31.71% | Muhammad Riasat Khan | | PML(N) | 20,081 | 29.58% | 1,446 | 106,428 | 67,880 | 63.78% |
| Kotli | LA-13 | Nisar Ansar | | PTI | 23,340 | 37.53% | Muhammad Waleed | | PPP | 17,554 | 28.22% | 5,786 | 96,220 | 62,194 | 64.64% |
| Bagh | LA-14 | Attique Ahmed Khan | | AJKMC | 25,389 | 37.65% | Muhammad Latif Khalique | | PTI | 17,056 | 25.29% | 8,333 | 102,491 | 67,437 | 65.80% |
| Bagh | LA-15 | Sardar Tanveer Ilyas | | PTI | 19,825 | 34.03% | Sardar Ziaul Qamar | | PPP | 14,558 | 24.99% | 5,267 | 96,561 | 58,257 | 60.33% |
| Bagh | LA-16 | Sardar Mir Akbar Khan | | PTI | 23,563 | 41.46% | Sardar Qamar uz Zaman Khan | | PPP | 23,267 | 40.94% | 296 | 87,814 | 56,828 | 64.71% |
| Bagh | LA-17 | Raja Faisal Mumtaz Rathore | | PPP | 30,085 | 41.96% | Chaudhry Muhammad Aziz | | PML(N) | 25,421 | 35.45% | 4,664 | 97,902 | 71,035 | 72.56% |
| Poonch | LA-18 | Abdul Qayyum Khan Niazi | | PTI | 24,232 | 40.44% | Chaudhry Muhammad Yasin Gulshan | | PML(N) | 15,769 | 26.32% | 8,463 | 94,508 | 59,921 | 63.40% |
| Poonch | LA-19 | Sardar Aamir Altaf Khan | | PML(N) | 13,413 | 25.69% | Saood bin Sadiq | | PPP | 12,517 | 23.97% | 896 | 85,778 | 52,221 | 60.88% |
| Poonch | LA-20 | Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan | | PPP | 11,925 | 32.98% | Abdul Rasheed Khan | | PML(N) | 4,883 | 13.50% | 7,042 | 64,099 | 36,162 | 56.42% |
| Poonch | LA-21 | Hassan Ibrahim Khan | | JKPP | 8,190 | 23.46% | Tahir Anwar Khan | | PML(N) | 6,198 | 17.75% | 1,992 | 88,220 | 34,915 | 39.58% |
| Poonch | LA-22 | Shahida Saghir | | PTI | 16,962 | 38.11% | Asad Ibrahim Khan | | JKPP | 10,582 | 23.77% | 6,380 | 84,676 | 44,511 | 52.57% |
| Sudhnoti | LA-23 | Sardar Muhammad Hussain Khan | | PTI | 22,519 | 32.85% | Muhammad Najeeb Naqi Khan | | PML(N) | 19,575 | 28.55% | 2,944 | 107,511 | 68,561 | 63.77% |
| Sudhnoti | LA-24 | Sardar Faheem Akhtar | | PTI | 30,727 | 47.26% | Sardar Farooq Ahmed Tahir | | PML(N) | 24,363 | 37.40% | 6,404 | 98,539 | 65,147 | 66.11% |
| Neelum | LA-25 | Shah Ghulam Qadir | | PML(N) | 14,341 | 33.24% | Mian Abdul Waheed | | PPP | 12,400 | 28.74% | 1,941 | 64,231 | 43,143 | 67.17% |
| Neelum | LA-26 | Mian Abdul Waheed | | PPP | 18,870 | 44.48% | Raja Muhammad Ilyas Khan | | PTI | 13,294 | 31.34% | 5,576 | 58,970 | 42,424 | 71.94% |
| Muzaffarabad | LA-27 | Sardar Muhammad Javed | | PPP | 26,441 | 43.17% | Mir Attique ur Rehman | | PTI | 19,677 | 32.12% | 6,674 | 87,706 | 61,254 | 69.84% |
| Muzaffarabad | LA-28 | Syed Bazal Ali Naqvi | | PPP | 26,011 | 43.32% | Chaudhry Shahzad Mehmood | | PTI | 21,873 | 36.43% | 4,138 | 81,511 | 60,037 | 73.66% |
| Muzaffarabad | LA-29 | Khawaja Farooq Ahmed | | PTI | 13,337 | 30.83% | Syed Iftikhar Gillani | | PML(N) | 10,557 | 24.40% | 2,780 | 63,594 | 43,263 | 68.03% |
| Muzaffarabad | LA-30 | Chaudhry Muhammad Rasheed | | PTI | 18,119 | 44.31% | Mustafa Bashir Abbasi | | PML(N) | 10,490 | 25.65% | 7,629 | 57,030 | 40,890 | 71.70% |
| Muzaffarabad | LA-31 | Chaudhry Latif Akbar | | PPP | 22,824 | 33.56% | Saqib Majeed Raja | | AJKMC | 21,481 | 31.58% | 1,343 | 106,580 | 68,015 | 63.82% |
| Hattian Bala | LA-32 | Raja Farooq Haider | | PML(N) | 15,598 | 32.31% | Muhammad Ashfaq Zaffar | | PPP | 15,204 | 31.49% | 394 | 70,865 | 48,278 | 68.13% |
| Hattian Bala | LA-33 | Dewan Ali Khan Chughtai | | PTI | 26,474 | 54.08% | Raja Farooq Haider | | PML(N) | 14,384 | 29.38% | 12,090 | 67,868 | 48,953 | 72.13% |
| Jammu & Others | LA-34 | Riaz Ahmed Gujjar | | PTI | 4,320 | 41.41% | Nasir Hussain Dar | | PML(N) | 3,545 | 33.98% | 775 | 18,542 | 10,433 | 56.54% |
| Jammu & Others | LA-35 | Maqbool Ahmed Gujjar | | PTI | 18,934 | 41.38% | Chaudhry Muhammad Ismail | | PML(N) | 16,855 | 36.84% | 2,079 | 85,247 | 45,756 | 55.43% |
| Jammu & Others | LA-36 | Hafiz Hamid Raza | | PTI | 22,096 | 41.30% | Muhammad Ishaq | | PML(N) | 20,467 | 38.26% | 1,629 | 93,804 | 53,500 | 57.03% |
| Jammu & Others | LA-37 | Muhammad Akmal Sargala | | PTI | 26,039 | 42.11% | Muhammad Siddique Chaudhry | | PML(N) | 25,726 | 41.61% | 313 | 95,694 | 61,833 | 64.62% |
| Jammu & Others | LA-38 | Muhammad Akbar Chaudhry | | PTI | 14,283 | 40.18% | Zeeshan Ali | | PML(N) | 8,755 | 30.76% | 5,528 | 48,504 | 28,461 | 58.68% |
| Jammu & Others | LA-39 | Raja Muhammad Siddqiue | | PML(N) | 9,557 | 42.69% | Nazia Niaz | | PTI | 7,510 | 33.54% | 2,047 | 36,455 | 22,389 | 61.42% |
| Kashmir Valley | LA-40 | Aamir Abdul Ghaffar Lone | | PPP | 2,165 | 61.73% | Muhammad Saleem Butt | | PTI | 875 | 24.95% | 1,290 | 5,327 | 3,507 | 65.83% |
| Kashmir Valley | LA-41 | Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Diwan | | PTI | 2,326 | 70.61% | Muhammad Ikram Butt | | PML(N) | 741 | 22.50% | 1,585 | 5,050 | 3,294 | 66.23% |
| Kashmir Valley | LA-42 | Muhammad Asim Sharif | | PTI | 1,254 | 43.86% | Syed Shoukat Ali Shah | | PML(N) | 1,205 | 42.15% | 49 | 4,461 | 2,859 | 64.09% |
| Kashmir Valley | LA-43 | Javed Butt | | PTI | 782 | 43.66% | Naseema Khatoon Wani | | PML(N) | 720 | 40.20% | 62 | 2,457 | 1,791 | 72.89% |
| Kashmir Valley | LA-44 | Muhammad Ahmad Raza Qadri | | PML(N) | 2,027 | 44.72% | Mehr un Nisa | | AJKMC | 1,195 | 26.36% | 832 | 6,340 | 4,533 | 71.50% |
| Kashmir Valley | LA-45 | Abdul Majid Khan | | PTI | 3,138 | 57.10% | Abdul Nasir Khan | | IND | 2,063 | 37.54% | 1,075 | 6,951 | 5,496 | 79.07% |