Introducion

Parliament (Majlis-e-Shoora) consists of the President and two Houses to be known respectively as the National Assembly and the Senate. The number of National Assembly seats for each Federating Unit is given below:

Under the Conduct of General Elections Order 2002, (Chief Executive’s Order No. 7 of 2002) the number of seats in the Senate, National Assembly of Pakistan and the Provincial Assemblies of Punjab, Sindh, NWFP and Balochistan was increased. In order to provide the reader with comparative information, the existing and previous strength of the Senate, National Assembly and the four Provincial Assemblies is given hereunder in tabulated forms:

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SENATE

NUMBER OF SEATS
EXISTING					PREVIOUS
Province/Area	General Seats	Seats reserved for		Total	General Seats	Ulema, Technocrats and other professionals	Total
Province/Area	General Seats	Women	Technocrats and Ulema	Total	General Seats	Ulema, Technocrats and other professionals	Total
Federal Capital	2	1	1	4	3	-	3
Punjab	14	4	4	22	14	5	19
Sindh	14	4	4	22	14	5	19
NWFP	14	4	4	22	14	5	19
FATAs	8	-	-	8	8	-	8
Balochistan	14	4	4	22	14	5	19
Total	66	17	17	100	67	20	87

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NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

NUMBER OF SEATS
EXISTING					PREVIOUS
Province/Area	General Seats	Seats reserved for		Total	General Seats	Seats reserved for Non Muslims
Province/Area	General Seats	Non Muslims	Women	Total	General Seats	Seats reserved for Non Muslims
Federal Capital	2	10	-	2	1	10
Punjab	148		35	183	115
Sindh	61		14	75	46
NWFP	35		8	43	26
FATAs	12		-	12	8
Balochistan	14		3	17	11
Total	272	10	60	332+10=342	207	207+10=217

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PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLIES

The number of Provincial Assemblies seats for each province is given below:

PROVINCIAL SEATS

NUMBER OF SEATS
EXISTING					PREVIOUS
Province	General Seats	Seats reserved for		Total	General Seats	Seats reserved for Non Muslims
Province	General Seats	Non Muslims	Women	Total	General Seats	Seats reserved for Non Muslims
Punjab	297	8	66	371	240	8
Sindh	130	9	29	168	100	9
NWFP	99	3	22	124	80	3
Balochistan	51	3	11	65	40	3
Total	577	23	128	728	460	460+23=483

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