1965 East Pakistan Provincial Assembly election

none February 2026 Pakistan parliamentary 1962 East Pakistan Provincial Assembly election 1962 1970 East Pakistan Provincial Assembly election 1970 150 of the 155 seats in the Provincial Assembly May 1965 Lal Mia 1.jpg Muazzem Hussein Chowdhury Convention Muslim League 66 3x4.svg Abdul Malek Ukil Combined Opposition Parties 23 List of members of the 4th Provincial Assembly of East Pakistan List of members of the 3rd Provincial Assembly of East Pakistan Provincial Assembly elections were held in East Pakistan in 1965 as part of the wider provincial elections. Background The 1962 constitution provided for an indirectly elected 155-seat Provincial Assembly, of which 150 seats were elected from single-member constituencies by electoral colleges under the "basic democracy" system, and five seats reserved for women, who were elected by the 150 elected members divided into five constituencies.https://books.google.com/books?id=jOqLi_6ER8IC&pg=PA289 The Commonwealth Relations Office Year Book, Volume 13 1964 289–291 In East Pakistan there were 40,000 members of the electoral college.https://books.google.com/books?id=bJfcCPUr0OoC&pg=PR54 Historical Dictionary of Bangladesh Syedur Rahman 2010 liv Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-7453-4 The electoral college members were elected on 21 November 1964.http://pu.edu.pk/images/journal/studies/PDF-FILES/Artical%20-%205.pdf Electoral Politics in Pakistan (1955-1969) Tahir Kamran 92 Results List of members of the 4th Provincial Assembly of East Pakistan After around 900 potential candidates submitted nomination papers, a total of 666 candidates contested the elections, with two constituencies returning a single candidate unopposed.M. Rashiduzzaman https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/24222743.pdf Indirect elections in Pakistan Zeitschrift für Politik 1968 15 3 326–336 24222743 Around half of the independents elected were backed by opposition parties.https://www-jstor.org/stable/pdf/2642133.pdf The Assembly Elections in Pakistan Sharif al-Mujahid Asian Survey November 1965 5 11 538–551 10.2307/2642133 2642133 Convention Muslim League 14144 66 All-Pakistan Awami League 5863 6 11 National Awami Party 4 Council Muslim League 3 National Democratic Front 3 Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan 1 Nizam-e-Islam Party 1 Other parties 942 0 Independents 16284 58 Vacant 3 Al-MujahidAl-Mujahid References East Pakistan Category:Elections in Bangladesh Category:Elections in East Pakistan Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Category:Indirect elections in Pakistan