1962 East Pakistan Provincial Assembly election

none Pakistan parliamentary 1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election 1954 1965 East Pakistan Provincial Assembly election 1965 150 of the 155 seats in the Provincial Assembly 1962 List of members of the 2nd 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 May 1962 as part of the wider provincial elections.http://pu.edu.pk/images/journal/studies/PDF-FILES/Artical%20-%205.pdf Electoral Politics in Pakistan (1955-1969) Tahir Kamran 91 Background The East Pakistan Provincial Assembly had been suspended in 1958 after President Iskandar Ali Mirza introduced martial law. A new constitution was adopted in 1962, which 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 were reserved for women, who were elected by the 150 elected members divided into five constituencies. 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 Elections were to be held on a non-partisan basis. Aftermath Elections to the National Assembly were held at the same time and the newly elected National Assembly convened for its first meeting on 8 June. Martial law was ended,https://books.google.com/books?id=jOqLi_6ER8IC&pg=PA289 The Commonwealth Relations Office Year Book, Volume 13 1964 289–291 and political parties were allowed to reform after the passing of the Political Parties Bill on 17 July. In East Pakistan this included the Awami League of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the National Awami Party of Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani. References East Pakistan Category:Elections in East Pakistan Category:Non-partisan elections Category:Indirect elections in Pakistan