1947 Pakistani Constituent Assembly election

1947 indirect election in British India February 2026 1947 Pakistan Constituent Assembly election Pakistan parliamentary no 1946 Indian Constituent Assembly election 1946 1955 Pakistani Constituent Assembly election 1955 List of members of the 1st Constituent Assembly of Pakistan 1947 07 69 seats in the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan 425 35 Jinnah1945c.jpg 70 70 100 0 Muhammad Ali Jinnah 1937 All-India Muslim League 73 59 14 Kiran Shankar Roy.jpg 75 70 100 0 Kiran Shankar Roy 1947 Indian National Congress 9 208 199 Head of the Interim Government of British India Prime Minister of Pakistan Jawaharlal Nehru Indian National Congress Liaquat Ali Khan All-India Muslim League Before the independence of Pakistan in 1947, members of the first term of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan were elected through an indirect election held after June by the votes of the members of the legislative assemblies of Assam, Bengal, and Punjab. Representatives from Baluchistan, the North-West Frontier, and Sind were taken directly through the earlier 1946 Constituent Assembly elections.Second Constituent Assembly of Pakistan: Politics for Dissolution of Former Assembly and Electoral Regulations for New Assembly 49–57 2020 3 3 27066525 10.36902/sjesr-vol3-iss3-2020(49-57) Rizwan Ullah Kokab Ali Shan Shah Tariq Aziz Sir Syed Journal of Education & Social Research free Background Pakistan Movement In 1946, after the provincial elections were held in British India, the British government sent a Cabinet Mission to the colony. The mission proposed the formation of an Indian confederacy, where autonomous states would have the authority to frame their own constitutions in unitary groups. Following the Constituent Assembly election later that year, the Constituent Assembly of India was formed. Indian National Congress, the largest member party, initially accepted the mission's proposal but later the party's leader Jawaharlal Nehru rejected it.Pakistan As a result, the Muslim nationalist All-India Muslim League boycotted the assembly sessions,M. Lakshmikanth, Indian Polity for Civil Services Examinations, 3rd ed., (New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill Education Private Limited, 2011), p. 2.3 and its leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah refused to participate in the assembly.https://www.jstor.org/stable/44141168 THE MUSLIM LEAGUE AND THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF INDIA Sangam Lal Proceedings of the Indian History Congress 1981 42 495 Indian History Congress On 3 June 1947, the then British prime minister Clement Attlee announced the plan for the transfer of power and proposed the formation of a separate Constituent Assembly for the proposed state for Indian Muslims. He also declared that members of the proposed assembly would be elected by the votes of provincial legislative assembly members.https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1947/jun/03/india-transfer-of-power INDIA (TRANSFER OF POWER) 3 June 1947 Parliament of the United Kingdom Planning After the vote by members of the Bengal Legislative Assembly on 20 June in favor of the partition of Bengal, the following day it was announced that the date for submitting nominations for the Constituent Assembly elections in the Bengal region would be 30 June, and the election would be held in 5 July.ELECTION TO CONSAMBLIES Provisional Dates For Divided Bengal 1 22 June 1947 The Indian Express Meanwhile, in 23 June, after the members of Punjab Legislative Assembly voted in favor of the partition of Punjab, elections were announced to be held around July in the Punjab region.PUNJAB TO BE PARTITIONED Eastern Section Votes Division By 50 To 22 WESTERN AREA DECIDES TO JOIN NEW CONSAMBLY 1 24 June 1947 The Indian Express In 22 July, it was announced that the legislative seats of Assam Province had been divided into Group A and Group B for the elections. From Group B's 29 seats, 3 members (including 2 Muslims) would be elected to the new Constituent Assembly by a vote among the members.গণ-পরিষদে আসামের প্রতিনিধি এ-গুরুপ হইতে ৮ ও বি-গুরুপ হইতে ৩জনঃ প্রেসনোটের ঘোষণা Assam's Representation in the Constituent Assembly: 8 from Group A and 3 from Group B, says press note bn 5 24 July 1947 Jugantar Patrika In 30 July, candidates from Assam submitted their nomination papers, and it was announced that the election for the province would be held on 2 August 1947 at the legislative building in Shillong, the provincial capital.PAKISTAN CONSEMBLY Nominations For League And Hindu Seats Filed 5 1 August 1947 Amrita Bazar Patrika Results List of members of the 1st Constituent Assembly of Pakistan On 26 July, the names of 66 elected members from East Bengal, West Punjab, Sindh, North-West Frontier Province, and Baluchistan were announced. Among those elected, 48 were Muslims and 2 were Sikhs. From East Bengal, 41 members were elected; from West Punjab, 17; from Sindh, 4; from the North-West Frontier Province, 3; and from Baluchistan, 1 member. Separate elections were not held for Sindh, the North-West Frontier Province, and Baluchistan; instead, members elected earlier to the Indian Constituent Assembly were directly taken as representatives.CONSEMBLY OF PAKISTAN Names Of Representatives Announced 10 27 July 1947 Amrita Bazar Patrika Out of the total elected members, 59 belonged to the All-India Muslim League.Constituent Assembly of Pakistan File:Pakistan Constituent Assembly 1947.svg All-India Muslim League 59 Indian National Congress 9 Independents #DCDCDC 1 69 425 Aftermath On 28 July 1947, general secretary Liaquat Ali Khan convened a meeting of the All-India Muslim League members at the legislative building in Karachi for the Constituent Assembly.PAKISTAN CONSEMBLY League Members To Meet On August 9 5 30 July 1947 Amrita Bazar Patrika In 9 August, Kiran Shankar Roy and Bhim Sen Sachar were selected as the parliamentary leader and parliamentary deputy leader respectively of the Indian National Congress, the opposition party in the new Constituent Assembly.CONGRESS PARTY IN PAKISTAN CONSEMBLY 5 10 August 1947 Amrita Bazar Patrika In 10 August, Muhammad Ali Jinnah was elected president of the Constituent Assembly.রবিবার পাকিস্থান রাষ্ট্র গঠন পরিষদের প্রথম অধিবেশন First Session of Pakistan State Constituent Assembly on Sunday bn 1 11 August 1947 Jugantar Patrika On 14 August 1947, Pakistan gained independence from British Empire. On the following day, under the leadership of Liaquat Ali Khan, the first federal cabinet of Pakistan was formed.4 February 2013 Transfer of power and Jinnah https://www.dawn.com/news/783530/transfer-of-power-and-jinnah Dawn References Category:1947 elections in Asia Category:Constituent assembly elections in Asia Category:Indirect elections in Pakistan Category:Elections in British India Category:Constituent Assembly of Pakistan Category:History of the All-India Muslim League