List of members of the 14th National Assembly of Pakistan

Party		Seats	Party		Seats
	PML (N)	188		ANP	2
	PPP	47		PML (Z)	1
	PTI	33		NP	1
	MQM	24		AML	1
	JUI (F)	14		QWP	1
	PML (F)	5		BNP	1
	PkMAP	3		AJIP	1
	JI	4		APML	1
	PML (Q)	2		Independents	9
	NPP	2	Total = 340

The 14th Parliament of Pakistan is the legislature of Pakistan following the 2013 general election of members of parliament (MPs) to the National Assembly of Pakistan, the lower house of the bicameral Majlis-e-Shura. The National Assembly is a democratically elected body consisting of 342 members, who are referred to as Members of the National Assembly (MNAs), of which 272 are directly elected members; 70 reserved seats for women and religious minorities are allocated to the political parties according to their proportion of the total vote.^[1]

The election saw each of Parliament's 272 constituencies return one MP to the National Assembly. It resulted in a Pakistan Muslim League (N) majority, and a massive loss of seats for the Pakistan Peoples Party. Pakistan Muslim League (N) became the single largest party, though without an overall majority. The Pakistan Muslim League (N) won 188 seats in the National Assembly through a simple majority.^[2] This resulted in a hung parliament. A coalition agreement was then formed following negotiations with the independent candidates who joined the PML(N) which allowed party to form a simple-majority government by bringing on-board nineteen independent candidates, thirteen more than the minimum required to form a government.^[3] This swing ultimately resulted in Nawaz Sharif becoming the new Prime Minister of Pakistan for the third time.^[4] Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah won a PPP leadership vote to succeed Nisar Ali Khan as permanent Leader of the Opposition.^[5] Ayaz Sadiq and Murtaza Javed Abbasi of PML-N elected as the legislature’s speaker and deputy speaker, respectively.^[6]

Members of the 14th National Assembly took oath on 1 June 2013,^[7] and marked the historic constitutional transition of power from one democratically-elected government to another for the first time in the history of Pakistan.^[8]

In July 2017, the Supreme Court of Pakistan disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding membership of the National Assembly following an investigation on corruption allegations regarding his family's wealth, forcing him to resign as Prime Minister.^[9] Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was elected by the National Assembly as the new Prime Minister on 1 August 2017.^[10]

Members

Membership changes

Since general election in May 2013, numerous seats of the National Assembly of Pakistan become vacant. In most cases, the incumbent becomes ineligible to continue in office when a constituency election is invalidated by voting irregularities. In some case the incumbent died, resigned or vacated the seat in order to retain the seat the member won in their home constituency. Afterwards, by-elections were held in vacant constituencies to fill the vacant seats.^[351]

See also

• List of senators in the 14th Parliament of Pakistan

References