300 of the 313 seats in the National Assembly 151 seats needed for a majority
Registered
56,941,500
Turnout
57.96%
First party
Second party
Leader
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Party
AL
PPP
Seats won
167
86
Popular vote
12,937,162
6,148,923
Percentage
39.20%
18.63%
Results by constituency
Prime Minister before election
None (post vacant since 1958)
Elected Prime Minister
Nurul Amin
PML
Part of a series on the
Independence of Bangladesh
Events
Partition of Bengal
Bengali language movement
Six point movement
Agartala Conspiracy Case
Eleven Points Programme
East Pakistan mass uprising
Pakistani general election
Non-cooperation movement
7 March Speech
Operation Searchlight
Proclamation of Independence
Organisations
East Pakistan Renaissance Society
Awami League
United Front
East Pakistan Communist Party
Sarbadaliya Chhatra Sangram Parishad
Swadhin Bangla Biplobi Parishad
Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra
Key persons
Abul Kalam Shamsuddin
Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury
Mujibur Rahman Khan
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
Serajul Alam Khan
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani
Ataur Rahman Khan
Related
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Part of a series on the
History of Bangladesh
Etymology
Timeline
Traditional
Urheimat
Ancient
Neolithic, c. 7600 – c. 3300 BCE
Bronze Age, c. 3300 – c. 1200 BCE
Iron Age, c. 1200 – c. 200 BCE
Janapada, c. 1200 – c. 600 BCE
Northern Black Polished Ware, c. 700 – c. 200 BCE
Pundra Kingdom, c. 700 – c. 200 BCE
Bengal in Mahabharata, c. 400 – c. 325 BCE
Gangaridai Kingdom, c. 350 – c. 325 BCE
Mauryan Empire, c. 325 – c. 185 BCE
Samatata Kingdom, c. 232 BCE – c. 800 AD
Shunga-Kushan Period, c. 185 BCE – c. 75 AD
Southwestern Silk Road, c. 114 BCE – c. 1450 AD
Indo-Roman trade relations, c. 30 BCE – c. 600 AD
Classical
Gupta Empire, c. 240 – c. 550 AD
Harikela Kingdom, c. 600 - c. 650
Gauda Kingdom, c. 590 – c. 626
Gour (Sylhet), c. 600 – c. 1303
Khadga dynasty, c. 650 – c. 750
Pala Empire, c. 750 – c. 1100
Arrival of Islam, c. 800 – c. 1050
Candra dynasty, c. 900 – c. 1050
Sena dynasty, c. 1070 – c. 1320
Deva dynasty, c. 1100 – c. 1250
Mediaeval
Bhulua (Noakhali), c. 1203 – c. 1600s
Delhi Sultanate, c. 1204 – c. 1338
Mamluk Dynasty
Khalji Dynasty
Tugluq Dynasty
Sonargaon Sultanate, c. 1338 – c. 1352
Bengal Sultanate, c. 1352 – c. 1576
Ilyas Shahi dynasty
Hussain Shahi dynasty
Karrani dynasty
Suri Dynasty, c. 1540 – c. 1556
Twelve Bhuyans, c. 1550 – c. 1620
Porto Grande de Bengala, c. 1528 – c. 1666
Chittagong-Arakan Kingdom, c. 1530 – c. 1666
Mughal Empire, c. 1576 – c. 1717
Bengal Subah
Modern
Nawabs of Bengal, c. 1717 – c. 1757
Company Raj, c. 1757 – c. 1858
Bengal famine of 1770
Faraizi Movement, c. 1818 – c. 1884
The Great Rebellion, c. 1857 – c. 1858
British Raj, c. 1858 – c. 1947
Bengal Renaissance
Partition of Bengal (1905)
Eastern Bengal and Assam
Bengal famine of 1943
Prime Minister of Bengal
Noakhali riots
East Bengal, c. 1947 – c. 1955
Partition of Bengal (1947)
East Bengali refugees
Bengali Language Movement
East Pakistan, c. 1955 – c. 1971
1964 East Pakistan riots
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Six Point Movement
1969 uprising in East Pakistan
Pakistani general election, 1970
Non-cooperation movement, 1971
Bangladesh Liberation War, c. 1971
Declaration of Independence
Provisional Government of Bangladesh
1971 Bangladesh Genocide (Rape)
Bangladesh Forces
Surrender of Pakistan
Contemporary
Post-independence years, 1972 – 1975
Bangladesh famine of 1974
Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League
Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Jail Killing Day
Military rule, 1975 – 1990
Military coups in Bangladesh
Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict
1990 Mass Uprising
Transition to democracy, 1991 – 2008
Caretaker government of Bangladesh
Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord
2006–08 Bangladeshi political crisis
Present parliamentary era, 2009– present
Vision 2021 and Digital Bangladesh
International Crimes Tribunal
Quota reform movement
2021 Bangladesh Communal Violence
Smart Bangladesh
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General elections were held in Pakistan on 7 December 1970 to elect members of the National Assembly. They were the first direct general elections since the independence of Pakistan and ultimately the only ones held prior to the independence of Bangladesh. Voting took place in 300 general constituencies, of which 162 were in East Pakistan and 138 in West Pakistan. A further thirteen seats were reserved for women (seven of which were in East Pakistan and six of which were in West Pakistan), who were to be elected by members of the National Assembly.[1]
The elections were a fierce contest between two social democratic parties, the west-based Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the east-based Awami League. The Awami League was the sole major party in the east wing, while in the west wing, the PPP faced severe competition from the conservative factions of Muslim League, the largest of which was Muslim League (Qayyum), as well as Islamist parties like Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP).
The result was a victory for the Awami League, which gained an absolute majority, winning 160 of the 162 general seats and all seven women's seats in East Pakistan. The PPP won only 81 general seats and five women's seats, all in West Pakistan. In the provincial elections held ten days later, the Awami League again dominated in East Pakistan, while the PPP were the winning party in Punjab and Sindh. The Marxist National Awami Party emerged victorious in Northwest Frontier Province and Balochistan.
The National Assembly was initially not inaugurated as President Yahya Khan and the PPP chairman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto did not want a party from East Pakistan in federal government.[2] Instead, Yahya appointed the veteran Bengali politician Nurul Amin as Prime Minister, asking him to reach a compromise between the PPP and Awami League. However, this move failed as the delay in inauguration had already caused significant unrest in East Pakistan. The situation deteriorated further when Operation Searchlight occurred under the orders of Yahya resulting in a civil war that led to the formation of the independent state of Bangladesh.[3] The Assembly was eventually inaugurated in 1972 after Yahya resigned and handed power to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Bhutto became Prime Minister in 1973 after the post was recreated by a new constitution.
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