2020 Gilgit Baltistan Assembly election


The 2020 Gilgit Baltistan Assembly election will be held on 18 August 2020 to elect the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The current assembly term ended on 24 June 2020, although the date of the election is in doubt because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has hit Gilgit-Baltistan especially hard.

Background

2015 elections

Following the elections in 2015, Pakistan Muslim League, led by Mian Shahbaz Sharif, emerged as the largest party with a supermajority of 22 seats out of a total of 33 in the Gilgit Baltistan Assembly. Hafiz Hafeezur Rehman was elected as the Chief Minister of Gilgit Baltistan.

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