More women won general elections 2024 compared to 2018 elections

More women candidates have won 2024 general elections with a record-breaking victory number of 27 compared to just 16 in 2018 elections.

About 882 women candidates filed candidacy papers for national and provincial assembly seats in the 2024 elections. 312 females submitted nominations for the National Assembly and 570 for provincial assembly seats. It shows a considerable in number of female candidates running in the 2024 elections.

The women candidates won 27 seats in the general elections, which are 11 more seats than in the 2018 elections. The 111 political parties nominated 275 women candidates for general elections showing 4.6% of the total of 6,037 candidates fielded.

This time shows a record 27 women have been elected from all five assemblies. Twelwe women won for the National Assembly, 11 for the Punjab Assembly, 2 for the Sindh Assembly, and 1 for Kyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Candidate	Party	Assembly	Constituency	Votes
Shandana Gulzar Khan	PTI-backed	NA	NA-30	78,971
Aniqa Mehdi	PTI-backed	NA	NA-67	208,943
Shezra Mansab Kharal	PML-N	NA	NA-112	105,646
Maryam Nawaz Sharif	PML-N	NA	NA-119	83,855
Ayesha Nazir Jatt	PTI-backed	NA	NA-156	119,820
Begum Tehmina Doultana	PML-N	NA	NA-158	111,196
Umber Majeed	PTI-backed	NA	NA-181	120,499
Zartaj Gul	PTI-backed	NA	NA-185	94,881
Nafisa Shah	PPP	NA	NA-202	146,083
Shazia Mari	PPP	NA	NA-209	156,002
Aasia Ishaque Siddiqui	MQM-P	NA	NA-232	88,258
Nousheen Iftikhar	PML-N	NA	NA-78	112,143
Suraya Bibi	PTI-backed	KP	PK 1 Chitral Upper	18,914
Noor Shahid Noor	PTI-backed	Punjab	PP-103	35,431
Asfa Riaz Fatiana	PTI-backed	Punjab	PP-123	51,219
Sonia	PTI-backed	Punjab	PP-124	62,062
Maryam Nawaz Sharif	PML-N	Punjab	PP-159	23,598
Misbah Wajid	Independent	Punjab	PP-172	313,78
Shazia Hayat	PTI-backed	Punjab	PP-225	69,799
Suraiya Sultana	PTI-backed	Punjab	PP-244	506,25
Saima Kanwal	PTI-backed	Punjab	PP-260	54,980
Nadia Khar	PTI-backed	Punjab	PP-277	55,147
Zarnab Sher	PTI-backed	Punjab	PP-40	74,640
Basma Chaudhry	PTI-backed	Punjab	PP-41	70,159
Faryal Talpur	PPP	Sindh	PS-10	85,917
Azra Fazal Pechuho	PPP	Sindh	PS-36	85,917

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A record-breaking 183 women ran for general seats in the National Assembly in the 2018 elections. However, only eight female candidates won. Four female candidates won in Sindh, three in Punjab, and one in Balochistan. However, women candidates did won a single seat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

However, there were 135 women candidates with independent candidates outnumbering party ticket holders by 74 to 61 respectively in 2013 elections.

But there were only 72 women candidates including 41 party holders and 31 independents in 2008 elections. All these statistics show women participation in the political arena has been increasing with every elections. It is a positive sign for becoming progressive country.