General elections 2013 :

Facts and figures :

CANDIDATES
There are 4,670 candidates standing for 272 seats in a first-past-the-post system in the 342-member lower house.

Sixty seats reserved for women and 10 for non-Muslim minorities were distributed by proportional representation based on the parties’ share of the directly elected seats.

A total of 10,955 candidates were running in elections for Pakistan’s four provincial assemblies in Punjab, Sindh in the south, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the northwest and Baluchistan in the southwest.

Only 161 women were standing for the national assembly, 3.5% of the candidates.

VOTERS
There are 86.2 million registered voters — 37.6 million women and 48.6 million men.

POLLING STATIONS
The Election Commission has set up around 70,000 polling stations, 40% of them for women, to be staffed by more than 600,000 people.

Party position in national assembly can be viewed here:
http://www.ecp.gov.pk/overallpartyposition.pdf

In provincial assemblies, party position is explained here :
http://www.ecp.gov.pk/overallpartypositionPA.pdf