Biggest wins, 1997
The 20 largest winning margins in the National Assembly and in the provincial assemblies.
Summary
The largest National Assembly winning margin in Pakistan's 1997 general election was in NA-188 Karachi Central, where Hassan Musana Alvi (HPG) won by 92,047 votes. The largest provincial assembly margin was in PS-76 Karachi West (47,453 votes). 11 seats were won by more than 50,000 votes.
National Assembly
Seat and winnerWon by
1. NA-188 Karachi Central Hassan Musana Alvi (HPG) 92,047votes 2. NA-185 Karachi West AK Shams (HPG) 77,466votes 3. NA-13 Haripur Gohar Ayub Khan (PML-N) 61,556votes 4. NA-141 Bahawalpur Nawab Salah Ud Din Abbasi (PML-N) 58,158votes 5. NA-39 Rawalpindi Muhammad Ijaz Ul Haq (PML-N) 55,554votes 6. NA-129 Vehari Muhammad Nawaz alias Dilawar Khan Khichi (PML-N) 54,289votes 7. NA-57 Faisalabad Rana Zahid Tauseef (PML-N) 53,166votes 8. NA-43 Chakwal Lt. General (R) Abdul Majeed Malik (PML-N) 52,607votes 9. NA-60 Faisalabad Safdar ur Rehman (PML-N) 52,396votes 10. NA-187 Karachi Central Muhammad Farooq Ahmed (HPG) 51,401votes 11. NA-125 Sahiwal Chaudhary Muhammad Ashraf (PML-N) 50,407votes 12. NA-85 Sialkot Khawaja Muhammad Asif (PML-N) 48,268votes 13. NA-186 Karachi Central Kanwar Khalid Younis Ali Khan (HPG) 47,483votes 14. NA-38 Rawalpindi Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad (PML-N) 47,469votes 15. NA-137 Muzaffargarh Malik Ghulam Muhammad Noor Rabbani Khar (PML-N) 47,189votes 16. NA-65 Faisalabad Mian Abdul Manan (PML-N) 47,188votes 17. NA-78 Gujranwala Rana Nazir Ahmad Khan (PML-N) 47,162votes 18. NA-138 Muzaffargarh Mian Ghulam Abbas Qureshi (PML-N) 45,942votes 19. NA-142 Bahawalpur Shahzada Farooq Anwar Abbasi (PML-N) 45,907votes 20. NA-81 Gujrat Chaudhary Shujat Hussain (PML-N) 45,777votes Provincial assemblies
Seat and winnerWon by
1. PS-76 Karachi West Syed Muhammad Mohi Uddin (HPG) 47,453votes 2. PS-83 Karachi Central Muhammad Yousaf Khan (HPG) 43,208votes 3. PS-84 Karachi Central Khalid Bin Walid (HPG) 34,793votes 4. PP-171 Multan Muhammad Siddiq Khan Balouch (PML-N) 34,135votes 5. PP-4 Rawalpindi Muhammad Basharat Raja (PML-N) 30,895votes 6. PP-16 Chakwal Chaudhary Liaqat Ali Khan (PML-N) 30,709votes 7. PS-99 Karachi East Abdul Sattar Ansari (HPG) 30,302votes 8. PP-20 Jhelum Chaudhary Saeed Iqbal (PML-N) 29,527votes 9. PP-237 Rahim Yar Khan Imtiaz Ahmad (PML-N) 29,378votes 10. PP-93 Gujrat Chaudhary Wajahat Hussain (PML-N) 28,852votes 11. PS-80 Karachi Central Muhammad Zahid Qureshi (HPG) 27,333votes 12. PS-78 Karachi Central Afzal Anwar (HPG) 26,811votes 13. PP-182 Sahiwal Muhammad Arshad Khan Lodhi (PML-N) 26,475votes 14. PP-238 Rahim Yar Khan Syed Ali Akbar Mahmood (PML-N) 26,331votes 15. PP-239 Rahim Yar Khan Shaukat Dawood (PML-N) 25,589votes 16. PP-1 Rawalpindi Sardar Muhammad Naseem Khan (PML-N) 25,462votes 17. PP-127 Lahore Arshad Imran Sulheri (PML-N) 25,319votes 18. PP-103 Sialkot Khawaja Muhammad Manshaullah (PML-N) 24,901votes 19. PP-224 Bahawalpur Muhammad Afzal Gill (PML-N) 24,863votes 20. PP-105 Sialkot Khurshid Ahmad Soofi (PML-N) 24,715votes Common questions
Who won by the biggest margin in the 1997 election?
Hassan Musana Alvi in NA-188 Karachi Central, by 92,047 votes.