2001 Azad Kashmiri general election

2001 Azad Kashmir general election

5 July 2001

All 48 seats in the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly
25 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Sikandar Hayat Khan Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry
Party AJKMC PPP
Leader's seat Kotli-II Mirpur-III
Last election 9 37
Seats won 27 17
Seat change 18 20

Prime Minister before election

Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry
PPP

Elected Prime Minister

Sikandar Hayat Khan
AJKMC

General elections were held in Azad Kashmir on 5 July 2001 to elect the members of seventh assembly of Azad Kashmir. The All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference (AJKMC) won the election, defeating the incumbent Pakistan People's Party (PPP) government of Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry, who was succeeded by Sikandar Hayat Khan as Prime Minister.