Ad Mazhar Iqbal

By-elections were held in Punjab, Pakistan on 17 July 2022 to elect 20 members of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf won a landslide victory on 15 of those 20 seats, leading to the de facto collapse of Chief Minister Hamza Shahbaz’s PML-N led coalition government.

The by-elections were held on these seats: PP-7 (Rawalpindi-II), PP-83 (Khushab-II), PP-90 (Bhakkar-II), PP-97 (Faisalabad-I), PP-125 (Jhang-II), PP-127 (Jhang-IV), PP-140 (Sheikhupura-VI), PP-158 (Lahore-XV), PP-167 (Lahore-XXIV), PP-168 (Lahore-XXV), PP-170 (Lahore-XXVII), PP-202 (Sahiwal-VII), PP-217 (Multan-VII), PP-224 (Lodhran-I), PP-228 (Lodhran-III), PP-237 (Bahawalnagar-I), PP-272 (Muzaffargarh-V), PP-273 (Muzaffargarh-VI), PP-282 (Layyah-III) and PP-288 (Dera Ghazi Khan-IV).

In the 2018 election, 11 of these seats were won by Independents and 9 were won by candidates on the PTI-ticket; the 11 independents all subsequently joined PTI. The by-elections were triggered due to the disqualification of 20 MPAs who voted for Hamza Shehbaz to become the Chief Minister of Punjab, which violated Article 63-A of the Constitution of Pakistan according to the Supreme Court and the Election Commission of Pakistan.

• Seats before PTI 173 PMLN 175
• Seats won. PTI 15 PMLN 4
• Seats after PTI 188 PMLN 179