Pakistan's election results are public, but they are not very transparent. They live as thousands of separate constituency pages, as scanned Form-47 PDFs, and in unofficial transcriptions of returns the Commission itself has since taken down. The boundaries are worse: the Election Commission has never released a GIS file, so every constituency map in circulation — including this one — is a digitisation of low-resolution paper sheets or a reconstruction from written seat descriptions. This project assembles both halves into one place, and is explicit about where each line and each number came from.
The ambition
The longer aim is bigger than an archive. Wherever elections are taken seriously, a tradition of psephology — the serious, public study of a country's own elections — grows up alongside them, and it is part of how democratic culture reproduces itself: voters can see how they voted, parties can be held to their records, and claims about mandates can be checked against numbers. Pakistan has never really had this. Aiwan-e-Jamhoor wants to help build it: constituency-level analysis as a public habit, honest public polling, swing and turnout treated as things citizens are entitled to understand — a small contribution to a culture and tradition of democratic politics in Pakistan.
Built by
Hiba Sameen is an economist and data scientist based in London. She holds a PhD in Economics and has worked across academia, government and think tanks on economic policy, with an interest in data science and engineering focused on making public data more accessible. Aiwan-e-Jamhoor grew out of the same frustration as its sister project, Data Darbar: the answers are in the public record, but nobody can get at them.
Sources
- Colin Cookman's open election datasets 1993 · 1997 · 2002 · 2008 · 2013 · 2018
Candidate- and constituency-level returns derived from Election Commission records and released under GPL-3.0 — pakistan_elections and pakistan_election_results_2018. - ElectionPakistani 1977 · 1985 · 1988 · 1990 · 2024
An unofficial transcription of Commission returns, scraped constituency by constituency and parsed here. It is the only consolidated public series for the pre-1993 elections. - Official ECP Form-47 scans 2024
254 scanned provisional consolidation forms, read directly for registered voters, turnout, polling stations and rejected votes, and arithmetic-checked row by row. - rugpundit — PakistanConstituencies2013 2002 delimitation
The de-facto research standard for the 272-seat 2002 boundaries, itself an unofficial digitisation of Commission raster maps (GPL-3.0). Its provincial-assembly shapefile supplies the two Gujranwala city seats the National Assembly layer omits. - ECP delimitation map sheets 2018 & 2023 delimitations
114 district sheets for 2018 and the 2023 sheets and published seat compositions, digitised and reconstructed in this project. No official vector file exists for either. - geoBoundaries, OCHA COD and GADM district base layers
The district geometry the pre-2002 reconstructions and the composition-based rebuilds are anchored to. - Wikimedia Commons election maps cross-check only
Independently drawn, seat-numbered result maps by Saad Ali Khan Pakistan (CC BY-SA 4.0), used to verify 1,023 of our winners. Nothing from them is redistributed here.
Contributors
Sheroze Khan drew NA-95 and NA-96 — the two Gujranwala city seats missing from the 2002–2013 boundary layer — from the provincial-assembly polygons the 2002 gazette assigns to each seat, with a documented cross-check against an independent map (September 2026). Contributions are credited by name on whatever they touch; see the repository for how to help.
Licence & citation
The code — the site, the scrapers, the boundary pipeline — is released under the MIT Licence. The derived data — the consolidated results and the reconstructed boundary layers — is released under CC BY 4.0, subject to the upstream terms that travel with it: the Cookman and rugpundit datasets are GPL-3.0, and the Commons cross-check maps are CC BY-SA 4.0. Attribute as "Aiwan-e-Jamhoor, with upstream sources as noted."
Sameen, H. (2026). Aiwan-e-Jamhoor: Pakistan National Assembly elections, mapped (1977–2024). https://github.com/hibasameen/aiwan-e-jamhoor
Corrections are welcome and wanted — a wrong winner, a misplaced boundary, a party label that should be merged. Open an issue on GitHub or get in touch.