Election Victories
The JUI was part of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), an alliance of religious parties that won 11.3% of the popular vote and 53 out of 272 elected members in the 2002 elections. Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal later collapsed in 2005 amid differences among participant political parties.
In the 2008 Pakistani general election, only the JUI-F participated because the other major component party of the MMA, the Jamaat-e-Islami, boycotted the elections to protest issues of the eligibility of President Pervez Musharraf and the restoration of the judiciary.
Unlike the 2002 elections when the MMA swept national and provincial assemblies, in 2008 the JUI-F won 7 general seats in the National Assembly, which garnered them 1 additional seat in the Women Reserved section, raising the total to 8 NA seats. In the provincial assemblies, it won 14 seats in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, but could only muster 2 seats in the 371-seat Punjab Assembly. The party received strong support in Pakistan's western regions and JUI-N won 1 general seats in the National Assembly.
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