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Election act 2017

Chap -1
1. What is the short title of the Act?
A) Election Reform Act 2017
B) Election Law 2017
C) The Elections Act, 2017
D) Pakistan Election Ordinance 2017
✅ Answer: C
2. To which part of the country does the Elections Act, 2017 extend?
A) Punjab only
B) Islamabad only
C) Whole of Pakistan
D) Urban areas only
✅ Answer: C
3. When does the Elections Act, 2017 come into force?
A) After one month of notification
B) On 1st January 2018
C) After Presidential assent
D) At once
✅ Answer: D

4. Who is called an “aalim” under the Act?

A) Any religious speaker
B) A Muslim scholar with 16 years of education and 20 years of teaching
or research
C) Madrassa student
D) Mufti
✅ Answer: B
5. What does “accredited” mean?
A) Certified by HEC
B) Licensed by court
C) Authorized by the Commission
D) Selected by a political party
✅ Answer: C
6. What is an “applicable local government law”?
A) Any Presidential Ordinance
B) A Provincial or Federal Act for establishing local governments
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C) Court orders
D) Senate Rules
✅ Answer: B
7. What does the term “Article” refer to in the Act?
A) Law journal paragraph
B) Part of a regulation
C) Article of the Constitution
D) Essay
✅ Answer: C
8. What does “Assembly” mean?
A) District Assembly
B) National or Provincial Assembly
C) Senate only
D) Election Commission
✅ Answer: B
9. What does “asset” include?
A) Income
B) Land only
C) Property owned by the candidate, spouse, and dependent children
D) Vehicles only
✅ Answer: C
10.What is a “bye-election”?
A) General election
B) Mid-term election
C) Election to fill a casual vacancy
D) Senate election
✅ Answer: C
11.Who is a “candidate”?
A) Any government servant
B) Person eligible to vote
C) Person seeking election and validly proposed and seconded
D) A minister
✅ Answer: C
12.What does “Code” refer to in the Elections Act?
A) Election Commission Code
B) Civil Procedure Code
C) Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898
D) Electoral Code of Conduct
✅ Answer: C
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13.What is meant by “Commission”?

A) Public Service Commission
B) Federal Board of Revenue
C) Election Commission of Pakistan
D) Law and Justice Commission
✅ Answer: C
14.Who is the “Commissioner”?
A) Secretary of Election Commission
B) District Officer
C) Chief Election Commissioner
D) Provincial Election Officer
✅ Answer: C
15.What is a “constituency”?
A) Village council
B) Tehsil
C) Area delimited under the Act for election
D) Union council
✅ Answer: C
16.What is the “Constitution” as per the Act?
A) Election Commission’s internal law
B) 1973 Constitution of Pakistan
C) Basic structure theory
D) Presidential Order
✅ Answer: B
17.Who is a “contesting candidate”?
A) Any applicant
B) Candidate whose nomination is accepted and has not withdrawn
C) Politically active person
D) Government employee
✅ Answer: B
18.What is an “election agent”?
A) Campaign manager
B) Political party head
C) Candidate’s appointed agent or the candidate himself
D) Polling staff
✅ Answer: C
19.What are “election expenses”?
A) Commission's expenditures
B) Donations by public
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C) Expenditure for arrangements and conduct of election

D) Media coverage costs only
✅ Answer: C
20.What is an “electoral area” in rural areas?
A) Town
B) Union Council
C) Village or census block
D) Police station
✅ Answer: C
21.What is an “electoral area” in urban areas?
A) Cantonment
B) Municipal ward, block, or well-defined Mohallah or street
C) Circle office
D) Sector only
✅ Answer: B
22.Who is an “election observer”?
A) Judge
B) Polling agent
C) Person authorized to observe elections
D) Voter
✅ Answer: C
23.What is meant by “election official”?
A) Only Presiding Officer
B) Any official appointed for election duties
C) Polling station owner
D) Media person
✅ Answer: B
24.What is the “Election Programme”?
A) Party manifesto
B) Media debate
C) Schedule notified by Commission
D) Result announcement
✅ Answer: C
25.What is an “electoral roll”?
A) Voter registration file
B) List prepared under Electoral Rolls Act 1974 or this Act
C) Census data
D) Polling booth list
✅ Answer: B
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26.What does “Form” refer to in the Act?

A) Online application
B) Format issued by a party
C) Official document appended to the Act
D) ID card form
✅ Answer: C
27.What does “Government” mean in the Act?
A) Provincial only
B) Federal only
C) Federal, Provincial, or Local government
D) Political party
✅ Answer: C
28.What are “government dues and utility expenses”?
A) Only water bills
B) Rent and charges of accommodation owned by government
C) Election campaign expenses
D) Travel expenses
✅ Answer: B
29.What does “loan” mean in this context?
A) Any bank loan taken before 1985
B) Loan after 1985, except stayed by court
C) Home loan only
D) Credit card debt
✅ Answer: B
30.What is “local government”?
A) Federal agency
B) Only cantonment board
C) Government established by provincial or federal law
D) Political party
✅ Answer: C
31.Who is a “Member” as per the Act?
A) District member
B) Only MNA
C) Member of Assembly, Senate, or local government
D) Union council chairman
✅ Answer: C
32.What is NADRA?
A) Voter association
B) National Assembly registrar
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C) National Database and Registration Authority

D) Election tribunal
✅ Answer: C
33.What is a “political party”?
A) NGO
B) Union
C) Group aiming to influence political opinion and participate in elections
D) National Committee
✅ Answer: C
34.What does “population” refer to?
A) Estimated count
B) People living in urban areas only
C) Latest officially published census
D) Only voters
✅ Answer: C
35.What does “prescribed” mean?
A) Ordered by court
B) Suggested in media
C) As per Rules
D) Defined in Constitution
✅ Answer: C
36.Who is the “Presiding Officer”?
A) Chief of Commission
B) Court officer
C) Person appointed to manage a polling station
D) Police Officer
✅ Answer: C
37.What does “provisional” mean?
A) Final
B) Unofficial and not final
C) Verified
D) Part of Constitution
✅ Answer: B
38.Who is a “Registration Officer”?
A) Union council officer
B) Judge
C) Appointed officer to manage electoral roll registration
D) Tax officer
✅ Answer: C
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39.Who is a “returned candidate”?

A) Candidate who lost
B) Withdrawn candidate
C) Candidate declared elected
D) Nominee of party
✅ Answer: C
40.Who is “Revising Authority”?
A) Presiding Officer
B) Court
C) Person to hear claims or objections in electoral rolls
D) DRO
✅ Answer: C
41.What does “Rules” refer to?
A) ECP guidelines
B) Court orders
C) Rules made under the Act
D) Party regulations
✅ Answer: C
42.What is a “section”?
A) Article of Constitution
B) Part of a polling booth
C) Section of the Elections Act
D) Voter list
✅ Answer: C
43.What does “tax” include under the Act?
A) Only income tax
B) Provincial tax
C) Tax levied by any government (except stayed by court)
D) Foreign tax
✅ Answer: C
44.Who is a “technocrat”?
A) Computer programmer
B) Person with 16 years of education + 20 years of experience
C) Public servant
D) Lawyer
✅ Answer: B
45.Who is a “validly nominated candidate”?
A) Candidate nominated by party
B) Candidate whose papers are accepted
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C) Voter supporting candidate

D) Presiding officer
✅ Answer: B
46.Who is a “voter” for Assembly elections?
A) Civil servant
B) Only taxpayer
C) Person enrolled in electoral roll of a constituency
D) Political leader
✅ Answer: C
47.Who is a voter in Senate elections?
A) Member of Provincial or National Assembly
B) Only citizens
C) District government officer
D) Tax filer
✅ Answer: A