Raja Muhammad Zakaria Khan Maqpoon is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the

Gilgit Baltistan Assembly The Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly (GBA), formerly known as Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly (GBLA), is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the Pakistani territory (''de facto'' Pakistani province, province) of Gilgit-Baltista ...

since November 2020.

Political career

Raja Muhammad Zakaria Khan Maqpoon contested the

2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election The 2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly elections were held on 15 November 2020. Elections were held in 24 constituencies, each electing one member to the 3rd Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly. 330 candidates contested these elections, either re ...

on 15 November 2020 from GBA-7 (Skardu-I) on the ticket of

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is a political party in Pakistan established in 1996 by cricketer and politician Imran Khan, who served as the country's prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The party is led by Gohar Ali Khan since late 2023. ...

(PTI). He won the election by the margin of 1,176 votes over the runner up,

Syed Mehdi Shah Syed Mehdi Shah (Urdu: ) is a Pakistani politician who is currently serving as the 8th Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan since 15 August 2022. Previously, he served as the first Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan The chief minister of Gilgit Ba ...

Pakistan Peoples Party The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is a political party in Pakistan and one of the three major List of political parties in Pakistan, Pakistani political parties alongside the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. With a Cent ...

(PPP), the former

Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan The chief minister of Gilgit Baltistan is elected by the Gilgit Baltistan Assembly to serve as the head of the provincial government in Gilgit-Baltistan for a five-year term. List of chief ministers Timeline See also * Government of Gilgit ...

. He garnered 5,290 votes while Shah received 4,114 votes.

References

Living people Balti people Gilgit-Baltistan MLAs 2020–2025 Politicians from Gilgit-Baltistan Year of birth missing (living people) {{GilgitBaltistan-MLA-stub