1971-01-24
By Associated Press
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DACCA, Pakistan, Jan. 23 (AP)—The Awami League, East Pakistan's dominant political party, has won nine more seats in the new National Assembly, assuring it of a majority of 21 seats, according to unofficial results from voting last Sun day.
The league won the nine seats—and 20 in the provincial assembly—in the five coastal districts devastated by a cyclone and tidal waves before the Dec. 7 general election. An in dependent candidate won one seat in the provincial assembly.
The Awami League, headed by Sheik Mujibur Rahman, won 151 seats in the general election and will also get the seven seats allotted to women, giving it 167 of the 313 assembly seats. The assembly will draft the country's first democratically prepared constitution.
The second largest party will he Zulfigar All Bhutto's Pakistan People's party, which will have 86 seats, all from West Pakistan.