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1960 Pakistani presidential confidence referendum

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An indirect referendum on confidence in President Muhammad Ayub Khan was held in Pakistan on 14 February 1960,^[1] with voters asked whether he should remain president for another five years, having held the position since 1958 after overthrowing the previous government in a military coup.

The vote was held under the basic democracies system introduced after the coup, under which indirect votes were carried out by a 80,000-member electoral college. Its members were elected from single-member constituencies (40,000 in each wing), one for every 600 voters.^[2] The elections to the electoral college took place between December 1959 and January 1960 on a non-partisan basis (as political parties were banned).^[2]

Around 96% of members of the electoral college voted in favour of Khan.^[2] He was sworn in three days after the vote.^[3]

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