[1] The election saw each of Parliament's 272 geographical constituencies return one MP to the National Assembly.

[4] Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah won a PPP leadership vote to succeed Nisar Ali Khan as permanent Leader of the Opposition.

[6] Members of the 14th National Assembly took an oath on 1 June 2013,[7] and marked the constitutional transition of power from one democratically elected government to another for the first time in the history of Pakistan.

[8] In July 2017, the Supreme Court of Pakistan disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding membership in the National Assembly following an investigation on corruption allegations regarding his family's wealth, forcing him to resign as prime minister.

[9] Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was elected by the National Assembly as the new prime minister on 1 August 2017.