Against that background, this section examines some of the social factors and trend
exhibited in the two local government elections 2001 and 2005 held under the
DOPP For this purpose reliance has been placed on secondary data and published
sources. Pattan Development Organisation (Pattan) carried out substantial work in
collecting data from the two elections, and here we rely on their data (Pattan 2006)
plus other sources where available (see also Bari 2001)