The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Tuesday took the lead in the Senate polls with 11 seats, while Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) clinched six seats.
The Muttahida Qaudmi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) and an independent candidate Faisal Vawda secured one seat each.
The polling for the 19 vacant seats was held in the National, Punjab, and Sindh assemblies while elections on 11 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s seats were postponed by the Election Commission over the “denial” of oath-taking to the lawmakers elected on reserved seats.
Overall 356 lawmakers cast their votes in the upper house of parliament’s elections, whereas, the votes of seven NA lawmakers were rejected.
Sindh
The ruling party in Sindh — the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) — managed to win 10 Senate seats from the province, whereas, each Senate seat was won by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and an independent candidate.
On the general seat, Ashraf Ali Jatoi, Dost Ali Jessar, Kazim Ali Shah, Masroor Ahsan, and Nadeem Bhutto have been declared victors, as per preliminary results.
MQM-P’s Amir Chishti has been elected senator on a general seat while independent candidate Faisal Vawda also won the general seat in the Senate.
PPP leaders Rubina Saadat Qaimkhani and Quratulain Marri were elected to women’s seats while another PPP candidate Punjho Mil Bhail won a reserved seat for the minority.
PPP’s Sarmad Ali and Zamir Ghumro won technocrat seats.
In Punjab, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb grabbed victory in the upper house polls on technocrat seats after securing 128 votes. PML-N leader and Federal Minister for Energy Musadik Malik also won a technocrat seat after securing 121 votes.
PML-N’s Anusha Rahman and Bushra Anjum Butt have been declared victors on women’s seats, while PML-N’s Tahir Khalil Sindhu has been elected on a minority seat.
In the federal capital, the ruling alliance candidates won two seats.
Interestingly, the polls were scheduled to be held in the KP Assembly but they were postponed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) after the opposition members filed a plea seeking postponement due to a stand-off with the provincial government over oath-taking of MPAs-elect on the reserved seats.
