The ruling coalition secured the majority of 19 Senate seats on Tuesday, while elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were postponed due to a dispute regarding the swearing-in of opposition members elected to reserved seats.
Unofficial results revealed that out of the 19 Senate seats contested, the PML-N won six seats, and the PPP won 11 seats.
Following these results, the PML-N now holds 19 seats in the 96-member House, while the PPP’s count has risen to 24. It’s worth noting that the PTI has 20 members in the Senate.
In Balochistan, elections were unnecessary as lawmakers had been elected unopposed to 11 vacant seats last month.
In Islamabad, Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar won the technocrat seat with 222 votes, with Raja Ansar Mehmood of the Sunni Ittehad Council coming second with 81 votes. Meanwhile, PPP’s Rana Mehmoodul Hassan secured 224 votes to win the general seat, while PTI’s Farzand Hussain Shah garnered 79 votes.
In Punjab, all seven candidates for general seats were elected unopposed in March. Today, polls were conducted for two women, two technocrats, and one minority seat. Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb and Petroleum Minister Musadiq Malik secured the technocrat seats with 128 and 121 votes, respectively. PML-N’s Anusha Rehman and Bushra Anjum won the women’s reserved seats with 125 and 123 votes, respectively, while PML-N’s Khalil Tahir Sindhu secured the minority seat.
In Sindh, the ruling PPP secured 10 out of 12 seats, with the remaining two going to MQM-P and an independent candidate. PPP’s candidates won across general, technocrat, women’s, and minority seats, with CM Murad Ali Shah expressing hope for a clean sweep of PPP candidates in the Senate.
