One open Senate seat from Islamabad was put to a vote in the National Assembly chamber.
With 204 votes, PPP candidate Yousaf Raza Gilani was proclaimed the victor, with Chaudhary Ilyas Mehrban of the Sunni Ittehad Council coming in second with 88 votes.
With 58 and 57 votes, respectively, PPP candidates Jam Saifullah Dharijo and Aslam Abro were proclaimed the victors of the Sindh Assembly. Shazia Sohail and Nazirullah of SIC both received four votes. 124 MPAs participated in the polling, including 116 PPP and 8 SIC members.
The resignations of Pakistan Peoples Party members Nisar Ahmed Khuhro and Jam Mehtab Dahar have left both of these seats empty.
Mir Abdul Qudus Bizenjo of the Pakistan People’s Party was proclaimed the victor in Balochistan with 23 votes, while Abdul Shakoor Khan Ghaibai of JUI-F and Mir Dostain Domki of PML-N were proclaimed the victors for the Senate’s open seats.
A timetable for elections to fill 48 vacant Senate seats was released earlier in the day by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
The timetable states that voting will take place on the second of the next month from 9 am to 4 pm. From tomorrow to Saturday, the candidates may submit their nomination documents to the returning officers.
However, this month’s 19th has been set aside for the examination of nomination materials. On the 26th of this month, a new list of candidates will be released, and by the 27th of the same month, candidates may withdraw their candidacy papers.
On this month’s eleventh, the terms of the current members came to an end, leaving these seats empty.
