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54 of the 104 seats in theSenate 53 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Senate elections were held inPakistan on 2 March 2012. Fifty-four of the 100 seats in theSenate were up for election with the winning candidates serving six-year terms.[1]
| Party | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Won | Not up | Total | ||||
| Pakistan Peoples Party | 19 | 22 | 41 | |||
| Pakistan Muslim League (N) | 8 | 6 | 14 | |||
| Awami National Party | 7 | 5 | 12 | |||
| Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) | 4 | 3 | 7 | |||
| Muttahida Qaumi Movement – London | 4 | 3 | 7 | |||
| Balochistan National Party (Awami) | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| Pakistan Muslim League (Q) | 4 | 0 | 4 | |||
| Pakistan Muslim League | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| National Party | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Pakistan Muslim League (F) | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Independents | 5 | 7 | 12 | |||
| Total | 54 | 50 | 104 | |||
| Source:IPU | ||||||
| Parties | FATA | Balochistan | Federal Capital | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Punjab | Sindh | Total[2] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan Peoples Party | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 19 |
| Pakistan Muslim League (N) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 8 |
| Awami National Party | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Pakistan Muslim League (Q) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Mutahidda Qaumi Movement | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Balochistan National Party (Awami) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Pakistan Muslim League (F) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Independents | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Total | 4 | 12 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 54 |
The following the results of the election, by administrative division.[2]
| Punjab | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seat Type | Winners | ||||||
| General | Zulfiqar Ali Khosa (PML-N) | Muhammad Hamza (PML-N) | Muhammad Zafar Ullah Khan Dhandla (PML-N) | Rafique Rajwana (PML-N) | Babar Awan (PPP) | Kamil Ali Agha (PML-Q) | Muhammad Mohsin Khan Leghari (IND) |
| Technocrat | Ishaq Dar (PML-N) | Aitzaz Ahsan (PPP) | |||||
| Women | Nuzhat Sadiq (PML-N) | Khalida Parveen (PPP) | |||||
| Minority | Kamran Michael (PML-N) | ||||||
| Sindh | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seat Type | Winners | ||||||
| General | Raza Rabbani (PPP) | Saeed Ghani (PPP) | Mukhtiar Ahmed Dhamrah (PPP) | Karim Ahmed Khawaja (PPP) | Syed Mustafa Kamal (MQM) | Tahir Hussain Mashhadi (MQM) | Muzaffar Hussain Shah (PML-F) |
| Technocrat | Abdul Hafeez Shaikh (PPP) | Farogh Naseem (MQM) | |||||
| Women | Sehar Kamran (PPP) | Nasreen Jalil (MQM) | |||||
| Minority | Hari Ram (PPP) | ||||||
| Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seat Type | Winners | ||||||
| General | Baz Muhammad Khan (ANP) | Shahi Sayed (ANP) | Azam Khan Hoti (ANP) | Haji Saifullah Khan Bangash (PPP) | Ahmed Hassan (PPP) | Muhammad Talha Mahmood (JUI-F) | Nisar Muhammad (PML-N) |
| Technocrat | Ilyas Ahmed Bilour (ANP) | Farhatullah Babar (PPP) | |||||
| Women | Zahida Khan (ANP) | Rubina Khalid (PPP) | |||||
| Minority | Amar Jeet (ANP) | ||||||
| Balochistan | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seat Type | Winners | ||||||
| General | Nawabzada Saifullah Magsi (PPP) | Sardar Fateh Muhammad Muhammad Hassani (PPP) | Mohammad Yousaf (PPP) | Hafiz Hamdullah (JUI-F) | Israr Ullah Zehri (BNP-A) | Saeed Ul Hassan Mandokhail (PML-Q) | Daud Khan Achakzai (ANP) |
| Technocrat | Abdul Sattar (JUI-F) | Rozi Khan Kakar (PPP) | |||||
| Women | Naseema Ehsan (BNP-A) | Rubina Irfan (PML-Q) | |||||
| Minority | Heman Dass (JUI-F) | ||||||
| FATA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seat Type | Winners | |||
| General | Muhammad Saleh Shah (Independent) | Malik Najmul Hassan (Independent) | Hidayat Ullah (Independent) | Hilal-ur-Rehman (Independent) |
| ICT | |
|---|---|
| Seat Type | Winners |
| General | Osman Saifullah (PPP) |
| Technocrat | Mushahid Hussain (PML-Q) |
After the election, on 12 March 2012,Nayyar Hussain Bukhari of the rulingPakistan People's Party (PPP) was elected to the position ofChairman unopposed. On the same day,Sabir Ali Baloch, also of the PPP, elected to the position ofDeputy Chairman unopposed. They replacedFarooq Naek of the PPP andJan Mohammad Jamali of thePakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML(Q)), respectively. Moreover, on 27 April 2012,Jehangir Bader of the PPP succeeded Bukhari as theLeader of the House, and on 15 March 2012,Ishaq Dar of thePakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) became the Leader of the Opposition, succeedingAbdul Ghafoor Haideri of theJamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) (JUI-F).[3][4][5]
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