Polling for 52 Senate seats concludes

The polling for 52 Senate seats has concluded in the national and provincial assemblies, as the votes for 133 candidates contesting for a seat in the Upper House of Parliament have been cast.

According to unofficial and unverified results, 11 candidates from Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) have won the Senate seats from Punjab, while both the Senate seats from Islamabad have also been won by PML-N candidates.

Four independent candidates have been elected from FATA. The four candidates include Hidayatullah, Hilalur Rehman, Shamim Afridi and Mirza Mohammad Afridi.

Meanwhile out of 12 seats, Pakistan Peoples Party has managed to secure five general seats from Sindh. Successful PPP candidates includes Maula Bux Chandio and Raza Rabbani, who has been re-elected.

Maryam Nawaz, daughter of deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, took to twitter to celebrate the PML-N's accomplishment. Earlier, just after the polling began, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah had confidently said that PML-N will win all the 12 Senate seats from Punjab.

A total of 33 candidates are contesting on 12 seats from Sindh, 20 candidates are contesting 12 seats from Punjab, 25 on 11 seats from Balochistan, 26 on 11 seats from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, five on two seats from Islamabad and  24 on four seats from FATA.