KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) won ten seats out of total 12 Senate seats for Sindh, and emerged as the leading party in Senate elections from Sindh.
Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan and Pakistan Muslim League-F could win single seat each.
The polling was peacefully held in Sindh Assembly Building from 9:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. under the supervision of Election Commission of Pakistan- Sindh. Of total 166 eligible votes, 161 votes were polled. Five MPAs could not participate because of being out of country. The total strength of Sindh Assembly is 168 members. Two MPAs from PPP died recently.
ECP's Provincial Commissioner M.Yousuf Khattak informed the media that of 161 polled votes, 25 were rejected in different categories.
He said the winners on seven general seats of the Senate included PPP's Moula Bakhsh Chandio, Imamuddin Shauqeen, Raza Rabbani, Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, Muhammad Ali Jamote, Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah from PML-F and Firogh Naseem Advocate from MQM-P.
On two technocrats seats, PPP's Dr. Sikandar Ali Mandhro and Ms. Rukhsana Zuberi were declared successful. PPP's Ms. Qurat-ul-Ain and Ms. Kesu Bai (Kirshna Kolhi) bagged two seats for women. Anwar Laluddin of PPP succeeded on minority seat.
He said ECP would shared detailed results with media on Sunday.
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