2012 Pakistani Senate election

Senate elections were held in Pakistan on 2 March 2012. Fifty-four of the 100 seats in the Senate were up for election with the winning candidates serving six-year terms.[1]

2012 Pakistani Senate election

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54 of the 104 seats in the Senate
53 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Nayyar Hussain Bukhari Ishaq Dar
Party PPP PML(N)
Last election 27 7
Seats won 41 14
Seat change Increase14 Increase7

Results by province

Chairman before election

Farooq Naek
PPP

Elected Chairman

Nayyar Hussain Bukhari
PPP

Results

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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

Results by administrative division

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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)

Aftermath

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After the election, on 12 March 2012, Nayyar Hussain Bukhari of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) was elected to the position of Chairman unopposed. On the same day, Sabir Ali Baloch, also of the PPP, elected to the position of Deputy Chairman unopposed. They replaced Farooq Naek of the PPP and Jan Mohammad Jamali of the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML(Q)), respectively. Moreover, on 27 April 2012, Jehangir Bader of the PPP succeeded Bukhari as the Leader of the House, and on 15 March 2012, Ishaq Dar of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) became the Leader of the Opposition, succeeding Abdul Ghafoor Haideri of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) (JUI-F).[3][4][5]

References

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  1. ^ "Electoral Calendar - worldwide elections". www.mherrera.org.
  2. ^ a b "Names of Returned Candidates alongwith Party Affiliation". Archived from the original on 2012-04-01. Retrieved 2012-03-19.
  3. ^ "Nayyar Bukhari takes charge as Chairman Senate". DAWN.COM. 2012-03-12. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
  4. ^ "Ishaq Dar new leader of opposition in Senate". DAWN.COM. 2012-03-15. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
  5. ^ "Jahangir Badar named leader of the house in Senate". DAWN.COM. 2012-04-27. Retrieved 2024-11-03.