2015 Pakistani Senate election

none 2015 Pakistani Senate election Pakistan legislative no 2012 Pakistani Senate election 2012 2018 52 of the 104 seats in the Senate of Pakistan 53 5 March 2015 Pakistan Peoples Party 100px 41 27 14 Pakistan Muslim League (N) 150px 14 26 12 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf 100px 0 6 6 Muttahida Qaumi Movement – London 100px 7 8 1 2015 Pakistan Senate election results.svg Chairman Nayyar Hussain Bukhari Pakistan Peoples Party Raza Rabbani Pakistan Peoples Party Elected Chairman Senate elections were held in Pakistan on 5 March 2015 to elect the replacements for 52 retiring senators. Those retiring include chairman Nayyar Hussain Bukhari and deputy chairman Sabir Ali Baloch of the upper house. Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), the majority party in Senate, would lose 21 members, followed by Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz would lose 9 and Awami National Party would lose 6 members.http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2015/02/12/national/ecp-postpones-senate-elections-to-march-5th/ ECP postpones Senate Elections to March 5th 2015-02-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20150507035558/http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2015/02/12/national/ecp-postpones-senate-elections-to-march-5th/ 2015-05-07 dead PPP, MQM hope to win Senate elections unopposed According to the schedule issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), nomination papers for the election were submitted on 12 and 13 February, while scrutiny of the papers was held on 16 and 17 February. The list of contesting candidates was issued on 25 February. Polling for the 52 seats will be held on 5 March. For 11 seats, each of the four provinces' polling will be held in the provincial capitals, while polling for seats from the federal capital and FATA will be held in the National Assembly. According to the ECP notification, in each province elections will be held for seven general seats, two seats for technocrats and Ulema and two reserved seats for women.http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-2-223983-Govt-waiting-for-2015-Senate-change-to-bring-new-laws Govt waiting for 2015 Senate change to bring new laws 2015-02-14 2015-02-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20150214100227/http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-2-223983-Govt-waiting-for-2015-Senate-change-to-bring-new-laws dead http://nation.com.pk/national/04-Dec-2014/pti-likely-to-keep-na-seats-for-senate-election PTI likely to keep NA seats for Senate election 2015-02-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20150414101652/http://nation.com.pk/national/04-Dec-2014/pti-likely-to-keep-na-seats-for-senate-election 2015-04-14 dead Elections are held indirectly; to win one seat in Senate, the candidates would require 52 votes from the Punjab Assembly, 24 from the Sindh Assembly, 18 from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly and 9 from the Balochistan Assembly.http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/national/06-Feb-2015/political-parties-expedite-campaign-for-senate-elections Political parties expedite campaign for Senate elections 2015-02-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20150214095858/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/national/06-Feb-2015/political-parties-expedite-campaign-for-senate-elections 2015-02-14 dead PML-N announces candidates for Senate polls Election Day According to The Express Tribune, four contestants already elected unopposed in Sindh – two each from the PPP and MQM – voting was held for the remaining 48 seats with members of the provincial assemblies electing senators on their respective provincial quotas – seven for Sindh, 11 for Punjab, 12 each for Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and Balochistan for different categories of seats. Members of the National Assembly will be voting for two seats for Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) while MNAs from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) will elect four senators from the tribal belt. According to the final list of contestants notified by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), 84 candidates will contest for 33 general seats from the provinces, Fata and the ICT while 22 candidates will contest for eight seats reserved for women in the provinces and ICT. Eighteen candidates will contest for eight seats reserved for technocrats, including Ulema, while eight others will run for two seats – one each from K-P and Balochistan – reserved for minorities.LIVE: Polling for Senate elections underway Violation of party discipline According to the Pakistan Today, in clear violation of the party discipline, members of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan assemblies have proposed and seconded independent or other political parties’ nominees for the Senate elections.Senate polling suspended in Punjab, KP assemblies on rigging claims Election Fraud Allegations and Delays Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Pakistan Peoples Party member of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly, Nighat Orakzai claimed that the ballot papers are being taken to outside the assembly and being stamped, while talking to Dunya News. She alleged to be verbally abused by a government parliamentarians. Additionally, the media was barred from entering the premises of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa assembly. Around 11:00 am PST the polling was stopped at the assembly and failed to resume. A lengthy meeting between Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and opposition members took place to resume the voting process, however failed to resume the elections leading the provincial government recommending Election Commission to delay the vote.Senate elections: Polling stopped in KP Assembly after rigging allegations ECP delayed polling in the K-P Assembly has been to 8pm PST. Federally Administered Tribal Areas: According to Radio Pakistan around 12:48pm, polling for the election of four Senators from FATA was stopped after protest from parliamentarians in protest from a Presidential ordinance restricts the representatives from FATA to just one vote instead of four votes.MNAs from FATA likely to boycott Senate elections over issuance of presidential ordinance Candidates Punjab For Punjab, 15 candidates eyed seven general seats, four candidates eyeing two women-reserved seats and two candidates eyeing two technocrat seats.Parties announce candidates for Senate poll Province Name Punjab Pervez Rashid (PMLN) Punjab Mushahid Ullah Khan (PMLN) Punjab Abdul Qayyum (PMLN) Punjab Begum Najma Hameed (PMLN) Punjab Raja Zafar ul Haq (PMLN) Punjab Sajid Mir (PMLN) Punjab Nadeem Afzal Chan (PPP) Punjab Chauhary Tanveer Khan (PMLN) Punjab Dr Asif Kirmani (PMLN) Punjab Dr Ghous Niazi (PMLN) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa For Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 17 candidates ran for seven general seats.candidates in run for 52 Senate seatsSeptember 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes Province Name Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Lt-Gen (retd) Salahuddin Tirmizi(PMLN) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Noor Alam Khan (PPP) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khanzada Khan (PPP) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Maulana Gul Naseeb Khan (JUI-F) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Maulana Shuja-ul-Mulk (JUI-F) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mohsin Aziz (PTI) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Shibly Faraz (PTI) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Fazal Muhammad (PTI) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Salman Afridi (PTI) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Samina Abid (PTI) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Rabia Basri (PTI) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Noman Wazir (PTI) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Abdul Latif Yousafzai (PTI) Sindh For Sindh, 18 candidates eyed seven general seats, six candidates eyeing two women seats and four candidates eyeing two technocrat seats Province Name Sindh Mian Atiq ur Rehman (MQM) Sindh Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif (MQM) Sindh Nighat Khatoon (MQM) Sindh Raza Zaidi (MQM) Sindh Farooq Naek (PPP) Sindh Rehman Malik (PPP) Sindh Islamuddin Shaikh (PPP) Sindh Saleem Mandviwalla (PPP) Sindh Gyan Chand (PPP) Sindh Abdul Latif Ansari (PPP) Sindh Sassui Palijo (PPP) Sindh Syed Zafar Ali Shah (PMLN) Balochistan In Balochistan's Senate elections Niamatullah Zehri of PML-N, Abdul Ghafoor Haidery of JUI-F, Usman Kakar and Sardar Mohammad Azam Khan of Pakhtunkhuwa Milli Awami Party, Hasil Khan Bazenjo of National Party, Dr Jahanzaib Jamaldini of BNP (Mengal), and Yousaf Badeni (independent) have been elected. Mir Kabir Ahmed of National Party and Engineer Agha Shahbaz Khan Durrani of PML-N were elected as senator on Technocrats while Kalsoom Perveen of PML-N and Gul Bashra of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party won the elections on women reserved seats. Dr Ashok Kumar of National Party was elected as senator on minority seat. Results According to unofficial results released by Dunya News, Pakistan Muslim League (N) won 16 seats, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) got seven, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf won five, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) collected four, the National Party and Pukhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party got three seats each, Balochistan National Party and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) got one seat each while an independent candidate also became senator from Balochistan. The PML-N and its allied parties in the province including NP and PkMAP won nine seats.PML-N takes the cake, PPP eyes cherry Results by Administrative Unit Provinces +PunjabSeat TypeWinnersGeneralMushahid Ullah (PML-N)Pervaiz Rashid (PML-N)Nehal Hashmi (PML-N)Abdul Qayyum (PML-N)Chaudhry Tanvir (PML-N)Saleem Zia (PML-N)Ghaus Khan Niazi (PML-N)TechnocratRaja Zafar-ul-Haq (PML-N)Sajid Mir (PML-N)WomenNajma Hameed (PML-N)Ayesha Raza (PML-N) SindhSeat TypeWinnersGeneralIslamuddin Shaikh (PPP)Gian Chand (PPP)Saleem Mandviwalla (PPP)Abdul Latif Ansari (PPP)Rehman Malik (PPP)Khushbakht Shujaat (MQM)Muhammad Ateeq Shaikh (MQM)TechnocratFarooq Naek (PPP)Muhammad Ali Saif (MQM)WomenSassui Palijo (PPP)Nighat Mirza (MQM) +Khyber PakhtunkhwaSeat TypeWinnersGeneralShibli Faraz (PTI)Mohsin Aziz (PTI)Liaqat Khan Tarakai (PTI)Atta-ur-Rehman (JUI-F)Siraj-ul-Haq (JI)Khanzada Khan (PPP)Salahuddin Tirmizi (PML-N)TechnocratNauman Wazir Khattak (PTI)Muhammad Javed Abbasi (PML-N)WomenSamina Abid (PTI)Sitara Ayaz (ANP)MinorityJohn Kenneth Williams (PTI) +BalochistanSeat TypeWinnersGeneralHasil Bizenjo (NP)Usman Kakar (PKMAP)Sardar Muhammad Azam Khan Musakhel (PKMAP)Mir Naimatullah Zehri (PML-N)Abdul Ghafoor Haideri (JUI-F)Mir Muhammad Yousaf Badini (IND)Jehanzeb Jamaldini (BNP-M)TechnocratMir Kabeer Ahmed Muhammad Shahi (NP)Agha Shahbaz Khan Durrani (PML-N)WomenGul Bashra (PKMAP)Kalsoom Perveen (PML-N)MinorityAshok Kumar (NP) Federally Administered Units NOTE: FATA only has general seats, while Islamabad has 1 general and 1 technocrat seat that were up in this election. +FATA Seat TypeWinnersGeneralAurangzeb Khan (Independent)Taj Muhammad Afridi (Independent)Haji Momin Khan Afridi (Independent)Sajjad Hussain Turi (Independent) Composition Before 2015 elections + ↓ 40 16 12 36 Pakistan Peoples Party Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz Awami National Party Others After 2015 elections + ↓ 27 26 7 6 38 Pakistan Peoples Party Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz Awami National Party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Others Aftermath As a result of the elections, on 12 March 2015, Raza Rabbani of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) was elected the chairmanship, unopposed. On the same day, Abdul Ghafoor Haideri of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) (JUI-F) was elected the deputy chairmanship, garnering 74 votes and defeating Shibli Faraz of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), who only received 16 votes. Rabbani and Haideri succeeded Nayyar Hussain Bukhari and Sabir Ali Baloch, both of the PPP, respectively. On the same day, Raja Zafar-ul-Haq of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML(N)) was re-appointed as the Leader of the House, while Aitzaz Ahsan of the PPP was re-appointed as the Leader of the Opposition.Wasim Amir 2015-03-13 Rabbani, Haideri sworn in as Senate chairman, deputy https://www.dawn.com/news/1169232 2024-11-03 DAWN.COM enRaja Muhammad Zafar-ul-Haq https://www.senate.gov.pk/en/profile.php?uid=863 senate.gov.pk11 March 2015 PPP plays another hand: Aitzaz Ahsan named as leader of opposition in Senate https://tribune.com.pk/story/851518/ppp-plays-another-hand-aitzaz-ahsan-named-as-leader-of-opposition-in-senate/ 3 February 2017 The Express Tribune References Sen Category:Senate elections in Pakistan