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Senate elections were held in Pakistan on 24 & 27 February 2003. All 100 seats in the Senate were up for election with half of the winning candidates serving six-year terms, and the other half serving three-year terms. [1] [2]
In Punjab, Sindh, NWFP, and Balochistan, the election was held on 24 February, while in FATA and Islamabad, it was held on 27 February.
| Party | Administrative division | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Punjab | Sindh | NWFP | Balochistan | FATA | ICT | |||
| PML(Q) | 16 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 35 | |
| MMA | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 19 | |
| PPP | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| MQM | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
| PML(N) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| ANP | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| NA | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| PMAP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| BNM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| BNP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| BNP(A) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| JWP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| PML(F) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| PPP(S) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Independent | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 12 | |
| Total | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 100 | |
Below are the candidates who won the election, by administrative division. [2] [3]
| Punjab | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seat Type | Winners | ||||||
| General | Shaukat Aziz (PML-Q) | Javed Ashraf Qazi (PML-Q) | Tariq Azim Khan (PML-Q) | Kamil Ali Agha (PML-Q) | Syed Dilawar Abbas (PML-Q) | Muhammad Ali Durrani (PML-Q) | Naeem Hussain Chattha (PML-Q) |
| Mohammad Amjad Abbas (PML-Q) | Asif Akhtar Hashmi (PML-Q) | Zafar Iqbal Chaudhry (PML-Q) | Syed Sajjad Bokhari (PPP) | Latif Khosa (PPP) | Ishaq Dar (PPP) | Sajid Mir (PML-N) | |
| Technocrat | Syed Muhammad Zafar (PML-Q) | Khalid Ranjha (PML-Q) | Anwar Bhinder (PML-Q) | Mohammad Akbar Khawaja (PPP) | |||
| Women | Gulshan Saeed (PML-Q) | Razina Alam Khan (PML-Q) | Nighat Agha (PML-Q) | Saadia Abbasi (PML-Q) | |||
| Sindh | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seat Type | Winners | ||||||
| General | Safdar Ali Abbasi (PPP) | Raza Rabbani (PPP) | Abdullah Riar (PPP) | Abdul Latif Ansari (PPP) | Enver Baig (PPP) | Babar Khan Ghauri (MQM) | Abbas Kumaili (MQM) |
| Ahmad Ali (MQM) | Muhammad Mian Soomro (PML-Q) | Abdul Hafeez Shaikh (PML-Q) | Shah Ahmad Noorani (MMA) | Asif Jatoi [4] (NA) | Abdul Razak Thaheem (PML-F) | Muhammad Amin Dadabhoy (Independent) | |
| Technocrat | Nisar Memon (PML-Q) | Tanvir Khalid (PML-Q) | Farooq Naek (PPP) | Muhammad Saeed Siddiqui (MQM) | |||
| Women | Abida Saif (MQM) | Nighat Mirza (MQM) | Rukhsana Zuberi (PPP) | Bibi Yasmeen Shah (PML-Q) | |||
| NWFP | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seat Type | Winners | ||||||
| General | Khurshid Ahmad (MMA) | Murad Ali Shah (MMA) | Hidayat Khan (MMA) | Gul Naseeb Khan (MMA) | Rahat Hussain (MMA) | Sahibzada Khalid Jan (MMA) | Muhammad Ibrahim Khan (MMA) |
| Asfandyar Wali Khan (ANP) | Khalilur Rehman (PML-Q) | Mehtab Abbasi (PML-N) | Shuja-ul-Mulk (PPP-S) | Gulzar Ahmed Khan (Independent) | Waqar Ahmed Khan (Independent) | Azam Swati (Independent) | |
| Technocrat | Sami-ul-Haq (MMA) | Muhammad Saeed (MMA) | Ilyas Ahmed Bilour (ANP) | Farhatullah Babar (PPP) | |||
| Women | Kausar Firdous (MMA) | Mumtaz Bibi (MMA) | Fauzia Fakhar-uz-Zaman Khan (PML-Q) | Anisa Zeb Tahirkheli (PPP) | |||
| Balochistan | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seat Type | Winners | ||||||
| General | Mir Wali Muhammad Badini (PML-Q) | Muhammad Sarwar Khan (PML-Q) | Muhammad Naseer Mengal (PML-Q) | Ayaz Mandokhel (PML-Q) | Muhammad Akram (PML-Q) | Azizullah Satakzai (MMA) | Muhammad Ismail Buledi (MMA) |
| Rehmatullah Kakar (MMA) | Liaqat Ali Bangulzai (MMA) | Nawab Ayaz Jogezai (PMAP) | Raza Muhammad Raza (PMAP) | Muhammad Aslam Buledi (BNM) | Sanaullah Baloch (BNP) | Mohim Khan Baloch (BNP-A) | |
| Technocrat | Kamran Murtaza (MMA) | Agha Muhammad (MMA) | Saeed Ahmed Hashmi (PML-Q) | Amanullah Kanrani (JWP) | |||
| Women | Roshan Khursheed Bharucha (PML-Q) | Kalsoom Perveen (PML-Q) | Agha Pari Gul (PML-Q) | Shereen Noor (NA) | |||
| FATA [1] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seat Type | Winners | |||||||
| General | Malik Rashid Ahmed Khan (Independent) | Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi (Independent) | Hafiz Abdul Malik Qadri (Independent) | Syed Sajjad Hussain Mian (Independent) | Syed Muhammad Hussain (Independent) | Tahir Iqbal Orakzai (Independent) | Mateen Shah (Independent) | Muhammad Ajmal Khan (Independent) |
| ICT [1] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Seat Type | Winners | |
| General | Mushahid Hussain (PML-Q) | Abdul Ghafoor Ahmed (MMA) |
| Technocrat | Wasim Sajjad (PML-Q) | |
| Women | Tahira Latif (PML-Q) | |
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