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Senate elections were held in Pakistan on 3 March 2009. 50 of the 100 seats in the Senate were up for election with the winning candidates serving six-year terms.
| Party | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Won | Not up | Total | ||||
| Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians | 22 | 5 | 27 | |||
| Pakistan Muslim League (Q) | 1 | 20 | 21 | |||
| Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal | 0 | 9 | 9 | |||
| Pakistan Muslim League (N) | 6 | 1 | 7 | |||
| Awami National Party | 5 | 1 | 6 | |||
| Mutahidda Qaumi Movement | 3 | 3 | 6 | |||
| Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Balochistan National Party (Awami) | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Jamhoori Wattan Party | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| National Party | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Pakistan Muslim League (F) | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Pakistan People's Party | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Independents | 8 | 5 | 13 | |||
| Total | 50 | 50 | 100 | |||
| Source: IPU | ||||||
The following are the results of the elections, by administrative division. [1]
| Punjab | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seat Type | Winners | ||||||
| General | Pervaiz Rashid (PML-N) | Raja Zafar-ul-Haq (PML-N) | Syed Zafar Ali Shah (PML-N) | Mushahid Ullah Khan (PML-N) | Jehangir Bader (PPP) | Malik Salah-ud-Din Dogar (PPP) | Shujaat Hussain (PML-Q) |
| Technocrat | Sajid Mir (PML-N) | Muhammad Kazim Khan (PPP) | |||||
| Women | Najma Hameed (PML-N) | Sughra Imam (PPP) | |||||
| Sindh | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seat Type | Winners | ||||||
| General | Maula Bakhsh Chandio (PPP) | Islamuddin Shaikh (PPP) | Gul Muhammad Lot (PPP) | Faisal Raza Abidi (PPP) | Asim Hussain (PPP) | Babar Khan Ghauri (MQM) | Abdul Haseeb Khan (MQM) |
| Technocrat | Farooq Naek (PPP) | Rehman Malik (PPP) | |||||
| Women | Almas Parveen (PPP) | Shirala Mallick (MQM) | |||||
| Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seat Type | Winners | ||||||
| General | Zahid Khan (ANP) | Abdul Nabi Bangash (ANP) | Haji Muhammad Adeel (ANP) | Gulzar Ahmed Khan (PPP) | Waqar Ahmed Khan (PPP) | Sardar Ali Khan (PPP) | Haji Ghulam Ali (JUI-F) |
| Technocrat | Afrasiab Khattak (ANP) | Adnan Khan (PPP) | |||||
| Women | Farah Aqil (ANP) | Farhat Abbas (PPP) | |||||
| Balochistan | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seat Type | Winners | ||||||
| General | Nawabzada Muhammad Akbar Magsi (IND) | Mir Wali Muhammad Badini (IND) | Sabir Ali Baloch (PPP) | Lashkari Raisani (PPP) | Muhammad Khan Sherani (JUI-F) | Mir Muhammad Ali Rind (BNP-A) | Hasil Bizenjo (NP) |
| Technocrat | Humayun Khan Mandokhel (IND) | Abdul Ghafoor Haideri (JUI-F) | |||||
| Women | Kalsoom Perveen (IND) | Suriya Amiruddin (PPP) | |||||
| FATA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seat Type | Winners | |||
| General | Abbas Khan Afridi (Independent) | Haji Khan Afridi (Independent) | Muhammad Idrees Khan Safi (Independent) | Malik Rashid Ahmed Khan (Independent) |
| ICT | |
|---|---|
| Seat Type | Winners |
| General | Nayyar Hussain Bukhari (PPP) |
| Women | Saeeda Iqbal (PPP) |
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