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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]
| Party | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Won | Not up | Total | ||||
| Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians | 19 | 22 | 41 | |||
| Pakistan Muslim League (N) | 8 | 6 | 14 | |||
| Awami National Party | 7 | 5 | 12 | |||
| Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) | 4 | 3 | 7 | |||
| Muttahida Qaumi Movement | 4 | 3 | 7 | |||
| Balochistan National Party (Awami) | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| Pakistan Muslim League (Q) | 4 | 0 | 4 | |||
| Pakistan Muslim League | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| National Party | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Pakistan Muslim League (F) | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Independents | 5 | 7 | 12 | |||
| Total | 54 | 50 | 104 | |||
| Source: IPU | ||||||
| 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 |
The following the results of the election, by administrative division. [2]
| Punjab | |||||||
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| 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) |
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