 | This article needs to be updated.(August 2020) |
Detailed results of Karachi, Pakistan, local government elections are tabulated below.
| This article needs to be updated.(August 2020) |
Detailed results of Karachi, Pakistan, local government elections are tabulated below.
1987 November 30: Local bodies election held throughout the country. MQM won from all seats at Karachi & Hyderabad. [1]
The 2005 local government elections individual results are based on claims made by various parties; the official result has not remained as a part of the Election Commission of Pakistan's record.
The following party results are only based on estimate and is not a definite result. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
| Karachi Local Government Elections, 2005 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Parties | Panel Name | Seats claimed | Claim 1 | Claim 2 | Average | Percentage | |
| 1 |  Muttahida Qaumi Movement | Haq Parast | 105 | 1,362 | 1,400 | 1,381 | 59.0% |  |
| 2 |  Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan | Al-Khidmat | 38 | 299 | 500 | 400 | 16.4% |  |
| 3 |  Pakistan Peoples Party | Awam Dost | 25 | 202 | 400 | 301 | 12.4% |  |
| 4 |  Awami National Party | Khidmatgar | 3 | 40 | 100 | 70 | 3% |  |
| 5 |  Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) | Insan Dost | 31 | 100 | 65 | 2.7% |  | |
| 6 |  Pakistan Muslim League (N) | Watan Nawaz | 28 | 80 | 54 | 2.2% |  | |
| 7 | Jamiat Ulema Pakistan | Al-Khadim | 10 | 80 | 45 | 1.8% |  | |
| 8 | Sunni Tehreek | Insan Dost | - | 25 | 12 | 0.5% |  | |
| 9 | Pakistan Muslim League (Q) | Khushal Pakistan | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 10 | Independents | 100 | 100 | 100 | 4.1% |  | ||
| Estimated total | 171 | 2,072 | 2,785 | 2,428 | ||||
| Actual total | 178 | 2,314 | 5% error | |||||
| Turn out | 30% | 50% | 40% |  | ||||
In contrast to latest elections held in 2015, the mayors were elected in CDGK by direct voting of all elected counsellors and not just nazims[ clarification needed ] or chairmen of a union council/committee. Each union council consisted of 13 members, which gave a total electorate of 2,314 members from 178 union councils.
There were 209 union committees and 38 union councils in Karachi. [7] [8] Both union councils and union committees are similar in that they are territorial units and composition; [9] the main difference between them is that the union committee represents an urban area whereas the union council represents the rural or suburban areas. [10] Each union council has a union council chairman and one member of the district council. The chairman of each district is selected by the chairmen of union councils and union committees.
The following is the result of union committees in local government election held on 5 December 2015. [11] [12]
| Karachi Local Government Election for Union committees, 2015 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Parties | KMC | Malir | East | West | Central | South | Korangi | Percentage | |
| 1 | Muttahida Qaumi Movement | 135 | 1 | 20 | 21 | 50 | 10 | 33 | 64.5% |  |
| 2 | Pakistan Peoples Party | 24 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 10 | - | 11.5% |  |
| 3 | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | 19 | 4 | 1 | 9 | - | 4 | 1 | 9.2% |  |
| 4 |  Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf | 10 | - | 2 | 4 | - | 2 | 2 | 4.8% |  |
| 5 | Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 3.5% |  |
| 6 | Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 0.5% |  |
| 7 | Awami National Party | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 0.5% | |
| 8 | Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 0.5% | |
| 9 | Independents | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | 4 | 1 | 5.2% |  |
| Total | 209 | 13 | 31 | 46 | 51 | 31 | 37 | 100% | ||
| Polled votes | 2,517,265 | 36% |  | |||||||
| Total votes | 6,972,454 | 100% | ||||||||
There was a total of 99 seats reserved in four different categories for the union committees and all 308 members of the union committee select the mayor and deputy mayor of Karachi. The mayoral election was held on 24 August 2016. Waseem Akhtar was elected as the city's mayor by securing 196 out of 294 (305 total) votes in his favor. [13] [14] The Pakistan Peoples Party candidate secured second position with 98 votes.
The Pakistan Peoples Party won the majority of the seats in union councils. [15] [16] The following is the result of Karachi union councils in the local government election held on 5 December 2015. [17]
| Karachi Local Government Union council Election, 2015 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Parties | Total | Malir | West | Percentage | |||||
| 1 | Muttahida Qaumi Movement | 0 | - | - | 0% |  | ||||
| 2 | Pakistan Peoples Party | 19 | 16 | 3 | 50% |  | ||||
| 3 | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | 1 | 1 | - | 2.63% |  | ||||
| 4 | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf | 0 | - | - | 0% |  | ||||
| 5 | Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan | 0 | - | - | 0% |  | ||||
| 6 | Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) | 1 | 1 | - | 2.63% |  | ||||
| 7 | Awami National Party | 0 | - | - | 0% |  | ||||
| 8 | Pak Mus Alliance | 1 | 1 | - | 2.63% |  | ||||
| 9 | Independents | 16 | 13 | 3 | 42.1% |  | ||||
| Total | 38 | 32 | 4 | 100% | ||||||
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