45 Senate seats up for election: Election Commission

ISLAMABAD: The senate elections are scheduled to take place on March 2 and 98 candidates will contest 45 seats.

According to the Election Commission of Pakistan, 9 candidates have already been elected to Senate seats unopposed.

PPP candidate Usman Saifullah has been elected to the general seat from Islamabad while Mushaid Hussain from the PML-Q has been elected to the technocrat seat.

PPP leaders Aitzaz Ahsan and PML-N leader Ishaq Dar have been elected to two senate technocrat seats in Punjab.

PML-N leader Nuzhat Sadiq and PPP leader Khalida Parveen have been elected to the women’s senate seats in the province while Kamran Michael from the PML-N has been elected to the minority seat.

In Sindh, Abdul Hafeez Sheikh from the PPP and Barrister Farogh Naseem of the MQM were elected to the technocrat seats.