2006 Pakistani Senate election

2006 Pakistani Senate election

6 & 10 March 2006
50 of the 100 seats in the Senate of Pakistan
Chairman before election Muhammad Mian Soomro PML(Q) Elected Chairman Muhammad Mian Soomro PML(Q)

Senate elections were held in Pakistan on 6–10 March 2006. Half of the 100 seats in the Senate were up for election with the winning candidates serving six-year terms.

Results

Party		Seats
		Won	Total
	Pakistan Muslim League (Q)	20	39
	Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal	10	18
	Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians	5	9
	Mutahidda Qaumi Movement	3	6
	Awami National Party	1	2
	Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party	1	3
	Pakistan Muslim League (N)	1	4
	Pakistan Peoples Party	1	3
	Other parties	4	5
	Independents	4	11
Total		50	100
Source: IPU

Results by administrative division

Below are the results of the election, by administrative division.

Punjab
Seat Type	Winners
General	Jamal Leghari (PML-Q)	Syed Javed Ali Shah (PML-Q)	Javed Ashraf Qazi (PML-Q)	Muhammad Ali Durrani (PML-Q)	Naeem Hussain Chattha (PML-Q)	Babar Awan (PPP)	Ishaq Dar (PML-N)
Technocrat	Syed Muhammad Zafar (PML-Q)			Haroon Akhtar Khan (PML-Q)
Women	Gulshan Saeed (PML-Q)				Nilofar Bakhtiar (PML-Q)

Sindh
Seat Type	Winners
General	Raza Rabbani (PPP)	Safdar Ali Abbasi (PPP)	Ahmad Ali (MQM)	Tahir Hussain Mashhadi (MQM)	Abdul Ghaffar Qureshi (PML-Q)	Abdul Razak Thaheem (PML-F)	Khalid Mehmood Soomro (MMA)
Technocrat	Javaid Laghari (PPP)			Syed Abdul Khaliq Pirzada (MQM)
Women	Ratna Bhagwandas Chawla (PPP)				Semeen Yusuf Siddiqui (PML-Q)

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Seat Type	Winners
General	Khurshid Ahmad (MMA)	Muhammad Talha Mahmood (MMA)	Gul Naseeb Khan (MMA)	Muhammad Ibrahim Khan (MMA)	Ammar Ahmed Khan (PML-Q)	Salim Saifullah Khan (PML-Q)	Mohammad Ghufran Khan (PPP)
Technocrat	Azam Swati (MMA)			Ilyas Ahmed Bilour (ANP)
Women	Afia Zia (MMA)				Fauzia Fakhar-uz-Zaman Khan (PML-Q)

Balochistan
Seat Type	Winners
General	Jan Mohammad Jamali (PML-Q)	Mohabat Khan Marri (PML-Q)	Muhammad Ismail Buledi (MMA)	Israr Ullah Zehri (BNP-A)	Abdul Rahim Khan Mandokhel (PMAP)	Abdul Malik Baloch (NP)	Shahid Hassan Bugti (JWP)
Technocrat	Saeed Ahmed Hashmi (PML-Q)			Rehmatullah Kakar (MMA)
Women	Rehana Yahya Baloch (PML-Q)				Sabina Rauf (MMA)

FATA
Seat Type	Winners
General	Abdul Raziq (Independent)	Abdur Rashid (Independent)	Muhammad Saleh Shah (Independent)	Hafiz Rasheed Ahmed (Independent)

ICT
Seat Type	Winners
General	Tariq Azim Khan (PML-Q)
Technocrat	Wasim Sajjad (PML-Q)

Aftermath

After the election, on 13 March 2006, Muhammad Mian Soomro of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML(Q)) was re-elected to the position of Chairman with 58 votes, defeating Abdul Rahim Khan Mandokhel of the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PMAP), who only received 39 votes. On the same day, Jan Mohammad Jamali of the PML(Q) was elected to the position of Deputy Chairman with 59 votes, defeating Sajid Mir of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML(N)), who only received 39 votes. Jamali replaced Khalilur Rehman, also of the PML(Q). Moreover, Wasim Sajjad of the PML(Q) continued serving as the Leader of the House, whereas Raza Rabbani of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) continued serving as the Leader of the Opposition.