Senate election 2021: Polling underway for 37 seats in NA, provincial assemblies

By Muhammad JuniadPublished On 05 Jan 2023

• Polling for Senate election scheduled from 9am to 5pm.
• MPs will be voting on 37 vacant seats of the Senate with 11 senators elected unopposed from Punjab.
• The most-watched contest will be between PDM's Yousuf Raza Gilani and PTI's Hafeez Shaikh.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is all set for the high-stakes Senate polls today  with polling scheduled from 9am to 5pm.

Lawmakers are casting votes in one of the country's most hotly contested Senate elections where the transparency of the electoral process has become a key issue.

The MPs are voting on 37 vacant seats of the Senate with 11 senators elected unopposed from Punjab. Now the polling is being held for 12 seats each of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 11 of Sindh and two of the federal capital.

318 votes have been polled out of 341 till 02:15pm in the National Assembly. 

MPAs from the three provincial assemblies are casting their vote for the candidates fielded from Balochistan, KP and Sindh, while MNAs will choose the representative from the federal capital.

The results are expected to be announced at 6pm for Islamabad seats while in other assemblies the winning candidates would be announced around 7pm.