Senate elections were held in Pakistan on 3 March 2009. 50 of the 100 seats in the Senate were up for election with the winning candidates serving six-year terms.
Results
Results by administrative division The following are the results of the elections, by administrative division.
+PunjabSeat TypeWinnersGeneralPervaiz Rashid (PML-N)Raja Zafar-ul-Haq (PML-N)Syed Zafar Ali Shah (PML-N)Mushahid Ullah Khan (PML-N)Jehangir Bader (PPP)Malik Salah-ud-Din Dogar (PPP)Shujaat Hussain (PML-Q)TechnocratSajid Mir (PML-N)Muhammad Kazim Khan (PPP)WomenNajma Hameed (PML-N)Sughra Imam (PPP) +SindhSeat TypeWinnersGeneralMaula Bakhsh Chandio (PPP)Islamuddin Shaikh (PPP)Gul Muhammad Lot (PPP)Faisal Raza Abidi (PPP)Asim Hussain (PPP)Babar Khan Ghauri (MQM)Abdul Haseeb Khan (MQM)TechnocratFarooq Naek (PPP)Rehman Malik (PPP)WomenAlmas Parveen (PPP)Shirala Mallick (MQM) +Khyber PakhtunkhwaSeat TypeWinnersGeneralZahid Khan (ANP)Abdul Nabi Bangash (ANP)Haji Muhammad Adeel (ANP)Gulzar Ahmed Khan (PPP)Waqar Ahmed Khan (PPP)Sardar Ali Khan (PPP)Haji Ghulam Ali (JUI-F)TechnocratAfrasiab Khattak (ANP)Adnan Khan (PPP)WomenFarah Aqil (ANP)Farhat Abbas (PPP) +BalochistanSeat TypeWinnersGeneralNawabzada Muhammad Akbar Magsi (IND)Mir Wali Muhammad Badini (IND)Sabir Ali Baloch (PPP)Lashkari Raisani (PPP)Muhammad Khan Sherani (JUI-F)Mir Muhammad Ali Rind (BNP-A)Hasil Bizenjo (NP)TechnocratHumayun Khan Mandokhel (IND)Abdul Ghafoor Haideri (JUI-F)WomenKalsoom Perveen (IND)Suriya Amiruddin (PPP)
+FATA Seat TypeWinnersGeneralAbbas Khan Afridi (Independent)Haji Khan Afridi (Independent)Muhammad Idrees Khan Safi (Independent)Malik Rashid Ahmed Khan (Independent) +ICTSeat TypeWinnersGeneralNayyar Hussain Bukhari (PPP)WomenSaeeda Iqbal (PPP)
Aftermath After the election, on 13 March 2006, Farooq Naek of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) was elected to the position of Chairman unopposed. He replaced Muhammad Mian Soomro of the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML(Q)). On the same day, Jan Mohammad Jamali of the PML(Q) was re-elected to the position of Deputy Chairman unopposed.
On 9 March 2006, Raza Rabbani of the PPP, the incumbent Leader of the House, resigned from his position in protest of Naek's nomination to the chairmanship by the PPP. On 17 April 2006, he was replaced by Nayyar Hussain Bukhari, also of the PPP. On the same day, Wasim Sajjad of the PML-Q was appointed as the Leader of the Opposition.
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