Provincial elections were held in the Pakistani province of Sindh to elect the members of the 13th Provincial Assembly of Sindh on 25 July 2018, alongside nationwide general elections and three other provincial elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Punjab. The remaining two territories of Pakistan, AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan, were ineligible to vote due to their disputed status.

Background Following the 2013 elections, despite a significant drop in vote share, the left-wing Pakistan Peoples Party remained the largest party in the assembly and held a comfortable majority with 91 seats. They were followed by the secularist, Muhajir-centric, Muttahida Qaumi Movement, which repeated its 2008 exploits, by securing 51 seats. New additions into the assembly included Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, a welfarist, anti-establishment party led by former cricketer Imran Khan, who emerged as the second largest party in Karachi and gained 4 seats. Meanwhile, Pakistan Muslim League (F), PPP's perennial rival in Interior Sindh, held 11 seats.

Following the elections for the slot of chief ministership, Pakistan Peoples Party was easily able to form a government in Sindh for the ninth time in its existence. Party veteran Qaim Ali Shah was elected in the role of provincial chief minister for the third time in his career, and remained at the position until 2016 when he stepped down and was replaced by Syed Murad Ali Shah.

MQM Splits During this tenure, MQM ceased to exist as single party due to internal rifts in the wake of the party's leader, Altaf Hussain, giving a controversial speech in August, 2016. It split into MQM-Pakistan and MQM-London, the former in control of Farooq Sattar, while the latter managed by Hussain, who is in self-imposed exile in London since 1991.

Meanwhile, Mustafa Kamal's nascent Pak Sarzameen Party chipped away at MQM-P members. Kamal himself being a former MQM stalwart and erstwhile Mayor of Karachi, who formed the PSP on 23 March 2016.

Further still, in the lead up to 2018 Senate elections, the MQM-P faction saw another split - into Sattar's MQM-PIB and Aamir Khan's MQM-Bahadruabad. The reason for the split being grievances over the allotment of Senate tickets.

Rise of PTI in Karachi In Karachi, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf was seen as a better alternative for the city because of the increasing support and popularity of Imran Khan with the help of the establishment. In May 2018 PTI Chairman presented ten-point Karachi agenda which included holding direct mayoral elections and improving the education system, healthcare and hospitals, police, business and industry, power shortages, playgrounds and sporting facilities, environment, sewerage and the circular railway, this also attracted many people of Karachi to support PTI which never been materialized at any stage.

PTI won 21 Sindh Assembly Seats out of 43 and 14 National Assembly Seat from Karachi and emerged as the largest party in Karachi in terms of vote bank and seats. Nearly 0.7 Million Karachi citizens voted for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.

Results 98 30 21 14 4

Party Votes % Contested Seats +/-GeneralWomenMinoritiesTotal Pakistan People’s Party 38,53,904 38.44 128 7617 598 7 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf 14,51,132 14.47 97 23 5 2 3026 Muttahida Qaumi Movement - Pakistan 7,66,789 7.65 61 16 4 1 2130 Grand Democratic Alliance 15,14,775 15.11 83 11 2 1 14 Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan 4,52,109 4.51 67 2 10 3Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) 6,01,131 6.00 107 1 00 11 Pakistan Muslim League (N)2,45,4152.006800004Pak Sarzameen Party1,61,8601.61770000Independents & Others9.78,89710.211,5060000Postponed 100 1Total Valid Votes10,026,01296.08Invalid/Blank Votes4,08,5383.92Total Votes polled 1,04,34,5501002,1941302991680 Registered voters/Turnout 2,18,28,628 47.80 – Source: Note: The election was postponed in PS-87 Malir-I due to the death of a major candidate.

Division-wise results Division Total seats PPP PTI MQM-P GDA Others Larkana 17 14 1 0 2 0 Sukkur 15 11 1 0 3 0 Nawabshah 14 10 0 0 4 0 Mirpur Khas 11 10 0 0 1 0 Hyderabad 29 25 0 3 1 0 Karachi 44 6 21 13 0 3 Total 130 76 23 16 11 3

District-wise results Division District Total seats PPP PTI MQM-P GDA OthersLarkana Jacobabad 3 2 1 0 0 0Kashmore 3 3 0 0 0 0Shikarpur 3 2 0 0 1 0Larkana 4 3 0 0 1 0Qambar Shahdadkot 4 4 0 0 0 0Sukkur Ghotki 4 2 1 0 1 0 Sukkur 4 4 0 0 0 0 Khairpur 7 5 0 0 2 0Nawabshah Naushahro Feroz 4 3 0 0 1 0 Nawabshah 4 4 0 0 0 0 Sanghar 6 3 0 0 3 0Mirpur Khas Mirpur Khas 4 4 0 0 0 0 Umerkot 3 3 0 0 0 0 Tharparkar 4 3 0 0 1 0Hyderabad Matiari 2 2 0 0 0 0 Tando Allahyar 2 2 0 0 0 0 Hyderabad 6 3 0 3 0 0 Tando Muhammad Khan 2 2 0 0 0 0 Badin 5 4 0 0 1 0 Sujawal 2 2 0 0 0 0 Thatta 3 3 0 0 0 0 Jamshoro 3 3 0 0 0 0 Dadu 4 4 0 0 0 0Karachi Malir 5 4 0 0 0 0 Korangi 7 0 2 5 0 0 East 8 1 7 0 0 0 South 5 0 3 0 0 2 West 11 1 5 4 0 1 Central 8 0 4 4 0 0Total 130 76 23 16 11 3

Constituency-wise results

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