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
Results by administrative division Below are the results of the election, by administrative division.
+PunjabSeat TypeWinnersGeneralJamal 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)TechnocratSyed Muhammad Zafar (PML-Q)Haroon Akhtar Khan (PML-Q)WomenGulshan Saeed (PML-Q)Nilofar Bakhtiar (PML-Q) +SindhSeat TypeWinnersGeneralRaza 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)TechnocratJavaid Laghari (PPP)Syed Abdul Khaliq Pirzada (MQM)WomenRatna Bhagwandas Chawla (PPP)Semeen Yusuf Siddiqui (PML-Q) +Khyber PakhtunkhwaSeat TypeWinnersGeneralKhurshid 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)TechnocratAzam Swati (MMA)Ilyas Ahmed Bilour (ANP)WomenAfia Zia (MMA)Fauzia Fakhar-uz-Zaman Khan (PML-Q) +BalochistanSeat TypeWinnersGeneralJan 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)TechnocratSaeed Ahmed Hashmi (PML-Q)Rehmatullah Kakar (MMA)WomenRehana Yahya Baloch (PML-Q)Sabina Rauf (MMA) +FATASeat TypeWinnersGeneralAbdul Raziq (Independent)Abdur Rashid (Independent)Muhammad Saleh Shah (Independent)Hafiz Rasheed Ahmed (Independent) +ICTSeat TypeWinnersGeneralTariq Azim Khan (PML-Q)TechnocratWasim 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.
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