F.P. Report
PESHAWAR): The Senate Election in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly concluded peacefully, amidst tight security in and around Provincial Assembly Building with a total of 122 voters exercised their right in the Senate Election-2018 here on Saturday.
The election started at 9.00 a.m the morning and without any break it concluded at 4.00 p.m.
MPA Zia Ullah Afridi had polled the first vote, followed by Lutuf-ur-Rehman while the name of Baldev Kumar is not in the voter list and another MPA from Swat has been disqualified by the court recently so out of 124 votes 122 votes were polled. The last vote was polled by Muhammad Ali of Jamaat-e-Islami.
As per the Election Commission of Pakistan a total of 24 candidatures are in run for the 11 vacant seats. The successful 11 candidatures will represent KP in the Upper House of the Parliament. In KP there are 12 candidatures are contesting for 7 general seats, five are in run for the two seats for Technocrats and seven are contesting for two female seats.
Over all 132 candidates are contesting for 52 senate seats in the Upper House of the Parliament with 11 seats each from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, 12 seats each of Punjab and Sindh, 4 seats from FATA and 2 seats from Islamabad.
