The Pakistan Peoples Party has managed to keep both its provincial assembly seats in the by-polls held a day earlier in Karachi and Sanghar, according to the unofficial and unverified results announced by the Election Commission of Pakistan.
Polling took place on Tuesday in the by-elections for vacant Sindh and Balochistan Assembly seats — PS-43 Sanghar III, PS-88 Malir II and PB-20 Pishin III.
All three seats fell vacant last year after the lawmakers elected from the seats passed away due to the coronavirus.
According to unofficial results announced by the Election Commission, PPP’s Yousaf Baloch from PS-88 Malir and PPP’s Jam Shabeer Ali from PS-43 Sanghar won the by-polls.
The PDM’s candidate Syed Azizullah Agha emerged victorious in PB-20 Pishin.
Votes continued to be counted till after midnight Tuesday.
According to one group of sources, PPP’s Baloch secured 22,000 votes, with PTI’s Syed Kashif Ali tailing behind with 5,000 votes, TLP with 4,000 and MQM managing nearly 2,000 votes, The News reported.
PPP’s Ali won the poll in Sanghar by a wide margin against GDA’s candidate Mushtaq Junejo. According to the unofficial ECP results, Ali secured 48,032 votes against PTI ally GDA’s Mushtaq Junejo, who managed only 6,922 votes.
Junejo has accused his rival of having the Sindh government’s support and utilising state machinery to win the the by-election. Ali dismissed the charges of rigging and said voters had once again reposed their confidence in the PPP.
