KP’s Senate Election: Akram Durrani, Babar Salim Among 40 MPAs Cast Votes

Faizan Hashmi Published July 21, 2025 | 02:50 PM

PESHAWAR, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Jul, 2025) Polling for Senate Election 2025 is smoothly underway at Jirga Hall of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, where so far 40 MPAs have cast their votes till 1.30 pm.

Prominent among those MPAs who cast their votes includes former Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani and Speaker KP Assembly Babar Salim Swati. Three women and two minority MPAs also cast their votes.

The polling process is smoothly underway for 11 Senate seats from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under the arrangements of the Election Commission of Pakistan.

Polling began at 11:00 a.m. and will continue until 4:00 p.m. On the general seats from KP, four candidates from the government and three from the opposition are contesting. For the women's and technocrat seats, both the government and the opposition have fielded two candidates each.

PTI nominated Murad Saeed, Faisal Javed, Mirza Afridi, and Noorul Haq Qadri for general seats, while Rubina Naz and Azam Swati are also among the party’s candidates for women and technocrat seats, respectively.

From the opposition parties, the general seat candidates include Niaz Ahmed from PML-N, Talha Mahmood from PPP, and Ata-ul-Haq from JUI. Rubina Khalid (PPP) and Dilawar Khan (JUI).

KP Assembly has 92 members supporting the government and 53 supporting the opposition. A total of 19 votes are required to win a general seat, while 49 votes are needed for the women and technocrat seats.

The opposition needs four additional votes to win a third general seat. After the withdrawal of 4 out of 5 dissident members of PTI, Khurram Zeeshan remains in the race for a general seat.

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