Unofficial results of by-elections held on 26 local government seats in 16 districts of Sindh showed the PPP emerging victorious on 24 out of them on Sunday. The remaining two seats were bagged by Jamaat-e-Islami and an independent candidate.

Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab won the by-election from UC 13 in Saddar Town while his junior Salman Abdullah Murad was victorious from Malir Gadap Town UC 7.

Voting continued from 8am to 5pm. Thousands of policemen were on duty to ensure the security of elections with a quick-response force on alert to deal with any untoward incident.

At least 42 polling stations were declared as highly sensitive and 72 as sensitive in Karachi. Elsewhere in Sindh, a total of 209 polling stations have been set up.

The former Sindh ruling party bagged seven out of nine seats in Karachi’s five districts.

Below are the unofficial results:

Karachi

UC 3 Maripur - Polling Station number 11, booth number 4

PPP candidate Saifullah Noor got 220 votes while PML-N leader Rana Shahid Iqbal got 26 votes

Saddar Town

UC 13 – Polling station number 13 PPP leader Murtaza Wahab got 233 votes against JUI’s Noorul Islam who bagged 171 votes

Kashmore

UC Misoowala – Polling station number 8

PPP candidate Muhammad Ramzan Mazari got 46 votes against Sindh United Party’s Allah Dino who bagged 11 votes

UC Misoowala – Polling station number 4 and 5

PPP’s Ramzan Mazri got 387 votes while SUP’s 26 votes

Sukkur

Municipal committee Nisar Siddiqui’s UC 10

PPP’s Arshad Mughal bagged 942 votes against JUI’s Amanullah who got 204 votes

Ghotki

UC Qadir Ward 2

JUI candidate Barkat Bhutto got 116 votes against PPP’s Bashir Bhutto who got 109 votes

Khairpur

Their Mirwah UC Hussain Bakhsh Dasti

PPP candidate Irshad Ali Lagari bagged 508 votes against independent candidate Mordin Ali Sher who got 401 votes

Ward number 9

PPP’s Nouman Raza got 921 votes against GDA’s Asif Ali who got 77 votes

Ward number 6

PPP’s Saddam Jhokio got 521 votes against GDA’s Asadullah Shaikh who got 206 votes

Polling station Dadanio

PPP candidate Ustad Arshad Ali Lagari got 597 votes against independent candidate Morind Shar who got 228 votes

Town committee Pakka Chaang

Polling station Haji Hussain Shah PPP candidate got 359 votes against GDA’s Haider Ali who got 200 votes

Nawabshah

Dor Town committee – ward number 8

PPP leader Wasim Afzal Rajput got 782 votes against TLP’s Faheem Qadri who got 79 votes

Tando Allahyar

Municipal committee’s ward number 1

PPP leader Muhammad Zafar got 2,281 votes against independent candidate Imtiaz Ali Khaskheli who got 28 votes

Sanghar

Municipal committee – Tando Adam ward number 15

PPP leader Ashrafuddin Ansari got 828 votes against GDA’s Ghulam Mustafa who got 76 votes

Kemari

Maripur UC 3

PPP winner

Malir

Gadap Town UC 1 Ward number 4

PPP winner

UC 2

Independent candidate Muhammad Umar winner

The PPP was victorious in four seats in Khairpur

The PPP won from Bhan Saeedabad Town Committee ward number 2, Shikarpur UC 7 Ward 3, ward number one of municipal committee Tando Allahyar , ward number 2 of Ghotki UC Qadirpur.

South district

UC 5 Ward 3 Nazimabad

Jamaat-e-Islami winner

Jacobabad UC 31 Deen Pur

PPP’s Ali Muhammad Lashari was declared winner unopposed

Larkana UC 1

PPP’s Khadim Hussain winner

The PPP candidates won unopposed in all four seats of Naushahro Feroze

Karachi

Candidates contesting for seats in UC 3, two vice chairmen, and four wards. It was expected that as many as 206,686 would exercise their right to vote.

Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab contested from the Saddar Town seat while Deputy Mayor Salman Abdullah Murad contested from Gadap Town UC.

In UC 13 Sadar Town, three candidates contesting for the chairman’s seat: PPP’s Murtaza Wahab, Jamaat-e-Islami’s Noorul Salam and TLP’s Sikander Agar.

Moreover, PPP’s Saifullah, Mohammad Zahid of PTI, and PML-N leader Shahid Iqbal competed for the chairman seat from Kemari district UC 3 Maripur.

In Malir district UC 7 Gadap, PPP leader Salman Abdhullah Murad, PTI’s Abdul Hafeez Jokhio, JI’s Mohammad Ayub Khaskheli, and TLP’s Saalim Ahmed contested for the chairman’s seat.

PPP’s Saleem Memon, PTI leader Mohibullah, and Maqbool Ahmed of TLP contested for the seat of vice chairman from Malir district UC 7 Gadap.

Four candidates were up for the vice chairman seat in the South district UC 12 Sadar Town. They are PPP’s Hamid Hussain, PTI leader Muhammad Tahir, PML-N’s Gulwaiz Khan, and Syed Obaidullah Shah of Jamaat-e-Islami.

Wahab was elected unopposed from Union Council 8 Ibrahim Hydari. Polling for the by-elections was held in 209 polling stations in Sindh.

Sukkur and Ghotki

A total of 12 seats had been left vacant in Sukkur. However, candidates six of these seats were elected unopposed while the remaining six held polls on Sunday.

In two vacant seats in Ghotki, one had been filled by an unopposed candidate while votes will be cast on the other seat (UC-I).

Khairpur and Jacobabad

A total of four general counselor seats including two municipal committees were up for grabs on Sunday. In Jacobabad, the lone vacant seat in UC-31 was won unopposed by a PPP candidate.

Larkana

A PPP candidate was elected unopposed in district council Larkana after the independent candidate contesting against him withdrew his papers. The other seat in Tando Allahyar’s municipal committee elections were being contested between a PPP and an independent candidate.

Benazirabad

Out of three vacant seats in Benazirabad, two were already won unopposed by PPP candidates. Polls were held on a general seat in the town committee.

Nowshero Feroze

Candidates from the PPP won all four vacant seats in the district unopposed.