Eleven of the 23 independent candidates backed by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) have been elected to the seats in Punjab.
Chauhdry Sarwar of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) bagged the 12th seat in Punjab.
In Sindh, Pakistan People's Party (PPP) grabbed 10 out of the 12 seats. MQM-P and PML-F bagged the remaining two seats.
Independent candidates Hidayatullah, Hilalur Rehman, Shamim Afridi and Mirza Afridi have been elected as senators in Fata.
Punjab
PML-N: 11 seats; PTI: 1 seat
According to initial reports from South Punjab News, 11 candidates backed by the ruling PML-N were elected on the 12 seats from Punjab. The competition for the 12th seat was intense, with the PTI and PML-N going down to the wire for the prized seat. PTI's Chaudhry Sarwar eventually emerged victorious in the vote.
Candidates backed by the PML-N won six of the seven general seats from the Punjab Assembly, with PTI taking the remaining seat. Meanwhile, the PML-N swept the technocrat, women and minorities seats from the province, South Punjab News reported. Successful candidates(1) Musaddaq Malik (2)Shaheen Khalid Butt,(3)Rana Mehmood -ul-Hassan,(4) Rana Maqbool Ahmed,(5)Haroon Khan,(6)Asif Kirmani(7)Ishaq Dar(8) Hafiz Abdul Karim(9) Saadia Abbasi(10) Nuzhat Sadiq (11) Kamran Michal (12)Ch.Muhammad Sarwar
Sindh
PPP: 10 seats; MQM: 1 seat; PML-F: 1 seat
From Sindh, MQM's Barrister Farogh Naseem and PML-Functional's Muzaffar Hussain Shah were elected on general seats, South Punjab News reported.
PPP led the chart in Sindh, however, with outgoing Senate chairman Raza Rabbani, Mola Bakhsh Chandio, Mohammad Ali Jamot, Imamuddin Shauqeen and Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar being elected to general seats.
Sikandar Mendhro and Rukhsana Zuberi, also from the PPP, were elected on technocrat seats.
Krishna Kohli and Quratulain Marri were elected on women's seats. Krishna Kohli's election is particularly historic: she will be the first Dalit woman to sit in Pakistan's Senate.
Anwar Laal Deen was elected on the minorities seat.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
PTI: 5 seats; PML-N: 2 seats; PPP: 2 seats; JUI-F: 1 seat; JI: 1 seat
PTI managed to bag five seats on its home turf, with Ayub Afridi, Faisal Javed and Fida Muhammad successfully bagging a general seat each. The PPP's Bahramand Tangi, JUI-F's Talha Mahmood, a JI candidate and the PML-N's Sabir Shah also won a general seat each.
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) candidate Mehar Taj Roghani was elected to one of the women's seats from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, while the other was taken by PPP's Rubina Khalid.
PTI's Azam Swati and PML-N's Dilawar Khan were elected to the two technocrat seats for the province.
PTI-backed cleric Maulana Samiul Haq of Darul Uloom Haqqani notoriety could bag only three votes.
Islamabad
PML-N: 2 seats
PML-N backed candidates Mushahid Hussain Syed and Asad Junejo won both seats for Islamabad.
Fata
Independents: 4 seats
Meanwhile, four independent candidates were elected to the Senate from Fata after bagging seven votes apiece. These were: Shammim Afridi, Mirza Muhammad Afridi, Hidayat Ullah and Hillal ur Rehman.
Balochistan
Independents: 6 seats; NP: 2 seats; PkMAP: 2 seats; JUI-F: 1 seat
In Balochistan, the PML-N suffered a major blow and could not bag a single seat during the elections held for the upper house.
An alliance from the incumbent government comprising dissidents from the PML-N and PML-Q managed to get six senators elected from Balochistan. These included Anwarul Haq Kakar, Ahmed Khan, Kuhda Babar and Sadiq Sanjrani on general seats; Sana Jamali on the women's seat and Naseebullah Bazai on the technocrats seat.
Former ruling coalition partners PkMAP and the National Party got two seats each. According to results, Sardar Shafiq Tareen and Abida Omar of PkMAP, and Tahir Bizenjo and Akram Dashti of NP were elected to the Upper House.
Maulana Faiz Muhammad of the JUI-F was also elected on a general seat for the upper house.
Run for the Senate
A total of 133 candidates had vied for Senate seats in the elections, which started at 9am and continued smoothly till closing time.
The polling was held in the national and four provincial assemblies of the country.
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