KARACHI: The ruling alliance at the Centre managed to win the by-polls on the five out of the six Senate seats with the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) securing the majority of the seats.
The polling for the six Senate seats in the National, Sindh and Balochistan assemblies began at 9am and ended at 4pm.
These six seats had fallen vacant under Article 223 of the Constitution which prohibits lawmakers from holding dual membership.
The sub-section 4 of the article states: “Subject to clause (2) if a member of either House or of a Provincial Assembly becomes a candidate for a second sear which, in accordance with clause (1), he may not hold concurrently with his first seat, then his first seat shall become vacant as soon as he is elected to the second seat.”