PPP gets over 100% increase in NA seats from metropolis
Pakistan Peoples Party has won seven National Assembly seats from Karachi beating its record of three from the port city in the 2018 general elections.
In addition to Karachi, the PPPP secured 37 National Assembly seats from other districts of Sindh taking its count to 44 from the province.
Similarly, Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) won 18 National Assembly seats including 16 from Karachi and two from Hyderabad. In this way, no other party except People's Party and MQM has been successful in 62 constituencies of the National Assembly in Sindh. The Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) will remain out of parliamentary politics.
According to the available results, PPP set a record by winning seven seats in the National Assembly for the first time in Karachi whereas in 2018 it had secured three National Assembly seats from the metropolis.
Similarly, in the 2024 general elections, MQM-P secured victory on 15 National Assembly seats from Karachi and two from Hyderabad while it had won four National Assembly seats from Karachi in the 2018.
The Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) had won two National Assembly seats from Sindh in the 2018 elections, but GDA got none in 2024.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 11th 2024.