2015 Karachi local government elections

2015 Karachi local government elections

Party MQM PPP PML(N) Percentage 64.5% 11.5% 9.2%

Mayor of Karachi before election Syed Mustafa Kamal Muttahida Qaumi Movement Elected Mayor Waseem Akhtar MQM-L

2015 Karachi local government elections were the second Karachi local government elections to elect a mayor and a local council.

Syed Mustafa Kamal, the outgoing mayor

The new mayor Waseem Akhtar

Voting

There were 209 union committees and 38 union councils in Karachi.[1][2] Both union councils and union committees are similar in that they are territorial units and composition;[3] the main difference between them is that the union committee represents an urban area whereas the union council represents the rural or suburban areas.[4] Each union council has a union council chairman and one member of the district council. The chairman of each district is selected by the chairmen of union councils and union committees.

Results

The following is the result of union committees in local government election held on 5 December 2015.[5]

Karachi Local Government Election for Union committees, 2015
#	Parties	KMC	Malir	East	West	Central	South	Korangi	Percentage
1	MQM-L	135	1	20	21	50	10	33	64.5%
2	PPP	24	5	4	4	1	10	–	11.5%
3	PMLN	19	4	1	9	–	4	1	9.2%
4	PTI	10	–	2	4	–	2	2	4.8%
5	JI	7	1	2	3	–	1	–	3.5%
6	JUI (F)	1	1	–	–	–	–	–	0.5%
7	ANP	1	–	–	1	–	–	–	0.5%
8	IND	1	–	–	1	–	–	–	0.5%
9	IND	11	1	2	3	–	4	1	5.2%
Total		209	13	31	46	51	31	37	100%
Polled votes		2,517,265							36%
Total votes		6,972,454							100%

There was a total of 99 seats reserved in four different categories for the union committees and all 308 members of the union committee select the mayor and deputy mayor of Karachi. The mayoral election was held on 24 August 2016. Waseem Akhtar was elected as the city's mayor by securing 196 out of 294 (305 total) votes in his favor.[6] The Pakistan Peoples Party candidate secured second position with 98 votes.

The Pakistan Peoples Party won the majority of the seats in union councils.[7] The following is the result of Karachi union councils in the local government election held on 5 December 2015.

Karachi Local Government Union council Election, 2015
#	Parties	Total	Malir	West	Percentage
1	MQM-L	0	–	–	0%
2	PPP	19	16	3	50%
3	PMLN	1	1	–	2.63%
4	PTI	0	–	–	0%
5	JI	0	–	–	0%
6	JUI (F)	1	1	–	2.63%
7	ANP	0	–	–	0%
8	IND	1	1	–	2.63%
9	IND	16	13	3	42.1%
Total		38	32	4	100%

The election for the chairman of the District Council was held on 24 August 2016. In the district council elections, Abdullah Murad Baloch from the Pakistan Peoples Party received 35 votes out of 56 (57 total) and was elected as the District Council chairman.[8]

References

1. "SHC rejects PTI petition to stop Waseem Akhtar from taking oath – The Express Tribune". 2016-08-30. Retrieved 2016-08-30.
2. Karachi mayor to run office from prison
3. A decade later, MQM on track to sweep LG polls in Karachi.
4. PPP wins 1,419 of reserved local bodies seats in Sindh.
5. "Voter Turnout in Local election 2015".
6. Karachi mayor to run office from prison
7. "Voter Turnout in Local election 2015".
8. "District Council goes to PPP". The Express Tribune. 2016-08-24. Retrieved 2020-12-27.