Result
| Candidate | Main supporting party | Senate | National Assembly | Punjab* | Sindh* | Balochistan | NWFP* | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asif Ali Zardari | Pakistan Peoples Party | 281 | 22 | 63 | 59 | 56 | 481 | |
| Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | 111 | 35 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 153 | |
| Mushahid Hussain Syed | Pakistan Muslim League (Q) | 34 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 44 | |
| * Pro-rated to 65 votes | ||||||||
| Source: Dawn | ||||||||
Asif Ali Zardari was elected President of Pakistan, as Chief election commissioner Qazi Mohammad Farooq announced that "Asif Ali Zardari secured 281 votes out of the 426 valid votes polled in the parliament," In Sindh, Zardari had 62 of the 65 electoral votes while his 2 main opponents, got zero vote; in North West Frontier Province Zardari got 56 votes against 5 by Siddiqui and one by Hussain; in Baluchistan, 59 votes while Siddiqui and Hussain got 2 each. BBC reported that Zardari "won 459 votes, far more than the 352 votes that would have guaranteed him victory." New York Times said that Zardari would be sworn in "as soon as Saturday night or as late as Monday or Tuesday, diplomats and officials said."
The new president, who obtains the largest number of votes, will serve for 5 years as Pakistan's 11th since 1956, when the country became a republic, excluding acting presidents. Voting was in progress at the Parliament House, while the Senate members finished casting their votes, amid the death of 12 people, after a suicide car bomber blasted a security checkpoint on the outskirts of Peshawar.
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