Presidential election shook the pro-Musharraf party, Pakistan Muslim League (Q) and it fell like a dry leaf despite tall claims, as its parliamentarians revolted against it. The result of presidential election was certainly against expectations of PML-Q leadership and its presidential candidate, Mushahid Hussain Sayed, and both seemed to have been deserted by party parliamentarians.
Mushahid secured only 43 votes from the electoral college of 700. The outcome of presidential election has exposed differences in the party as majority of its parliamentarians preferred to cast vote in favour of Asif Zardari in the Centre and for Saeed-uz-Zaman in Punjab.
In the Senate and the National Assembly, total votes of Pakistan Muslim League (Q) were 92--38 in Senate and 54 in National Assembly-but according to unofficial result its parliamentarians polled only 36 electoral votes for Mushahid in both houses while 58 polled against him. The result was not different in Punjab where Mushahid got only six electoral votes.
Had all the party members polled votes for him he would have secured 15 electoral votes in Punjab PA but only 36 members of total 84 members provincial assembly voted for him while rest of the votes were polled against him. Saeed-uz-Zaman got 153 electoral votes after Asif Zardari who swept the election with 479 electoral votes.
Mushahid failed to secure even a single vote in Sindh despite having nine members in the Assembly that could have secured at least 3 votes for him if they had polled for him. Similarly, the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) member in Balochistan Assembly did not poll a vote for him. As a result he could only manage 2 electoral votes from 19 and only 3 in the NWFP Assembly.
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