The senior leadership of the PPP maintains that it has many electables in Punjab and will bag at least 10 to 16 seats from the province in the 2018 elections. This was the outcome of an anecdotal survey of many PPP leaders who maintained that the general perception that PPP has been wiped out in Punjab is simply false. The leadership gave the following names of electables within their ranks: from south of Punjab former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Makhdoom Ahmed Mahmood, Natasha Daultana, Shaukat Basra, Abdul Qadir Shaheen, and from central Punjab, Qamar Zaman Kaira and Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo.
PPP Punjab President and senior leader Qamar Zaman Kaira acknowledged while talking to Business Recorder that his party was weak in Punjab in the general elections 2013, "but we still believe that PPP has deep roots in Punjab and we the party will be revived in the province through determination and good strategy," he added.
Kaira said that PPP would announce its manifesto for the next general elections and Chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, would visit various districts and hold conventions in different areas of Punjab in the coming weeks. Answering a question, he said it is too early to say "how many seats the party will win from Punjab, or whether we will form alliances or do seat adjustments. Several decisions would be taken when the election's date is announced".
Kaira claims "PML-N has been exposed, its leader disqualified, and the public is also coming to know the problems with PTI and its leader Imran Khan." Senior leader and PPP's Secretary General Farhatullah Babar told Business Recorder that his party would win general election 2018. He said that "we would not only win elections in Sindh but also in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan," and added that "the experience is that no single political party has formed a government in the center".
Rasool Bux, a political analyst said while talking to Business Recorder that the PPP has lost public support, especially in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He added that in Punjab, most of those affiliated with the PPP would not contest on the party ticket but independently as they would be unable to win if they contest on the party's ticket.
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