The Electoral College for Senate seats of provinces are the respective Provincial Assembly members and their polling is held at respective Provincial Assemblies under proportional representation on the basis of single transferable vote.

1. Senate Election
Procedure
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2. Senate Election Procedure
 The Electoral College for Senate seats of
provinces are the respective Provincial
Assembly members and their polling is held at
respective Provincial Assemblies under
proportional representation on the basis of
single transferable vote.
 For FATA and Federal Capital seats, Electoral
College is the National Assembly members
from FATA and whole National Assembly
members respectively; therefore, their
election is held at National Assembly building.
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 The voters (MNAs and MPAs) cast their votes
separately for each category (General,
Women, Technocrats and Minorities, as the
case may be) on separate ballot papers
having different colors, except for FATA where
there in only one category i.e., General seats.
 The voters cast their vote by mentioning the
priority in serial numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5…..) for
each candidate in every category as
Proportional Representation by Single
Transferable Vote means taking into account
voters second and subsequent choices
besides the first one.
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4.  The number of votes required for election
as Senator in each category varies for
each province, FATA and Federal Capital
as the strength of Electoral College varies
in each case. e.g., in case of FATA, 04
Senators are to be elected by an
Electoral College of 12 MNAs, meaning
thereby that at least 03 votes are required
by a candidate to be elected as Senator
from FATA.
 Likewise, in case of Federal Capital, for
each of the General and Woman seat,
172 votes are required in the 342 member
National Assembly.
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5.  the counting becomes complex when some
candidate(s) get more than the minimum
votes required for election while others get
less and in such a case 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. voting
priority is also counted.
 In order to determine the overall impact of all
preferences of the voter to a candidate, the
total points obtained by a candidate are
calculated and a candidate passing a
specific threshold of points is declared as
elected. If still the seats remain vacant, the
votes of the candidates which are surplus
from the threshold are transferred to the
second priority candidates and those crossing
the required threshold after this exercise are
also declared elected.
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6.  Similarly, if still there are some vacant seats,
then surplus votes of the winning candidates
are transferred to third priority candidates to
fill the vacant seats.
 This process of transferring surplus votes of the
winning candidates goes on till all vacant
seats in a category are filled.
 The system of Proportional Representation by
means of Single Transferable vote takes into
account voter’s first as well as second and
subsequent preferences in the order of
preference, indicating as to which candidate
his vote should go if the candidate of his first
choice is already elected by the votes of
other voters or if his first choice secured too
few votes to continue the contest.
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7.  In other words, the surplus votes are
redistributed amongst other candidates in
accordance with preferences expressed
by voters. In this way, the candidates
finally elected represent as accurately as
possible the choice of the electors.
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8.  For more information related Senate
Election and Senate election result, do
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