Pakistani General Election 2008

[minionofmidas]

Awami National Party 3 seats

Seriously?

That calls for a celebration!

[minionofmidas]

PPP 87
PML (N) 66
PML (Q) 38
MQM 19
ANP 10
others 38
not yet declared 28
polling postponed 4

[minionofmidas]

ANP 10

Haha, wow

...and strongest party (but no majority) in the NWFP Provincial Assembly!

[minionofmidas]

http://blog.dawn.com/?p=32#comments

[minionofmidas]

It's entertaining to look at constituency results. For example, in Peshawar the MMA had won all four seats last time around, with the PPP runners-up in two and the ANP in the other two. Now the PPP won the seats where it came second last time (ANP runners-up) and the ANP won the two where it came second last time (PPP and PML-Q respective runners-up.)

[minionofmidas]

Incompetency in running the NWFP plays a role, I think. Also, people tried voting for a party that wasn't a sick leader cult without political substance last time around and the MMA was the only such option.
I suppose there must be other reasons as well. Tactical voting is probably widespread too, with people abandoning MMA because it stood no chance of winning.

[minionofmidas]

Can someone with a better knowledge of Pakistan explain what this means for Musharraf?  Various news outlets are suggesting that it would require 2/3rds of the Parliament to impeach Musharraf, but this article:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3399019.ece

seems to hint that a simple majority of the Parliament could reinstate the ousted Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, and that "if Mr Chaudhry is re-instated, he is certain to invalidate the President’s re-election".  So is Musharraf toast?

It's not yet clear. It might be.