Re: How Pakistan Elects a President.
Total votes:
Senate = 100 voters (each vote counts as 1)
NA = 342 voters (each vote counts as 1)
Balochistan = 65 voters (each vote counts as 1)
Sindh = 168 voters ( 2.58 votes count as 1)
(Total 65 votes)
NWFP = 124 voters ( 1.9 votes count as 1)
(Total 65 votes)
Punjab = 371 voters (5.7 votes count as 1)
(Total 65 votes)
**Total effective votes = 702 votes
Winner is the one that would get highest number of votes amongst contestants, though to win election outright, candidate needs over 351 effective votes** (over 50 percent, though requirement is only to get more votes than closest opponent).
Balochistan
33 votes cast out of 65
Musharraf 33 (all vote cast)
** [Effective 33 votes to President]**
NWFP
34 votes cast out of 124
Musharraf 31
Vegi = 1
Invalid = 2
** [Effective 16.25 votes to President]**
**
Punjab**
Vote cast 257 out of 371
Musharraf 253
Vegi 3
Invalid 1 (voter voted Musharraf, but instead of ticking the box he wrote 'good' there ... so vote got invalidated)
** [Effective 44.33 votes to President]**
**Sindh
**Vote cast 104 out of 168
Musharraf 102
Vegi 2
** [Effective 39.47 votes cast (to President)]**
NA and Senate:
Total vote cast by Senate and NA = 257
**
Valid votes 254
Musharraf 252
Vegi 2
Invalid 3**
Total effective votes to Musharraf 345.58 + 39.47 (sindh votes) = 385.05 votes*. President needed over 351 votes to get elected by over 50 percent votes ... though he only needed 3 votes to get elected as his closest opponent 'Vegi' got less than 3 effective votes *:)
Amin Fahim realised that wind is blowing against him, so he boycotted the election ... It is landslide victory for President Musharraf :)