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Union Councils of Karachi are local governments in Karachi. Union Council is the primary governmental institution in Pakistan. Headed by a Union Nazim, each union council has 10 elected members or councilors. In addition to four male and two female members elected directly, there are two male and two female representatives of the labor, a ...
Each union council has a union council chairman and one member of the district council. The chairman of each district is selected by the chairmen of union councils and union committees. The following is the result of union committees in local government election held on 5 December 2015. [11] [12]
There were 209 union committees and 38 union councils in Karachi. [1] [2] Both union councils and union committees are similar in that they are territorial units and composition; [3] the main difference between them is that the union committee represents an urban area whereas the union council represents the rural or suburban areas. [4]
The Secretary is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the council and for implementing the decisions of the council. The Union Council also has a number of committees, which are responsible for specific areas such as finance, development, and social welfare. The Union Council is the lowest tier of local government in Pakistan, and ...
The municipal elections were held in Karachi on December 5, 2015 and the most seats in the city were won by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). [11] The MQM won 138, PPP won 25, Jamaat-e-Islami and PTI alliance won only 17 union council seats. Waseem Akhtar was nominated as the next Mayor of Karachi on December 15, 2015. [12]
The 2023 Karachi local government elections were held in Karachi, Pakistan on 15 January 2023 to elect members of local councils. These members would then elect the Mayor of Karachi (2023-2027). These elections were the 3rd Karachi local government elections.
In 2015, the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation consisted of 305 members, including 209 general members and chairmen of union committees, and 96 reserved members. [3] The numbers of KMC council members since 1979 is as follows: [4]
After a gap of six years, the Government of Karachi was finally restored by the Supreme Court of Pakistan when the Court in 2014 ordered that provinces conduct new local government elections, which were held on 5 December 2015 resulting with a new Karachi Government being formed on 30 August 2016. The current Karachi Local Government System ...