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The 2023 Karachi Mayoral election took place on 15 June 2023. Both Barrister Murtaza Wahab of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Hafiz Naeem Ur Rehman of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) ran for mayor. Salman Abdullah Murad and Saifuddin Awan were the PPP and JI's respective candidates for deputy mayor.
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.
The first local government elections in Karachi were held on 1 November 1884 and Karachi municipality was authorized to elect its president. [2] Jamshed Nusserwanji Mehta became the first elected mayor of Karachi in 1933 when Karachi municipal corporation was first created from Karachi municipal committee, he served as the president of the ...
There was a total of 99 seats reserved in four different categories for the union committees and all 308 members of the union committee select the mayor and deputy mayor of Karachi. The mayoral election was held on 24 August 2016. Waseem Akhtar was elected as the city's mayor by securing 196 out of 294 (305 total) votes in his favor.
List of current mayors of Pakistan according to the 2015 local government elections ... Karachi, Sindh: 24,300,625 MQM: ... Election of Chairmen of Local Councils ...
Abdul Sattar Afghani (Mayor) 166 5 1983-1987 Abdul Sattar Afghani (Mayor) 232 6 1988-1992 Dr. Farooq Sattar (Mayor) 77 7 2001-2005 Naimatullah Khan (Mayor) 255 8 2005-2010 Syed Mustafa Kamal (Nazim Karachi) 255 9 2016-2020 Waseem Akhter (Mayor) 308 10 2023-2027 Murtaza Wahab (Mayor) 367
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 City of Karachi Municipal Act was promulgated in 1933. Initially the Municipal Corporation consisted of the Mayor, the Deputy Mayor and 57 Councillors. [1] The system was handled by bureaucrats at all tiers of the government, there was no financial devolution.