NA-240 Karachi South-II

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NA-240 Karachi South-II
Constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan

Region	Lyari Town (partly), Garden Town and Aram Bagh Town (partly) of Karachi South in Karachi
Electorate	385,971 ^[1]
Current constituency
Created	2002
Party	MQM-P
Member(s)	Arshad Abdullah Vohra

NA-240 Karachi South-II (این اے-240، کراچی جنوبی -2) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. It mainly comprised the historic Saddar Town neighborhood of Karachi. After the 2018 delimitations, its areas have been divided among the constituencies of NA-246 (Karachi South-I) and NA-247 (Karachi South-II), with NA-247 getting the larger piece. The Garden Subdivision was equally distributed between the two. After 2023 Delimitations This constituency revived.^[2]

Election of 2002

General elections were held on 10 October 2002. Aamir Liaquat Hussain of Muttahida Qaumi Movement won by 30,458 votes.^[3]

General election 2002: NA-249 Karachi South-XI
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	MQM	Aamir Liaquat Hussain	30,458	35.55
	MMA	Abdul Majeed Noorani	22,973	26.81
	PPP	Abdul Habib Memon	22,708	26.50
	PST	Muhammad Iftikhar Ahmed Bhatti	7,500	8.75
	Others	Others (eight candidates)	3,578	2.39
Turnout			86,581	34.55
Total valid votes			85,681	98.96
Rejected ballots			900	1.04
Majority			7,485	8.74
Registered electors			250,626

Election of 2008

General elections were held on 18 February 2008. Farooq Sattar of Muttahida Qaumi Movement won by 103,846 votes.^[4]

General election 2008: NA-249 Karachi South-XI
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	MQM	Farooq Sattar	103,846	57.45
	PPP	Abdul Habib Memon	73,324	40.57
	Others	Others (three candidates)	3,578	1.98
Turnout			182,457	47.01
Total valid votes			180,748	99.06
Rejected ballots			1,709	0.94
Majority			30,522	16.88
Registered electors			388,099
	MQM hold

Election of 2013

General elections were held on 11 May 2013. Farooq Sattar of Muttahida Qaumi Movement – London won by 109,952 votes and became the member of National Assembly.^[5]

General election 2013: NA-249 Karachi South-XI
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	MQM	Farooq Sattar	109,952	59.29
	PPP	Abdul Aziz Memon	64,974	35.03
	JUI (F)	Muhammad Owais Siddiqui	7,647	4.12
	Others	Others (seven candidates)	2,884	1.56
Turnout			188,091	61.76
Total valid votes			185,457	98.60
Rejected ballots			2,634	1.40
Majority			44,978	24.26
Registered electors			304,528
	MQM hold

Election 2024

General elections were held on 8 February 2024 and Arshad Abdullah Vohra of Muttahida Qaumi Movement - Pakistan won by 30,573 votes and became a member of the National Assembly.

General election 2024: NA-240 Karachi South-II
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	MQM-P	Arshad Abdullah Vohra	30,573	26.59
	Independent	Ramzan Ghanchi^[a]	27,318	23.76
	TLP	Syed Zaman Ali Jafri	17,091	14.86
	PPP	Saleem Mandviwalla	17,025	14.81
	JI	Syed Abdul Rasheed	16,128	14.03
	Others	Others (fourteen candidates)	6,847	5.95
Turnout			116,654	30.22
Total valid votes			114,982	98.57
Rejected ballots			1,672	1.43
Majority			3,255	2.83
Registered electors			385,971
	MQM-P win (new seat)