# Electoral college elects Asif Ali Zardari president with 411 votes against Achakzai’s 181 Date: 2024 ## The fact On 9 March 2024 Pakistan’s electoral college elected [Asif Ali Zardari](/people/asif-ali-zardari) president with 411 votes against Mehmood Khan Achakzai’s 181. The Election Commission of Pakistan declared the result. He took oath on 10 March. The stolen-majority claim stays allegation. The 10 March oath is neighbouring next-day gazette. ## Context [Shehbaz Sharif](/people/shehbaz-sharif) had been elected prime minister on 3–4 March. Coalition with PML-N is neighbouring. [Bilawal Bhutto Zardari](/people/bilawal-bhutto-zardari) is unresolved. [Imran Khan](/people/imran-khan) is unresolved and is not converted into a completed stolen-election judgment. 8 February poll; 3–4 March PM election; 9 March presidential vote; 10 March oath. Store the 9 March electoral-college vote as the instrument. Keep Electoral college elects Asif Ali Zardari president with 411 votes against Achakzai’s 181 on 2024-03-09 separate from neighbouring 5 August 2003 Geneva sentence, 9 March 2024 electoral-college vote, 10 March 2024 oath, and 21 October 2024 26th Amendment assent. Pakistan’s president is elected by an electoral college and assents to Acts, including constitutional amendments. He does not write [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) arithmetic for the premiership, GHQ operational orders, IMF Executive Board minutes, or a completed judgment that 2024 was stolen. A 2003 Geneva sentence later set aside is not converted here into a unique remaining theft coefficient. February 2024 polling-day shutdown was under a caretaker and is not stored as his presidential Contribution. ## Evidence and sources Election Commission of Pakistan carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is patronage presidency and electoral integrity: a completed dynastic return after a disputed poll, allegation not judgment. ## What is established and what is not Established: A 9 March 2024 electoral-college election as president with 411 votes, independently recorded. Not established: That 2024 was a completed stolen election as a court finding, or that he ordered the 8 February shutdown as president. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. He accepted. Shehbaz’s premiership is neighbouring live. PTI’s allegation remains allegation.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Electoral college elects Asif Ali Zardari president with 411 votes against Achakzai’s 181, not a later speech about Electoral college elects Asif Ali Zardari president with 411 votes against Achakzai’s 181. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Electoral college elects Asif Ali Zardari president with 411 votes against Achakzai’s 181 on 2024-03-09 is not a licence to treat every later Election Commission of Pakistan communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Electoral college elects Asif Ali Zardari president with 411 votes against Achakzai’s 181 into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The electoral college elected him. He accepted. Shehbaz’s premiership is neighbouring live. PTI’s allegation remains allegation. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Asif Ali Zardari: https://factrail.ai/people/asif-ali-zardari ## Drivers - Zardari patronage presidency (Pakistan): https://factrail.ai/drivers/zardari-patronage-presidency - Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistans-former-president-zardari-wins-another-term-2024-03-09/ - https://www.ecp.gov.pk/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-zardari-president-2024