Historical context: this article concerns Pakistan’s Punjab chief minister dispute in July 2022.

Supreme Court decision

Pakistan’s Supreme Court set aside Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Dost Mazari’s ruling concerning 10 PML-Q votes in the July 22 chief minister election.

The court declared Chaudhry Parvez Elahi duly elected chief minister with 186 votes, compared with 179 for Hamza Shehbaz.

Change of chief minister

The judgment directed that Elahi be sworn in as chief minister. The ruling ended Hamza Shehbaz’s continuation in the office following the disputed vote.

The case arose from competing interpretations of how the PML-Q members’ votes should be treated. This article records the court outcome rather than adopting political claims made by either side during the dispute.