Saud Majeed

{{Short description|Pakistani politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | office = Member of the Senate of Pakistan | name = Saud Majeed | term_start = May 2015 | term_end = March 2021 | office1 = Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | term_start1 = 2008 | term_end1 = 2013 | constituency1 = NA-187 (Bahawalpur-V) | party = PMLN }}

'''Chaudhry Saud Majeed''' (Punjabi, {{langx|ur|{{Nastaliq|سعود مجید}}}}) is a Pakistani politician who remained a member of Senate of Pakistan from 2015 to 2021. Previously he had been a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013. He is the youngest son of late Chaudhry Abdul Majeed Arain (first mayor of Bahawalpur and former Member of Provincial Assembly). He attended the prestigious Sadiq Public School in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, and obtained his Master’s of Business Administration degree from the University of Cardiff in Wales, UK.

==Political career== He ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (J) from Constituency PP-276 (Bahawalpur-X) in the 2002 Pakistani general election but was unsuccessful. He received 11,136 votes and lost the seat to Muhammad Afzal, a candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).<ref>{{cite web|title=2002 election result|url=https://ecp.gov.pk/Documents/General%20Election%202002/National.pdf|publisher=ECP|accessdate=22 January 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122090015/https://ecp.gov.pk/Documents/General%20Election%202002/National.pdf|archivedate=22 January 2018}}</ref>

He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate for Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) for the Constituency NA-187 (Bahawalpur-V) in the 2008 Pakistani general election.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Correspondent|first1=The Newspaper's|title=NA 187: Nominations of Cheema, Majeed accepted|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/800770|accessdate=28 January 2018|work=DAWN.COM|date=7 April 2013|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810040950/https://www.dawn.com/news/800770|archivedate=10 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=How towering figures tumbled|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/290579|accessdate=28 January 2018|work=DAWN.COM|date=23 February 2008|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170409021222/https://www.dawn.com/news/290579|archivedate=9 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=As Pakistan goes to polls: Take a peek at some major NA constituencies|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/813877|accessdate=28 January 2018|work=DAWN.COM|date=10 May 2013|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305114952/https://www.dawn.com/news/813877|archivedate=5 March 2017}}</ref> He received 77,860 votes and defeated Pervaiz Elahi. In the same election, he ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from Constituency PP-276 (Bahawalpur-X) as a candidate of PML-N but was unsuccessful. He received 29,040 votes and lost the seat to Muhammad Afzal, a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q).<ref>{{cite web|title=2008 election result|url=https://ecp.gov.pk/Documents/General%20Elections%202008/Report,%20General%20Election%202008,%20Vol-II.pdf|publisher=ECP|accessdate=25 May 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105060230/https://ecp.gov.pk/Documents/General%20Elections%202008/Report,%20General%20Election%202008,%20Vol-II.pdf|archivedate=5 January 2018}}</ref>

He ran for the seat of the National Assembly as a candidate for PML-N for NA-187 (Bahawalpur-V) in the 2013 Pakistani general election but was unsuccessful. He received 88,872 votes and lost the seat to Tariq Bashir Cheema. In the same election, he ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from Constituency PP-276 (Bahawalpur-X) as an independent candidate but was unsuccessful. He received 166 votes and lost the seat to Muhammad Afzal, a candidate of PML-Q.<ref>{{cite web|title=2013 election result|url=https://ecp.gov.pk/Documents/General%20Elections%202013%20report/Election%20Report%202013%20Volume-II.pdf|publisher=ECP|accessdate=3 February 2018|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201140612/https://ecp.gov.pk/Documents/General%20Elections%202013%20report/Election%20Report%202013%20Volume-II.pdf|archivedate=1 February 2018}}</ref>

He was elected to the Senate of Pakistan as candidate of PML-N in May 2015.<ref>{{cite news|title=N candidate elected senator unopposed|url=https://nation.com.pk/21-May-2015/n-candidate-elected-senator-unopposed|accessdate=28 January 2018|work=The Nation|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128154659/https://nation.com.pk/21-May-2015/n-candidate-elected-senator-unopposed|archivedate=28 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=PML-N's Saud Majeed elected as senator, unopposed {{!}} Pakistan {{!}} Dunya News|url=http://dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan/280241-PMLN%E2%80%99s-Saud-Majeed-elected-as-senator-unoppose|accessdate=28 January 2018|work=dunyanews.tv|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128154700/http://dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan/280241-PMLN%E2%80%99s-Saud-Majeed-elected-as-senator-unoppose|archivedate=28 January 2018}}</ref>

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