These elections are not going that bad. A few violence but less than feared.
More importantly it seems that opposition parties are content with the results and won't contest them (of course they won).
Interrestingly, Musharraff's party still got 38%, more than half of each opposition party taken separately.
This despite that Musharraff's public confidence was at only 10% before the elections.
As of 8.45 p.m. (1545 GMT), unofficial results for 261 seats showed Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) had won 87 and Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) had 67.
The pro-Musharraf PML trailed with 38. Small parties and independents shared the others.
A few seats were not contested, while 70 reserved for women and religious minorities will be divided up proportionately among parties according to the number of votes they won.
Musharraf has said he will accept the results and work with the winners to build democracy in a country that has alternated between civilian and army rule throughout its 60-year history.
Relief at the absence of serious vote-rigging and relatively low levels of violence helped Pakistan's main stock market gain more than 3 percent. At least 20 people were killed, but that was not as bad as feared after a bloody election campaign.
