Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani announced that the PPP nominee received 88 votes while PTI nominee Khurram Sher Zaman received 3 votes from the House.
Shah, who until the resignation of Qaim Ali Shah as chief minster on Wednesday was working as a senior minister for finance, had only one rival candidate from the opposition benches — MPA Khurram Sher Zaman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
The PPP, which has taken a lot of flak for its poor show of governance in the province, has replaced octogenarian Qaim Ali Shah with a relatively young leader as part of a campaign to ready itself for the 2018 general elections.
Friday's contest was a one-sided affair given the statistics of lawmakers in the house being highly in favour of the PPP. The provincial assembly session was summoned by the governor at 3pm to elect the new chief minister.
The legislature comprised 168 members, but there were 165 MPAs as three seats are vacant. The PPP had 91 members in the Sindh Assembly, a number big enough to give Murad Ali Shah a comfortable majority to win and form a cabinet of choice.
PTI candidate Khurram Sher Zaman had no chance to sail through the election with his party having only four lawmakers in the house. And of these four, only cast their votes because MPA Syed Hafeezuddin had announced his quitting the party and resigning as MPA to join Mustafa Kamal-led Pak Sarzameen Party.
Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani chaired the session of the Sindh Assembly.
The house elected the new leader of the house through the open system of polling instead of using the secret ballot process as the house members voted by taking part in the process of division of the house for conducting the poll.
Son of former Sindh Chief Minister Abdullah Shah, Murad Ali Shah now becomes the 27th Sindh CM, the first time that the son of a former Sindh Chief minister is elected as the chief of the provincial government.
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