The resounding win means party chief Sheikh Hasina is headed for a record-extending fourth consecutive term - and the fifth in total
Published : 07 Jan 2024, 08:34 PM
The ruling Awami League candidates are leading their rivals in most of the seats, according to the results so far.
Awami League leaders running as independents have also taken the lead in some constituencies.
Jatiya Party aspirants are leading in a few seats.
Mostly peaceful polls see low voter turnout amid opposition boycott
Voting was held from 8aam to 4pm on Sunday in 299 out of 300 seats
The number of voters in the 299 constituencies is over 119.32 million, including over 60.5 million male, nearly 58.74 million female and 848 transgender voters
There were more than 260,000 voting booths in over 42,000 polling stations
The voting was held through ballot papers
Voting was suspended in at least seven centres
Presiding officers are sending the results to the returning officers after counting
Formal results are being announced from the Election Commission in Dhaka
Nearly 1,970 candidates are contesting the polls, include 1,532 nominees from 28 political parties and 437 independents.
They also include a record number of 97 women
The ruling Awami League has the highest number of candidates with 265
The Jatiya Party, the main opposition in parliament, has fielded 264 aspirants
Six candidates from the 14-Party Alliance are contesting the election with the Awami League’s Boat symbol
The BNP and its allies have boycotted the election
Around 30,000 observers and journalists are monitoring the election
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been re-elected to parliament from the Gopalganj-3 (Tungipara, Kotalipara) constituency after a landslide victory against rival M Nizam Uddin Lashkar in the general elections.
Gopalganj Deputy Commissioner and Returning Officer Kazi Mahbubul Alam announced her triumph.
The Awami League president bagged 249,965 votes in 108 centres in the constituency. Her nearest rival, Nizam Lashkar, from the Bangladesh Supreme Party, secured 469 votes.
She has been voted to parliament from the Gopalganj-3 seat for the eighth time since 1986.
Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader has won the Rangpur-3 seat.
Quader won 81,861 votes, while his closest challenger, independent candidate Anowara Islam Rani won 23,326.
The Rangpur-3 seat is one of the 26 from which Awami League candidates withdrew as part of a seat-sharing deal with the Jatiya Party.
Awami League candidate ABM Fazle Karim Chowdhury has been elected as the MP for the Chattogram-6 seat (Rauzon) for a fifth consecutive term.
The boat candidate racked up 221,572 votes in a landslide over his nearest rival, independent candidate Shafiul Azam, who got 3,159, according to information from the district administration and polling centres on Sunday.
The Chattogram-6 seat consists of the 14 unions of Rauzon Upazila and has 315,920 registered voters.
A total of 232,108 votes were cast in this election for a turnout of 72.72 percent. Another 1,637 votes were cancelled.
Fazle Karim won the seat in 2018 by a landslide too, beating BNP candidate Jashim Uddin Sikder by 230,471 votes to 2,244.
He also won the seat in 2014, 2008, and in 2001, meaning this will be his fifth term as the parliamentary representative of the constituency.
State Minister for Water Resources Zaheed Farooque has won the Barishal-5 constituency by a huge margin after polling 97,706 votes.
His Boat logo bagged 62,336 more votes than his nearest rival, Salah Uddin Ripon, an independent who ran with the truck symbol.
Two Awami League leaders running as independents –Abdus Salam and MA Motalleb - have beaten candidates running under the plough and the boat respectively in Chattogram.
The two were announced as winners in the official count announced by the district administration on Sunday and in the tally from the polling centres.
Former CDA Chairman and Awami League city leader Salam took the Chattogram-8 (Boalkhali-Chandgaon seat), while district Awami League leader Motalleb won the Chattogram-15 (Satkania-Lohagora) seat.
Awami League candidate Noman Al Mahmud had withdrawn from the Chattogram-8 seat in favour of the Jatiya Party candidate as part of a seat-sharing deal. Salam later ran as an independent.
Salam took 78,266 votes. Another Awami League leader running as an independent – Bijoy Kumar Chowdhury – came second with 41,500 votes. Solaiman Alam of the Jatiya Party came third with 8,245 votes.
The Chattogram-8 seat has 515,573 registered voters.
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal’s Mayeen Uddin Khan Badal had won the seat three consecutive times prior to his death in 2019.
MA Motalleb, running under the eagle symbol, won the Chattogram-15 seat with 85,628 votes, beating Awami League candidate Abu Reza Muhammad Nezamuddin Nadwi, who received 39,252.
The constituency has 458,411 registered voters. Voters cast 126,152 ballots in the race on Sunday and another 3,211 were cancelled. The turnout was 27.51 percent.
In 2018, Nadwi had retained the seat he won in 2014 by beating the LDP’s Ali Ahmed by 189,186 votes to 22,225.
Independent Iftiquar Uddin Talukder Pintu has caused a big upset, beating Awami League Cultural Affairs Secretary Asim Kumar Ukil in Netrokona-3.
Pintu secured 76,803 votes to Ukil's 74,550.
Mostly peaceful polls see low voter turnout amid opposition boycott
Voting was held from 8am to 4pm on Sunday in 299 out of 300 seats
Over 119.32 million voters are registered for the polls - over 60.5 million male, nearly 58.74 million female and 848 transgender voters
Voting was suspended in at least seven centres
The BNP and its allies have boycotted the election
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has triumphed in the Noakhali-5 race by a huge margin.
Dewan Mahbubur Rahman, deputy commissioner and returning officer of the district, announced the results from 132 centres in the Companyganj-Kabirhat constituency at 9pm on Sunday.
Quader received 181,147 votes, while his closest competitor, Khawaja Tanveer Ahmed of the Jatiya Party, garnered 9,702 votes under the plough symbol, said the returning officer.
Awami League’s five-time parliamentarian Dhirendra Debnath Shambhu has lost the Barguna-1 seat to independent Golam Sarwar Tuku.
Tuku clinched the seat with 61,874 votes, 7,706 more than what Shambhu secured.
Shambhu did not even finish second in the race as Tuku’s nearest rival, Golam Sarwar Forkan, an independent, got 57,874 votes.
Former information minister Hasanul Haq Inu, president of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal and a key partner of the Awami League from the 14-Party Alliance, has lost the race for the Kushtia-2 seat.
According to the results, Kamarul Arefin, an Awami League leader who ran as an independent, was elected with 115,799 votes while Inu, running under the Boat symbol of the ruling party, received 92,445 votes.
Awami League candidates, including former minister Nurul Islam Nahid, have won five out of six constituencies in Sylhet.
Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury, a former BNP minister and incumbent chairman of the Trinamool BNP, came in third in Nahid’s Sylhet-6 seat.
According to unofficial results, Nahid bagged 57,758 votes while Shamsher polled 10,000 votes.
Second-placed independent candidate Sarwar Hossain, former president of the Awami League’s overseas unit in Canada, got 39,488 votes.
Masuk Uddin Ahmad, the Awami League candidate for Sylhet-5, lost to independent aspirant Maulana Husam Uddin Chowdhury.
The other winners in Sylhet are Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen of Sylhet-1, Shafiqur Rahman Chowdhury of Sylhet-2, Habibur Rahman of Sylhet-3, and Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad of Sylhet-4.
Independent candidate and barrister Syed Sayedul Haque Suman has won the Habiganj-4 parliamentary seat by a massive margin of nearly 100,000 votes.
Suman, involved in Jubo League politics, is a familiar face on Facebook and well-known in the constituency, which consists of the Madhabpur and Chunarughat Upazilas.
The Awami League candidate for the seat is incumbent and two-time MP Advocate Mahbub Ali, who is also the state minister for civil aviation and tourism.
According to the unofficial results, Suman scored 169,099 votes while Mahbub got 69,543.
Salman F Rahman, the prime minister's private industry and investment adviser, has retained the Dhaka-1 constituency with a resounding victory over the Jatiya Party's Salma Islam.
The Awami League candidate bagged a whopping 150,005 votes, while Salma secured 34,930.
Dhaka-1 was one of the seats contested by both the Awami League and the Jatiya Party in 2014.
Salma, the chairman of the Jamuna Group and wife of the conglomerate's founder, Nurul Islam Babul, defeated the Awami League's Abdul Mannan Khan in the polls.
In 2018, the Jatiya Party gave up the seat in an agreement as part of the Grand Alliance, resulting in victory for Salman.
The former minister of state for women and children affairs, Salma ran as an independent candidate after she failed to secure a party nomination that year.
Salman received 302,993 votes, while Salma won only 37,763.
Despite losing the race for Dhaka-1, Salma was later chosen as MP to a parliamentary seat reserved for women.
Bangladesh Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon has won the Barishal-2 seat by a huge margin of around 100,000 votes.
The 14-Party Alliance leader contested the seat comprising the Uzirpur and Banaripara Upazilas against his nearest rival, AK Faiyazul Huq Razu, the grandson of Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazlul Huq.
Menon secured 122,175 votes while Razu got 31,397 votes as an independent candidate running under the Eagle symbol.
Enamur Rahman, Awami League candidate for Dhaka-19 and state minister for disaster management and relief, has lost his race for the Savar parliamentary seat.
He was beaten by independent candidate Saiful Islam, the general secretary of the Ashulia Thana branch of the Awami League.
Dhaka Returning Officer and Deputy Commissioner Anisur Rahman announced the results of the 292 polling centres in the constituency after polls closed on Sunday.
Saiful received 84,412 votes, his closest competitor independent candidate Touhid Jong Murad received 76,202 votes, and boat candidate Enamur received 56,361 votes.
After the Rana Plaza disaster in 2013, a significant portion of the victims received treatment at Enam Medical College Hospital, which led to public praise for Enamur.
Though he had no connection to Awami League politics previously, he received the Awami League’s nomination for the 2014 polls. He won the polls uncontested.
Enamur was made a state minister after he retained the seat in the 2018 polls.
The ruling Awami League has clinched its biggest ever majority in parliament in Sunday’s general election marked by a boycott by the BNP and a low turnout.
The resounding win means party chief Sheikh Hasina is headed for a record-extending fourth consecutive term - and the fifth in total.
The party secured 152 out of 208 seats in Sunday’s election with the outcome of a third of the seats still unannounced, according to unofficial results released until 2:15am on Monday.
The party lost most of the other seats to its rebel candidates, who were allowed to run freely as part of a strategy to drum up enthusiasm among voters amid the boycott by the largest opposition party.
After violent protests in the run-up to the polls, the focus was on the turnout, but the final figure could not be confirmed as the Election Commission stopped announcing the results midway.
After the voting ended, Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal put the provisional turnout at roughly 40 percent.
As many as 45 independent candidates, mostly Awami League leaders who contested the party’s choice, won in the balloting.
The Jatiya Party, which was the main opposition in parliament, managed only eight seats.
The party’s candidates have lost several of the 26 constituencies left by the Awami League in a seat-sharing deal.
The Awami League’s allies the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal and the Workers Party won one each.
The Kalyan Party, which had once been in the BNP-led coalition, also secured a win in one seat.
EC Secretary Jahangir Alam, who was declaring the results at their headquarters in Dhaka, stopped the announcement after the results of 190 seats were out until around 2am on Monday, with the Awami League securing wins in 151 constituencies.
The EC was showing the tally on a screen until then.
After a 15-minute break, Jahangir announced the results of Cox’s Bazar-4.
“We’ve announced the results of the 299 seats separately. We’ll present the summary tomorrow [Monday]. The results we’ve announced will be put up on the notice board.”
As the journalists there wanted to know party-wise results, Jahangir said they would get the details on Monday.