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The constituency recorded a 53.67% turnout, much better than most.
Mojibor Rahman Chowdhury alias Nixon Chowdhury, who emerged victor, happens to be a relative of Awami League president and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Hasina’s father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s elder sister Fatima Begum is the paternal grandmother of Nixon.
Nixon got 98,300 votes using his election symbol ‘pineapple’ while his nearest rival Zafarullah, who was the sitting MP from this seat, got 72,248 votes in the Opposition-boycotted polls.
172,714 voters out of the total listed 321,791 exercised the franchise in the constituency on Sunday. 1,607 votes were cancelled.