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Published : 29 Apr 2015, 06:40 AM
Former FBCCI chief Huq with his ‘table clock’ electoral symbol bagged 460,117 votes, Returning Officer Shah Alam announced at his office at the capital’s Agargaon at 6:35am on Wednesday.
His nearest rival BNP-backed Tabith Mohammed Awal pulled out after the party alleged massive rigging and boycotted the city polls at noon Tuesday.
Tabith is the son of another former FBCCI president Abdul Awal Mintoo.
He, however, received 325,080 votes for his ‘bus’ symbol.
Bikalpadhara Bangladesh’s Mahi B Chowdhury with ‘eagle’ got 13,407 votes.
Voting at 1,093 polling centres in the Dhaka North City Corporation began at 8am and ran through to 4pm.
Of the nearly 2.35 million voters in this city corporation, 874,581 cast their votes.
Election officials cancelled 33,581 votes.
The election to this city corporation took place along with Dhaka South and Chittagong city corporations.
Altogether 16 people were contending for the office of the mayor of Dhaka North in its first election after the Dhaka City Corporation’s bifurcation in November 2011.
AYM Qamrul Islam (cricket bat) got 1,216 votes, Qazi Md Shahidullah (hilsa) 2,968 votes, Sheikh Md Fazle Bari Masud (orange) 18,050 votes, Shamsul Alam Chowdhury (cheetah) 982 votes, Moazzem Hossain Khan (flask) 1,095 votes, Chowdhury Erad Ahmed Siddiqui (gourd) 915 votes, Md Anisuzzaman Khokon (dish antenna) 900 votes, Md Jaman Bhuiyan (table) 1,140 and Sheikh Shahiduzzman (matchbox) got 923 votes.
In Dhaka North, 281 ran for general councillor posts in 36 wards, while 89 are vied for 12 wards reserved for women councillors.
