Javed, a former President of Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI), bagged 124,964 votes while his nearest candidate Ujjal Bhowmick of Gano Forum polled only 1,846 votes.
Assistant Returning Officer Khorshed Alam announced the results at his office around 8pm.
Around 51.04 percent of the voters had cast their votes, of which Javed got 97.84 percent.
The constituency has a total of 250,257 voters of which 126,293 are males and 123,964 females.
The main opposition BNP boycotted the by-polls held nearly one year ahead of the 10th parliamentary elections.
The balloting to elect a lawmaker to represent the constituency ended peacefully earlier in the day amid low voter turnout.
The voting at 90 polling centres started at 8am and continued until 4pm without any break.
Chittagong district Superintendent of Police AKM Hafiz Akter said that a team comprising a judicial magistrate, 25 executive magistrates, 250 members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and 4,000 policemen, coast guards and BGB personnel were deployed in the polling centres.
Ujjal cast his vote at Khilpara Government Primary School around 11am.
The Election Commission pulled up Javed for casting a “vote” in front of media cameras in a booth where he was not a voter.
Javed went to visit the polling centre at Hailchar B Jaman High School in the morning though he is enrolled as a voter in Chittagong city. That is where he pretended of casting his vote before the cameras at the polling centre.
Initial rumours suggested he had cast his vote at that polling centre, but later when it became clear he had merely posed, he came in for criticism.
Returning Officer Farhad Ahmed Khan told bdnews24.com: “Javed isn’t a voter of the area. He has applied to enrolment in this area but unless the rolls are finalized as scheduled on Jan 31, he can’t vote in this area..”
When contacted, Javed told bdnews24.com he had only pretended for the cameras on the request of journalists:
“I’m not a voter of the area. I’ve petitioned for shifting my enrolment. As the journalists requested at the polling centre, I pretended of casting vote in a white paper. I know I cannot cast a vote there, I only flaunted the paper,” he said.
Deputy Secretary at the Election Commission Secretariat Shajahan Khan said this was “unethical” .
Senior Assistant Secretary Farhad Hossain said that action could be taken against the concerned Presiding Officer after getting specific allegations on the issue.
Election Commissioner Abdul Mobarak said there was no scope for a ‘dummy vote’.
The parliamentary seat fell vacant after Javed’s father Akhteruzzaman Chowdhury Babu died on Nov 4 last year. Babu was member of the Awami League’s powerful Presidium and the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Jute and Textiles.
