The Bangladesh Election Commission announced the unofficial results of 298 of the 300 parliamentary seats in the South Asian country.
Bangladesh's ruling Awami League
party won a landslide victory in the Jan. 7 general election amid a boycott by
opposition parties. The Election Commission of Bangladesh on Monday announced
unofficial results for 298 of the country's 300 parliamentary seats. done.
Overall, the ruling Awami League
Party won 223 seats, its ally Jamata Party won 11 seats, independents won 61
seats and the rest were won by other parties. were
Due to the death of an
independent candidate and the cancellation of voting at one centre, elections
were stopped in two seats.
Chief Election Commissioner Qazi
Habib Al-Awal said the commission has revised the voter turnout to 41.8 percent
from the earlier 40 percent of the 120 million registered voters.
He added that if anyone has any
complaint against the results, they can appeal to the court till January 31.
Meanwhile, Minister of State for
Electricity, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasr Al-Hamid said the new cabinet
will be formed by January 15.
The 2014 national elections,
which were also boycotted by the opposition parties, saw a voter turnout of
around 40% while the 2018 elections saw over 80% voter turnout.
Opposition parties led by the
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), its ally Jamaat-e-Islami Party, and others
boycotted the election.
BNP Standing Committee member
Abdul Moin Khan on Monday demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina, the cancellation of the "dummy election" and the holding of
fresh elections under a neutral invigilator system.
The government repeatedly
rejected calls for the system, which was scrapped in parliament in 2011.
Since the political unrest began
in late October, at least 27 opposition supporters have been killed, as well as
a journalist and a police officer. According to BNP figures, more than 27,200
BNP supporters have been arrested and more than 1,290 have been sentenced to
jail, of which more than 100,400 have been prosecuted in police cases. are
At least 27 candidates walked out
in the middle of the election.
Meanwhile, a total of 140
incidents of election irregularities were reported across the country and
around 42 people were arrested in these incidents, the Election Commission
said.
