BNP wins 49.97% vote share, Jamaat 31.76%: EC

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secured 49.97%, while Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami gained 31.76% of total votes cast in the 13th National Parliamentary Election held on 12 February.

Besides, National Citizen Party (NCP) obtained 3.05% votes, Islami Andolan Bangladesh pocketed 2.70% votes, Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish gained 2.09% and Jatiya Party got only 0.89%, according to the statistics of the Election Commission.

In the election, 274 independent contestants bagged 5.79% votes.

A total of 77,695,023 votes (out of 127 million voters) were cast in the 299 constituencies (except Sherpur-3) in the election held on last Thursday.

The EC released unofficial election results of 297 constituencies on last Friday (13 February) and kept the result of Chattogram-2 and Chattogram-4 withheld in line with the court orders.

In the election, BNP secured 209 parliamentary seats, while Jamaat won in 68 seats, NCP in six constituencies, independent candidates in seven constituencies, Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish in two, Islami Andolan Bangladesh (IAB) in one, Bangladesh Jatiya Party-BJP (led by Andaleeve Rahman Partho) in one, Gono Odhikar Parishad in one, Ganosamhati Andolan in one and Khelafat Majlish in one parliamentary seat.

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