Tarique wins Dhaka-17 constituency

BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman has been unofficially declared the winner in the Dhaka-17 constituency, according to unofficial results.

Tarique secured 72,699 votes in the constituency. His nearest rival, SM Khaliduzzaman of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, received 68,300 votes.

The results were announced at 4:00am on Friday by Dhaka Divisional Commissioner and Returning Officer Sharaf Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury.

He said voting was held at 125 polling centres in the constituency, including postal ballots.

Overall, Tarique won the seat by a margin of 4,399 votes over his closest competitor.

Dhaka-17 has a total of 333,813 registered voters. Of them, 147,888 votes were cast. A total of 2,211 ballots were declared invalid, leaving 145,677 valid votes.

Among other candidates in the constituency, Mohammad Ullah of Islami Andolan Bangladesh, contesting with the “hand fan” symbol, secured 1,768 votes, while Atik Ahmed of the Jatiya Party, contesting with the “plough” symbol, received 1,168 votes.