The Bangladesh election turned out to be a historic victory for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), with Tariq Rahman returning as the new face of Bangladesh.
Bangladeshi women leave after casting their vote outside a polling station during the national parliamentary elections in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (AP)Barred from participating in the 2024 elections, Tariq Rahman’s BNP won a two-thirds majority, winning 209 out of 297 seats.
Bangladesh’s Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, which was eyeing a comeback in the polls, won 69 seats. Sheikh Hasina’s party Awami League was barred from contesting the elections.
With the latest victory, the BNP ended 15 years of rule by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government, which fell in August 2024, and gave the country its first male prime minister in two decades.
Here is the list of winners of 299 constituencies in Bangladesh:
Netrakona 1- Barrister Kaiser Kamal (BNP)Moulvibazar 3- Nasser Rahman (BNP)Moulvibazar 1- Nasir Uddin Ahmed (BNP)Kushtia 3- Md Amir Hamza (Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami)Khagrachhari 1- Abdul Wuduh Bhuiyan (BNP)Cox’s Bazar 4- Shahjahan Chowdhury (BNP)Rangpur 6- Md Nurul Amin (Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami)Rangpur 5- Md. Golam Rabbani (Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami)Rangpur 4- Akhtar Hossain (National Citizen Party-NCP)Rangpur 3- Md. Mahbubur Rahman (Belal) (Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami)Rangpur 1- Md Raihan Siraji (Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami)Chattogram 11- Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury (BNP)Chittagong-4 Md Aslam Chowdhury (BNP)Chattogram – 2 Md. Sarowar Alamgir (BNP)Dhaka 19- Mohammad Salahuddin Council (BNP)Dhaka 10- Sheikh Rabiul Alam (BNP)Barguna 1- Md Ali Ullah (Islamic Movement Bangladesh)Useful 2- Md Nurul Islam (BNP)Barishal 1- Zahir Uddin Swapan (BNP)Barishal 2- Sardar Sarfuddin Ahmed (BNP)Barishal 3- Zainul Abedin (BNP)Barisal 4- Md Rajib Ahsan (BNP)Barisal 5- Md Mujibur Rahman Sarwar (BNP)Barishal 6- Abul Hossain Khan (BNP)Bhola 1- Andalib Rahman (BNP)Bhola 2- Md. Hafiz Ibrahim (BNP)Bhola 3- Hafiz Uddin Ahmed (BNP)Bhola 4- Mohammad Nurul Islam (BNP)Jhalokathi 1- Rafiqul Islam Jamal (BNP)Jhalkathi 2- Esrat Sultana Ellen Bhutto (BNP)Patuakhali 1- Altaf Hossain Chowdhury (BNP)Patuakhali 2- Md. Shafiqul Islam (Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami)Patuakhali 3- Md. Nurul Haque (Gono Odhikar Parishad)Patuakhali 4- ABM Mosharraf Hossain (BNP)
