BNP candidate Mirza Faisal Amin wins Thakurgaon by-election

BanglaPress Desk: Mirza Faisal Amin, the candidate nominated by the BNP (running with the 'sheaf of paddy' symbol), has been declared the unofficial winner of the by-election for the Thakurgaon-1 constituency.
On Thursday night (October 29), the District Returning Officer and District Election Officer, Kamrul Islam, announced his unofficial victory.
Voting for the Thakurgaon-1 by-election took place earlier on Thursday (October 29), from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
For the election, 21 platoons of the BGB (Border Guard Bangladesh), 2,272 police personnel, and 2,405 Ansar members were deployed. Additionally, an election inquiry committee, along with judicial and executive magistrates, were present in the field. A total of 177 local observers, including four foreign observers, were tasked with monitoring the electoral process.
Five candidates contested the Thakurgaon-1 by-election: Mirza Faisal Amin—brother of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and president of the district BNP—(symbol: sheaf of paddy); Delwar Hossain—a member of the central Majlis-e-Shura of Jamaat-e-Islami and assistant secretary of its Dhaka Metropolitan South unit—(symbol: scales); Khademul Islam of Islami Andolon Bangladesh (symbol: hand fan); Abdul Alim Nizami of Bangladesh Khelafat Andolon (symbol: banyan tree); and Hussain Muhammad Omar Faruk of Bangladesh Congress (symbol: green coconut).
The Thakurgaon-1 constituency has a total of 516,138 registered voters, comprising 257,468 men, 258,666 women, and four voters from the third gender.
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