BNP’s Ishraque Hossain wins Dhaka-6 seat

Bangla Press Desk:   BNP candidate Ishraque Hossain has won the Dhaka-6 constituency in the unofficial results of the 13th National Parliamentary Election. Contesting with the party symbol ‘sheaf of paddy’, he secured a total of 78,850 votes.

His nearest rival, Jamaat-e-Islami candidate Md Abdul Mannan, received 55,697 votes. Ishraque Hossain defeated his opponent by a margin of 23,153 votes.

The result was announced at around 4:30am on Friday by Dhaka Divisional Commissioner and Returning Officer Sharaf Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury.

Sharaf Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury said voting, including postal ballots, took place at 101 polling centres in the constituency. A total of 292,281 voters were registered in Dhaka-6.

Of them, 139,388 cast their votes, resulting in a turnout of 48 per cent.

A total of 2,209 ballots were declared invalid, leaving 137,179 valid votes. Source: daily Sun

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