The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led by Tarique Rahman has declared victory a day after the South Asian nation voted in a high-stakes election – the first since the 2024 student-led uprising that ousted the previous Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.The Election Commission (EC) on Friday released the latest results from the elections, showing that the BNP had won 209 seats so far out of the 297 announced.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listJamaat-e-Islami, which was banned by the Hasina government, has registered its best performance, winning 68 seats and emerging as the main opposition party in the 350-member parliament, the Jatiya Sangsad. Fifty are nominated members.The National Citizen Party (NCP), a political party born out of the protests, is in the third place with six seats. The party leader, Nahid Islam, has managed to win his seat, becoming one of the youngest MPs in the new parliament. The NCP fought the election in alliance with Jamaat.Hasina’s Awami League was barred from participating in the elections, and she fled to India after 15 years of authoritarian rule.The general elections were also accompanied by a national referendum on “the July Charter”, aimed at reforming state institutions.The EC on Friday said voter turnout was 59.88 percent, in one of the most peaceful and credible elections in decades.Who won the election in Bangladesh?According to the latest results released by the EC: the BNP won 209 seats; Jamaat won with 68 seats; and the NCP won six seats.Other parties won seven seats and independent candidates won the other seven seats that remained. Adver …
