Detailed results are now available:
AL, allies sweep to victory: Unofficial polls results announced
Wednesday 31 December, 2008
The Election Commission on Tuesday announced the unofficial results of elections to the 299 constituencies which went to the polls on Monday. The alliance led by the Awami League had a landslide victory, winning 262 seats.
The commission is likely to announce the official results on Thursday in a gazette notification and the process for the [...]
Hasina commits to work with opposition for modern Bangladesh
The Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, on Tuesday committed to strengthen the country’s democracy through working with the opposition in parliament for building a modern Bangladesh.
‘Our leader Sheikh Hasina hoped that all in the treasury bench and the opposition together would build a modern and prosperous Bangladesh,’ co-chairman of the AL election steering committee, HT [...]
Khaleda terms polls farcical, unacceptable
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Tuesday night termed the December 29 general elections ‘farcical’ and said this election was unacceptable to the party.
‘This farcical election is unacceptable to BNP,’ Khaleda Zia said in a primary reaction given after a five-hour meeting of the party’s national standing committee.
She said the party had anticipated [...]
BNP leaders divided over next course
A section of leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party believes that the party should begin soul-searching after the debacle in the December 29 general elections in order to start afresh, while the other section, particularly the defeated heavyweights, want the party to reject the results and demand fresh polls.
‘We must do soul-searching [before starting [...]
Highest 64 women elected to 9th JS
The ninth parliament will have the highest number of 64 female lawmakers, including 19 elected in Monday’s election and 45 to be elected for the female reserved seats.
For the first time 19 women candidates contesting for 23 parliamentary seats defeated their male and female contestants by a huge number of votes.
This time 60 women candidates [...]
Allies want ‘due share’ in AL-led govt
Allies in the Awami League-led electoral combine expect ‘due representation’ in the new cabinet to be formed by the grand alliance.
‘We hope the Awami League chief [Sheikh Hasina] will discuss the matter with the partners before taking a decision’,
Anisul Islam Mahmud, acting chairman of the Jatiya Party, said Tuesday about formation of the cabinet, [...]
New govt to take over in 10 days, says adviser
The new government will take charge seven days inside the official announcement of the results of the ninth parliamentary polls, said an adviser to the interim government on Tuesday.
Four advisers to the interim administration separately made statements on the election results while talking to reporters at the secretariat on Tuesday.
The government of Fakhruddin Ahmed, according [...]
Giants who fell
Most of the senior politicians in Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Bikalpadhara Bangladesh, Communist Party of Bangladesh, Jatiya Party, a faction of JSD and Krishak Sramik Janata League were defeated in Monday’s parliamentary polls.
The BNP leaders who were unofficially declared defeated in the polls were – secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain (Manikganj 1), standing [...]
Incoming govt’s challenges to meet people’s expectations
Khawaza Main Uddin
The domestic economic problems, global recession, and polls pledges will pose serious challenges for the incoming government, expected to be headed by Awami League president Sheikh Hasina, for translating the people’s expectations to reality, economists opined.
Based on the electoral agendas and needs, economists have listed a number of issues to be [...]
Mandate confers great responsibility
With nearly all the results now in, the Awami League and the alliance that it leads have swept the general elections to the ninth Jatiya Sangsad. We offer our heartiest congratulations to the AL and its smaller alliance partners for their resounding victory. We are also extremely pleased that the elections were, for the most [...]
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