2018 Barishal City Corporation election

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2018 Barishal City Corporation election
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  2013 30 July 2018 2023  
Mayoral election
Registered2,41,959
  Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah.png
Nominee Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah Mujibur Rahman Sarwar
Party AL BNP
Popular vote1,09,80313,041
Percentage78.91%9.37%

Mayor before election

Ahsan Habib Kamal
BNP

Elected Mayor

Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah
AL

Council election
40 seats in the Barisal City Corporation
PartyLeaderSeats+/–
AL Sadiq Abdullah 27
BNP Mujibur Rahman 4
Independent 8
JP(E) 1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2018 Barishal City Corporation election was an election in Barisal, Bangladesh, held on 30 July 2018 to elect the next Mayor of Barisal. Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah was elected as second mayor of the Barishal City Corporation in August 2018.

Contents

Candidates

Mayoral election

Name  Party Ref.
Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah Bangladesh Awami League [1]
Mujibur Rahman Sarwar Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Obaidur Rahman Mahbub Islami Andolon Bangladesh
Md Iqbal Hossain Jatiya Party (Ershad)
Abul Kalam Azad Communist Party of Bangladesh
Manisha Chakrabarty Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dal

Incidents

Before the elections, hundreds of Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists were detained. [2]

BNP candidate Sarwar withdrew before the voting was completed alleging irregularities with the voting. [3]

A mayoral candidate, Manisha Chakraborty of BSD, was assaulted as she protested snatching of ballot papers by AL supporters at a polling station in ward-17 in Barisal. [4]

Results

Mayoral election result

Abdullah received 107,353 votes while his nearest rival, Mazibor Rahman Sarwar of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, received 13,135 votes. [5]

Barisal Mayoral Election 2018
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AL Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah 1,09,803
BNP Mujibur Rahman Sarwar 13,041
Majority96,762
Turnout 1,39,151
Registered electors 2,41,959
AL gain from BNP

Council election Results

Party-wise

2018 BCC council election results (party-wise) [6]
Barishal City Council election 2018.svg
PartySeats
Ward CouncilorsReserved Women CouncilorsTotal Councilors
Bangladesh Awami League 21727
Bangladesh Nationalist Party 314
Jatiya Party (Ershad) 11
Independent 628
Total301040

Aftermath

The election was boycotted by the candidates of Communist Party of Bangladesh and Islami Andolon Bangladesh who alleged vote rigging. [7]

They demanded the Election Commission postpone the polls. [8]

New elected mayor Abdullah was sworn in office by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Prime Minister's Office in Dhaka. [9]

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