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Registered | 3,18,138 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 63.36% | ||||||||||||||||||||
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30 July 2018 36 seats in the Sylhet City Corporation | |||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. |
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The 2018 election for mayor of Sylhet City Corporation was held on 30 July 2018. Sylhet is a city in Bangladesh. The result was again a victory for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate Ariful Haque Choudhury. [2]
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Ariful Haque Choudhury | Bangladesh Nationalist Party | 92,588 | 47.74 | |
Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran | Bangladesh Awami League | 86,392 | 44.54 | |
Ehsanul Mahbub Jubayer | Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami | 10,954 | 5.65 | |
Moazzem Hossain | Islami Andolan Bangladesh | 2,195 | 1.13 | |
Md. Abu Jafar | Socialist Party of Bangladesh | 909 | 0.47 | |
Badruzzaman Salim | Independent | 592 | 0.31 | |
Ehsanul Haque Taher | Independent | 314 | 0.16 | |
Total | 193,944 | 100.00 | ||
Valid votes | 193,944 | 96.21 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 7,633 | 3.79 | ||
Total votes | 201,577 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 318,138 | 63.36 | ||
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Party | Seats | |||
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Ward Councilors | Reserved Women Councilors | Total Councilors | ||
Bangladesh Awami League | 14 | 5 | 19 | |
Bangladesh Nationalist Party | 9 | 2 | 11 | |
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami | 2 | — | 2 | |
Independent | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Total | 27 | 9 | 36 |
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