2018 Sylhet City Corporation election

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2018 Sylhet City Corporation election
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 201330 July 2018 2023  
Registered3,18,138
Turnout63.36%
Mayoral election
30 July 2018
 
Nominee Ariful Haque Choudhury Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran
Party BNP AL
Popular vote92,58886,392
Percentage47.74% [1] 44.54%

Mayor before election

Ariful Haque Choudhury
BNP

Elected Mayor

Ariful Haque Choudhury
BNP

Council election
30 July 2018
36 seats in the Sylhet City Corporation
PartyLeaderSeats+/–
AL Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran 19+6
BNP Ariful Haque Choudhury 11−6
JI Ehsanul Mahbub20
Independent 40
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

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]

Contents

Mayoral election results

CandidatePartyVotes%
Ariful Haque Choudhury Bangladesh Nationalist Party 92,58847.74
Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran Bangladesh Awami League 86,39244.54
Ehsanul Mahbub Jubayer Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami 10,9545.65
Moazzem Hossain Islami Andolan Bangladesh 2,1951.13
Md. Abu Jafar Socialist Party of Bangladesh 9090.47
Badruzzaman SalimIndependent5920.31
Ehsanul Haque TaherIndependent3140.16
Total193,944100.00
Valid votes193,94496.21
Invalid/blank votes7,6333.79
Total votes201,577100.00
Registered voters/turnout318,13863.36
Source:

Council election results

Party-wise

2018 SCC council election results (party-wise)
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PartySeats
Ward CouncilorsReserved Women CouncilorsTotal Councilors
Bangladesh Awami League 14519
Bangladesh Nationalist Party 9211
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami 22
Independent 224
Total27936

References

  1. "সিলেটের মেয়র হলেন আরিফুল হক". Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  2. "Sylhet mayor resumes office". newagebd.net. Retrieved 2018-08-08.