2023 Khulna City Corporation election

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2023 Khulna City Corporation election
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  2018 12 June 20232028 
Registered535,528
Mayoral election
12 June 2023
Turnout47.88%
 
Nominee Talukder Abdul Khaleque Abdul Awal
Party AL IAB
Popular vote1,54,82560,064
Percentage60.38%23.42%

Mayor before election

Talukder Abdul Khaleque
AL

Elected Mayor

Talukder Abdul Khaleque
AL

Council election
12 June 2023
41 [lower-alpha 1] seats in the Khulna City Corporation
PartyLeaderSeats+/–
AL Talukder Abdul Khaleque 39+21
BNP didn’t Contested0−9
Jamaat-e-Islami 1+1
Independent 1−5
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2023 Khulna City Corporation election was an election in Khulna, Bangladesh, to held on 12 June 2023 to elect the next mayor & councillors of Khulna. [1] A total of 535,528 people cast their votes 1,732 polling booths under 289 polling stations in Khulna City Corporation election. [2]

Contents

Schedule

The schedule of the election was announced by the Election Commission of Bangladesh on 29 March 2023. [3]

EventDateDay
Date of Notification3 April 2023Monday
Deadline for submission of nomination paper16 May 2023
Date for scrutiny of nominations18 May 2023
Appeal against the nomination paper scrutiny19–21 May 2023
Appeal resolve22–24 May 2023
Last date for withdrawal of candidatures25 May 2023
Symbols distribution26 May 2023
Date of poll & counting12 June 2023

Candidates

Mayoral election

A total of 5 candidates were contested for the mayoral post.

NameElection Symbol  Party Ref.
Talukder Abdul Khaleque Nouka (Boat) Bangladesh Awami League [4] [5]
Abdul AwalHatpakha (Hand fan) Islami Andolon Bangladesh
Shafiqul Islam MadhuLangol (Plough) Jatiya Party (Ershad)
SM Sabbir HossainGolap ful (Rose) Zaker Party

Council election

Total of 134 and 39 were contested for 31 general and 10 reserved (women) seats in the city council, respectively.

Results

Results by party

Vote by party

  Bangladesh Awami League (60.41%)
  Islami Andolan Bangladesh (23.44%)
  Jatiya Party (Ershad) (7.05%)
  Independent (6.72%)
  Zaker Party (2.38%)
CandidatePartyVotes%
Talukder Abdul Khaleque Bangladesh Awami League 154,82560.41
Abdul Awal Islami Andolan Bangladesh 60,06423.44
Shafiqul Islam Madhu Jatiya Party (Ershad) 18,0747.05
SM Shafiqur RahmanIndependent17,2186.72
SM Sabbir Hossain Zaker Party 6,0962.38
Total256,277100.00
Valid votes256,27799.94
Invalid/blank votes1560.06
Total votes256,433100.00
Registered voters/turnout535,52847.88

Talukder Abdul Khaleque was elected as mayor of the Khulna City Corporation by defeating Islami Andolan candidate Abdul Awal. [6]

Notes

  1. 31 are general, 10 reserved for women

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