2023 Sylhet City Corporation election

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2023 Sylhet City Corporation election
Flag of Bangladesh.svg
  2018 21 June 20232028 
Registered4,86,605
Turnout46.51% (Decrease2.svg 16.85pp)
Mayoral election
21 June 2023
 
Nominee Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury Nazrul Islam Babul
Party AL JP(E)
Popular vote1,19,99150,862
Percentage53.18%22.54%

Mayor before election

Ariful Haque Choudhury
BNP

Elected Mayor

Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury
AL

Council election
21 June 2023
56 seats in the Sylhet City Corporation
PartyLeaderSeats+/–
AL Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury 41+22
BNP Didn't Participate9−2
Jamaat-e-Islami 6+4
Independent 0−4
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2023 Sylhet City Corporation election is an election in Sylhet, Bangladesh, that was held on 21 June 2023 to elect the next mayor & councillors of Sylhet. [1] In this election, AL candidate achieved a landslide victory.

Contents

Schedule

The schedule of the election was announced by the Election Commission of Bangladesh on 29 March 2023. [2]

EventDateDay
Date of Notification3 April 2023Monday
Deadline for submission of nomination paper23 May 2023
Date for scrutiny of nominations25 May 2023
Appeal against the nomination paper scrutiny26-28 May 2023
Appeal resolve29-31 May 2023
Last date for withdrawal of candidatures1 June 2023
Symbols distribution2 June 2023
Date of poll & counting21 June 2023


Candidates

Mayoral election

A total of 7 candidates were contested for the mayoral post. [3]

NameElection Symbol  Party Ref.
Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury Nouka (Boat) Bangladesh Awami League [4] [5]
Hafiz Maulana Mahmudul HasanHatpakha (Hand fan) Islami Andolon Bangladesh
Nazrul Islam BabulLangol (Plough) Jatiya Party (Ershad)
Zahirul AlamGolap ful (Rose) Zaker Party
Abdul Hanif KutuGhora (Horse) Independent
Chalah Uddin RimonCricket Bat Independent
Shah Jahan MiaBus Independent

Council election

In Sylhet, 87 candidates were contested for 14 women-reserved seats and 273 were contested for 42 seats of ward councillors. [6]

Mayoral election results

CandidatePartyVotes%
Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury Bangladesh Awami League 119,99153.18
Nazrul Islam Babul Jatiya Party (Ershad) 50,86222.54
Md. Shah Jahan MiaIndependent28,68812.71
Hafiz Maulana Mahmudul Hasan Islami Andolan Bangladesh 12,7945.67
Abdul Hanif KutuIndependent4,2961.90
Zahirul Alam Zaker Party 3,4051.51
Mushtaq Ahmed Rauf MostafaIndependent2,9591.31
Salah Uddin RimonIndependent2,6481.17
Total225,643100.00
Valid votes225,64399.46
Invalid/blank votes1,2160.54
Total votes226,859100.00
Registered voters/turnout487,75346.51
Source:

Council election Results

Party-wise

2023 SCC council election results (party-wise)
Sylhet City Council election 2023.svg
PartySeats
Ward CouncilorsReserved Women CouncilorsTotal Councilors
Bangladesh Awami League 301141
Bangladesh Nationalist Party 819
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami 426
Total421456

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