Awami League is going to form the government for the fourth consecutive time with an absolute majority in the 12th National Assembly elections. Out of 299 constituencies, the private results of 298 constituencies are available so far. Awami League won 223 of them. Independent candidates won the most after the incumbents, with 61 seats. The main opposition party in the current parliament, the Jatiya Party, won 11 seats. And other parties won three seats. Among them, Workers Party of Bangladesh, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSAD and Bangladesh Welfare Party won one seat each.

Most of the independent candidates are Awami League leaders. Apart from this, Syed Ekramuzzaman who was expelled from BNP in Brahmanbaria-1 (Nasirnagar) constituency and Mohammad Hushamuddin Chowdhury, an independent candidate of Sylhet-5 (Kanaighat and Jokiganj) constituencies won. Continuous voting took place from 8 am to 4 pm yesterday. Out of 300 parliamentary constituencies, voting was held yesterday in 299 constituencies. Voting in Naogaon-2 constituency was suspended due to the death of a candidate.

At the end of the day’s polling, Election Commission Secretary Md. Jahangir Alam announced the result. Full results of each asana were obtained from him. In the early morning, he concluded the program by mentioning that the results of 298 constituencies had been announced.

Out of 44 political parties registered with the Election Commission, 28 participated in this election. Awami League’s main political rival BNP and several anti-government parties are not in the election. It was already clear that the Awami League was going to get a big victory as the parties that participated in the polls were not able to compete with the Awami League.