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Upto May 2004

Elections      Election 2001    |    Previous Elections   |    Election Observers    |    Result Statistics  
                              City Corporation Election 2002

Key Statistics

The Parliamentary Elections
(i) Organization :

Date of
Poll		 No. of Voters % Votes
Cast 		% invalid
votes 		No. of
Polling
Stations		 No. of
Polling
Booths		 No. of
Polling
Officials
Male Female Total
7 March 1973 N/A N/A 3,52,05,642 55.61 1.36 15,084 59,113 1,92,423
28 Feb. 1979 2,00,34,717 1,83,29,141 3,83,638,58 51.29 1.05 21,905 67,150 2,23,355
7 May 1986 2,52,24,385 2,26,52,594 4,78,76,979 66.31 0.79 23,279 89,816 2,92,727
3 March 1988 2,63,79,944 2,34,83,885 4,98,63,829 51.81 - - - 2,83,237
27 Feb. 1991 3,30,40,757 2,91,40,986 6,21,81,743 55.45 0.60 24,154 11,277 3,60,985
15 Feb. 1996 2,37,65,752 2,32,38,204 5,61,49,182 26.54 0.22 21,106 98,710 3,14,480
12 Jun. 1996 2,87,59,994 2,79,56,941 5,67,16,935 74.96 0.82 25,957 1,14,749 3,70,204
01 Oct. 2001 3,86,84,972 3,63,15,684 7,50,00,656 75.59 0.80 29,978 1,49,288 4,77,842


(ii) Participants :

Year of
election		 No. of
Parties/Alliances
Contested		 No. of
Candidates
Contested		 Candidates
with Party
Affiliation		 No. of
Independent
Candidates		 % Vote
Polled by the
Parties		 % of Votes
polled by
the
Independent
1973 14 1,209 1,089    120 50.74 2.81
1979 29 2,547 2,125    442 45.12 5.12
1986 28 1,980 1,527    453 49.93 9.65
1988 8 1,192    978     214 N/A N/A
1991 75 2,787 2,363 2,363 52.44 2.41
Feb. 1996 41 1,450     993      457 23.05 3.27
June 1996 81 2,574 2,293      281 74.00 0.79
October 2001 54 1,935 1,451      484 74.82 0.67


Local Bodies Elections :
Local Bodies Elections Date of Election No. of Union
Parishad/Pourashava/City Corporation/Hill District Council/Upzila Parishads		 No. of Voters
a) Union Parishad :
(1) 1973
(2) 1977
(3) 1983-84
(4) 1988
(5) 1992
(6) 1997
(7) 2003
         19 Dec. - 30 Dec. 1973
         13 Jan. - 31 Jan. 1977
         27 Dec.1983 - 10 Jan.1984
         10 Feb. 1988
         22 Jan. - 06 Feb. 1992
         01 Dec. - 31 Dec. 1997
         25 Jan. - 16 Mar. 2003


4,400





-
-
4,72,30,000
4,70,00,000
4,99,00,000
4,82,00,000
5,92,62,289
b) : Pourashava
(1) 1973
(2) 1977
(3) 1984
(4) 1989
(5) 1993
(6) 1999
(7) 2004
         December 31, 1973
         August 13, 1977
         February 11, 1984
         January 28, 1989
         January 30, 1993
         23-25 February 1999
         05-10 May 2004		 -
79
77
77
90

-
26,00,990
21,86,910
-
27,42,460

c) City Corporation :
(1) 1988 (Municipal Corporation)
(2) 1994 (City Corporation)
(3) 2000 (City Corporation)
(4) 2002 (City Corporation)
(5) 2003 (City Corporation)

         March 03, 1988

         January 30, 1994
         January 03, 2000
         April 25, 2002
         March 20, 2003
-


Chittagong
Dhaka, Rajshahi, Khulna
Barisal, Sylhet
N/A

28,71,161

34,63,498
3,47,646
d) Hill District Council :
(1) 1989
        August 25, 1989
3
-
e) Upzila Parishads :
(1) 1985
(2) 1990		         
May 16 and May 20, 1985
        March 14-25, 1990
460
4760
4,57,86,351
4,59,00,000 (Appx.)
Key Statistics