Bangladesh election live results 2026: By the numbers
Vote counting is continuing in Bangladesh, and local media are reporting results based on provisional tallies announced by the top electoral official for districts, known as a returning officer.
The official results website for the Bangladesh Election Commission remains inaccessible, however. The Election Commission is expected to issue its announcement at some point in the coming hours.
The official results will be updated in the chart below as soon as they are available.
When will the results be known?
The official process takes time because results are first recorded on paper at each polling station, signed by officials and candidate agents, and then posted publicly. Copies are then transported under security to the constituency returning officer, who compiles all centre returns, adds eligible postal ballots, and uploads consolidated totals to the EC system.
In previous elections, unofficial results have typically begun to emerge early the following morning.
Bangladesh Election Commission (EC) officials have told local media, however, that the vote count may take longer this time as it will involve both the white parliamentary voting ballot and the pink ballots for the referendum on the July National Charter.
There are also more parties and candidates this time.
Past election results
Bangladesh’s electoral history over the past two decades has been predominantly shaped by the Awami League, which came to power in 2009 after a significant defeat of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which had ruled from 2001 to 2006.
In the 2001 election, the Awami League suffered a major defeat, winning just 62 seats, while the BNP secured a commanding majority with 193 seats. That election marked the last clear transfer of power between the two main parties.
The balance shifted decisively in 2008, when the Awami League-led Grand Alliance returned to power in a landslide. Since then, the party has consolidated its dominance.
In 2014, with the BNP absent from the contest, Hasina’s Awami League again won in a landslide.
The party further strengthened its grip in the 2018 election, securing 300 seats, while the BNP was reduced to just seven seats, its weakest performance on record. Thousands of BNP leaders were arrested in the lead-up to the elections. The Jamaat was banned in 2015, and so it couldn’t contest. International observers and opposition groups described the election as neither free nor fair.
In the most recent 2024 election, the Awami League won 272 seats, maintaining a parliamentary majority. The BNP again boycotted, amid deepening repression of opposition leaders. The Jamaat was still banned.
How does voting work in Bangladesh?
Votes are being cast across 42,761 polling centres in 64 districts for 300 parliamentary constituencies, according to the ECB. There are 50 seats allotted for women’s representation which are distributed based on proportional representation.
According to the final voter list released by the EC in November 2025, there are 127,711,793 registered voters including 64,825,361 men, 62,885,200 women and 1,232 third-gender voters, all aged 18 and above.
This is the first time postal voting has been facilitated, benefitting about 15 million overseas workers whose remittances form a vital part of the Bangladeshi economy.
