February 1996 Bangladeshi general election
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300 of the 330 seats in the Jatiya Sangsad 151 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||
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Registered | 56,149,182 | ||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 21% 34.4 pp | ||||||||||||||||||
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General elections were held in Bangladesh on 15 February 1996. They were boycotted by most opposition parties, and saw voter turnout drop to just 21%.[1] The result was a victory for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which won 278 of the 300 directly elected seats.[1] This administration was short-lived, however, only lasting 12 days[2] before the installation of caretaker government and fresh elections held in June.
Background
In March 1994, controversy over a parliamentary by-election, which the
Results
Incumbent Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's BNP was re-elected for the second term after a landslide victory, but in voting boycotted and denounced as unfair by the three main opposition parties. The voter turnout was the lowest in Bangladesh's parliamentary electoral history at only 21%.[1] Following the election, the President invited Zia to form a government, but this administration was short-lived, lasting only 12 days.[2]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
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General | Reserved | Total | +/– | |||||
Bangladesh Nationalist Party | 278 | 30 | 308 | +140 | ||||
Bangladesh Freedom Party | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Independents | 10 | 0 | 10 | +7 | ||||
Vacant | 11 | 0 | 11 | – | ||||
Total | 300 | 30 | 330 | 0 | ||||
Total votes | 11,776,481 | – | ||||||
Registered voters/turnout | 56,149,182 | 20.97 | ||||||
Source: Nohlen et al., Kumar Panday |
Aftermath
An immediate series of
References
- ^ ISBN 0-19-924958-X
- ^ a b c "Tenure of All Parliaments". 12 August 2018. Archived from the original on 12 August 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
- ^ a b c d Islam, Syed Serajul (2001). "Elections and politics in post-Ershad era in Bangladesh" (PDF). Asian and African Studies. 10 (1): 160–173. Retrieved 30 December 2018.