Jamaat’s surge reshaped the contest, but constituency arithmetic and network power determined the outcome.
Jamaat recorded historic gains and voters punished the old order, but first-past-the-post maths, patronage networks and political familiarity ultimately returned the BNP to power.
Journalist and analyst based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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In the end, the 13th parliamentary election in Bangladesh was not a revolution. It was a reckoning.
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Official results yet to be announced in the first vote following a 2024 student-led uprising that ousted Sheikh Hasina.
Official results yet to be announced in the first vote following a 2024 student-led uprising that ousted Sheikh Hasina.
Voting was largely peaceful in an election seen as a test of Bangladesh’s democracy after years of political turmoil under…
Official results yet to be announced in the first vote following a 2024 student-led uprising that ousted Sheikh Hasina.
Official results yet to be announced in the first vote following a 2024 student-led uprising that ousted former PM.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party led by Rahman has won a historic majority in the first elections after the 2024 uprising.
