Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secured 49.97%, while Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami gained 31.76% of total votes cast in the 13th parliamentary election held on February 12 last. Besides, National Citizen Party-NCP obtained 3.05percent votes, Islami Andolan Bangladesh pocketed 2.70% votes, Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish gained 2.09% and Jatiya Party got only 0.89%, according to the statistics of the Election Commission. In the election, 274 independent contestants bagged 5.79% votes. A total of 77,695,023 votes (out of 127 million voters) were cast in the 299 constituencies (except Sherpur-3) in the referendum and the national election held on Thursday last. But the EC released unofficial election results of 297 constituencies on Friday last and kept the result of Chattogram-2 and 4 withheld in line with the court orders.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 15, 2026 15:10 UTC