NEW DELHI, Feb 2026 : The Bangladesh elections show one seat won by the “BJP”, though it is not India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. It is Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) whose candidate secured 1,05,543 votes, defeating his nearest rival, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami candidate Md Nazrul Islam, who received 75,337 votes.
The acronym may sound familiar, but this BJP has nothing to do with India. In Bangladesh’s 13th General Elections, the Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) secured a single seat, with Andaleeve Rahman Partho winning from the Bhola-1 constituency.
According to results declared by the Election Commission (EC) in 297 seats, the BNP and its allies bagged 212 seats. The BNP alone won 209 seats.
Among its allies, Ganosamhati Andolan, Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP), and Gono Odhikar Parishad secured one seat each.
On the other hand, Jamaat and its allies secured 77 seats. As per the latest results released by the EC on Friday, Jamaat won 68 seats, while the National Citizen Party (NCP) secured six seats.
A total of 50 political parties contested the polls with 2,028 candidates, including 273 independents. The BNP fielded the highest number of candidates, 291. Besides, 83 female candidates contested the elections.
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