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2023 Sylhet City Corporation election Registered 4,86,605 Turnout 46.51% (pp )
Mayoral election
Council election
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
The 2023 Sylhet City Corporation election is an election in Sylhet , Bangladesh, that was held on 21 June 2023 to elect the next mayor & councillors of Sylhet.[ 1]
The schedule of the election was announced by the Election Commission of Bangladesh on 29 March 2023.[ 2]
Event
Date
Day
Date of Notification
3 April 2023
Monday
Deadline for submission of nomination paper
23 May 2023
Date for scrutiny of nominations
25 May 2023
Appeal against the nomination paper scrutiny
26-28 May 2023
Appeal resolve
29-31 May 2023
Last date for withdrawal of candidatures
1 June 2023
Symbols distribution
2 June 2023
Date of poll & counting
21 June 2023
A total of 7 candidates were contested for the mayoral post.[ 3]
In Sylhet, 87 candidates were contested for 14 women-reserved seats and 273 were contested for 42 seats of ward councillors.[ 6]
Mayoral election results [ edit ] Candidate Party Votes % Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury Bangladesh Awami League 119,991 53.18 Nazrul Islam Babul Jatiya Party (Ershad) 50,862 22.54 Md. Shah Jahan Mia Independent 28,688 12.71 Hafiz Maulana Mahmudul Hasan Islami Andolan Bangladesh 12,794 5.67 Abdul Hanif Kutu Independent 4,296 1.90 Zahirul Alam Zaker Party 3,405 1.51 Mushtaq Ahmed Rauf Mostafa Independent 2,959 1.31 Salah Uddin Rimon Independent 2,648 1.17 Total 225,643 100.00 Valid votes 225,643 99.46 Invalid/blank votes 1,216 0.54 Total votes 226,859 100.00 Registered voters/turnout 487,753 46.51 Source: [1]
Council election Results [ edit ]
16.85pp)
Bangladesh portal 
