{"id":130910,"date":"2026-02-13T02:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/bangladesh-election-vote-counting-shows-bnp-headed-for-victory\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T02:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:02:49","slug":"bangladesh-election-vote-counting-shows-bnp-headed-for-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/bangladesh-election-vote-counting-shows-bnp-headed-for-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh election vote counting shows BNP headed for victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DHAKA, Feb 13 \u2013 Votes counted so far in Bangladesh show the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) headed for victor y with the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami in second place<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People were voting for a new government and also taking part in a referendum to change the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest from the Election Commission, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies have secured 69 seats; Jamaat-e-Islami and its allies have secured 24 seats; and 3 seats are going to other candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Local media have all projected sweeping wins for the BNP, but their projections on how many seats the party will win significantly differ.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first election held in the country since student-led protests in 2024 ended the 15-year rule of its increasingly autocratic leader, Sheikh Hasina.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 1,400 protesters were killed during the uprising \u2013 with Hasina accused of having directly ordered the crackdown, an allegation she denies.<\/p>\n<p>Hasina\u2019s party, the Awami League, was banned from contesting this election.<\/p>\n<p>An interim government, led by Nobel Peace Price laureate Muhammad Yunus, has led Bangladesh since Hasina fled<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA, Feb 13 \u2013 Votes counted so far in Bangladesh show the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) headed for victor y with the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami in second place People were voting for a new government and also taking part in a referendum to change the constitution. According to the latest from the Election Commission, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}