BN Report
The ruling Awami League candidate running with the symbol of boat secured at least 220 seats while the independents bagged 58, according Election Commission data on Monday.
With the victory, AL president Sheikh Hasina is set to be prime minister for the fourth consecutive term.
Bangladesh held general elections on Sunday to elect 299 members of parliament. Voting at a constituency was postponed due to the death of a candidate.
Over 260 candidates from the ruling AL party joined the national elections. The voting began at 8 a.m. and concluded at 4 p.m. in over 42,000 voting centers nationwide.
In Bangladesh, a party can form a government if it manages to clinch 151 seats of parliament in total.
The ruling AL party rose to power with a landslide election victory in 2009 and won its second term in 2014 and the third term in 2018.
There are nearly 120 million registered voters in the South Asian country.
The EC said earlier that 27 percent of the votes were cast in the first seven hours from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday.
AL President and Prime Minister Hasina cast her vote at the Dhaka City College polling center at around 8:03 a.m., according to media reports.
To facilitate the voting process, a public holiday was declared across the country.
