DHAKA: The counting of the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) polls is underway and the unofficial results have started coming to the banglanews news room Tuesday.

According to the unofficial results from fifteen centers out of 889 centers, ruling Awami League-endorsed candidate Sayeed Khokon has bagged 6,317 votes while BNP-backed candidate Mirza Abbas got 4,471 votes.

The results were received from the DSCC Chief Returning Officer Mihir Sarwar Morshed’s make-shift office at Mahanagar Natyamancha at Gulistan in city.

Of total 1,870,753 voters in 57 wards of DSCC, 1,009,286 are male and 861,467 female voters.

A total of 390 general councilors, 97 reserved councilors and 20 mayoral candidates are vying in the DSCC elections.

Earlier in the day, voting of DSCC, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) polls started at 8:00am and ended at 4:00pm amid stray incidents of violence, alleging and counter alleging and quitting elections by BNP and some other parties.

BDST:1905 HRS, APRupdate: 1943 HRS
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