DHAKA: The counting of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) polls is underway and the unofficial results have started coming to banglanews newsroom Tuesday.
According to the unofficial results from six poll centers, ruling Awami League (AL)-supported candidate Anisul Haque with the symbol of ‘Table Clock’ bags 9,519 and BNP-endorsed Tabith Awal with the symbol of ‘Bus’ gets 8,711.
DNCC chief returning officer Shah Alam from his make-shift poll office at Bangabandhu International Convention Centre, announced the result at 7:15pm in the day.
Of total 2,345,374 voters in 48 wards of DNCC, 1,224,701 are male and 1,120,673 female voters.
A total of 281 general councilors, 89 reserved councilors and 16 mayoral candidates are vying in the DNCC elections.
The Election Commission (EC) took votes in 1,093 centers in DNCC area.
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 reported stray incidents of violence, alleging and counter alleging and quitting elections by BNP and some other parties.
BDST: 2038 HRS, APR 28, 2015/Update:2120
RR
** Anisul 1168, Tabith 394