DHAKA: The Wednesday's municipal elections recorded a huge turnout as around 73.91 percent of voters headed to the polling centers countrywide to cast their votes.

Election Commission (EC) has prepared a report after analyzing the results on Thursday.

EC Joint Secretary Jesmin Tuli confirmed the matter to banglanews adding, the calculation was done excluding results of 50 vote centers in 19 municipalities.

4,483,760 voters out of 6,063,729 cast ballots which is 73.91pc of the total voters.

Ruling Awami League (AL) candidates won 177 mayoral posts while BNP candidates bagged 22, Awami League rebel candidates 18, Jatiya Party (JP) one and others nine as unofficial results of 227 municipalities of the Wednesday’s polls poured in the newsroom of banglanews.

However, independent candidates won 25 mayoral posts.

Voting in 234 municipalities across the country was held from 8:00am to 4:00pm on Wednesday (December 30) amid sporadic incidents.

BDST: 1520 HRS, DEC 31, 2015
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** AL 177, BNP 22, AL rebel 18, others 10