Dhaka, Dec 30 : Former Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina''s Awami League-led grand alliance has won a stunning landslide victory in the country's ninth general elections.
The Election Commission (EC) has so far announced "unofficial" results of 295 seats of the 300-seat parliament saying, that Hasina''s alliance has won 229 seats while her arch rival Khaleda Zia''s Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led four-party grouping won only 27 constituencies.
Dhaka, Dec 30 : Former Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina''s Awami League-led grand alliance has won a stunning landslide victory in the country's ninth general elections.
The Election Commission (EC) has so far announced "unofficial" results of 295 seats of the 300-seat parliament saying, that Hasina''s alliance has won 229 seats while her arch rival Khaleda Zia''s Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led four-party grouping won only 27 constituencies.
Dhaka - Bangladesh's Awami League-led alliance of former premier Sheikh Hasina Wazed was heading for a landslide victory in Monday's general elections, according to results coming in to the Election Commission from across the country.
Out of 299 seats, the alliance won the 151 necessary to form a government, and was leading in most of the remaining constituencies. Political analysts said the number of Awami League-led alliance seats in parliament may surpass 200.
Dhaka - Bangladesh's Awami League-led alliance of former premier Sheikh Hasina Wazed is leading the country's general elections on Monday, according to preliminary results coming in from across the country.
Early results from dozens out of 299 parliamentary constituencies reaching the Election Commission shows the Awami League and its allies ahead of prime rival the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance of Khaleda Zia.
A private television channel reported Hasina won by a big margin at her Gopalganj-3 constituency.
Dhaka, Dec 29 : Ninth Parliamentary Elections came to an after Bangladeshis voted today overwhelmingly to elect the ninth Parliament of the country after two years of the emergency rule.
Over 80 percent voters exercised their franchise in the election.
According to Chief Election Commissioner Dr ATM Shamsul Huda, approximately 50 percent votes had been cast till 2pm when he visited poling centres in Dhaka.
"I''m happy over the pace of vote casting and so far the polling across the country is peaceful," he added.
Dhaka - Enthusiastic Bangladeshis cast their vote in a festive mode in a landmark election geared at restoring a democratic system in the South Asian nation after a two years under a military- backed administration.
Barring a few exceptions, the balloting was generally peaceful across the country, ATM Shamsul Huda, head of Bangladesh's Election Commission, said after visiting a number of polling stations in and around the capital Dhaka.
He said he expected voter turnout to be above 75 per cent.
Dhaka, Dec 30 : Former Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina''s Awami League-led grand alliance has won a stunning landslide victory in the country's ninth general elections. 
Dhaka - Bangladesh's Awami League-led alliance of former premier Sheikh Hasina Wazed was heading for a landslide victory in Monday's general elections, according to results coming in to the Election Commission from across the country. 
Dhaka - Bangladesh's Awami League-led alliance of former premier Sheikh Hasina Wazed is leading the country's general elections on Monday, according to preliminary results coming in from across the country. 
Dhaka, Dec 29 : Ninth Parliamentary Elections came to an after Bangladeshis voted today overwhelmingly to elect the ninth Parliament of the country after two years of the emergency rule.
Dhaka - Enthusiastic Bangladeshis cast their vote in a festive mode in a landmark election geared at restoring a democratic system in the South Asian nation after a two years under a military- backed administration.
