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2018 Sylhet City Corporation election

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2018 Sylhet City Corporation election

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Registered3,18,138
Turnout63.36%
Mayoral election
30 July 2018
 
Nominee Ariful Haque Choudhury Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran
Party BNP AL
Popular vote 92,588 86,392
Percentage 47.74%[1] 44.54%

Mayor before election

Ariful Haque Choudhury
BNP

Elected Mayor

Ariful Haque Choudhury
BNP

Council election
30 July 2018
36 seats in the Sylhet City Corporation
Party Leader Seats +/–
AL Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran 19 +6
BNP Ariful Haque Choudhury 11 −6
Jamaat-e-Islami Ehsanul Mahbub 2 0
Independent 4 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2018 election for mayor of Sylhet City Corporation was held on 30 July 2018. Sylhet is a city in Bangladesh. The result was again a victory for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate Ariful Haque Choudhury.[2]

Mayoral election results

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CandidatePartyVotes%
Ariful Haque ChoudhuryBangladesh Nationalist Party92,58847.74
Badar Uddin Ahmed KamranBangladesh Awami League86,39244.54
Ehsanul Mahbub JubayerBangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami10,9545.65
Moazzem HossainIslami Andolan Bangladesh2,1951.13
Md. Abu JafarSocialist Party of Bangladesh9090.47
Badruzzaman SalimIndependent5920.31
Ehsanul Haque TaherIndependent3140.16
Total193,944100.00
Valid votes193,94496.21
Invalid/blank votes7,6333.79
Total votes201,577100.00
Registered voters/turnout318,13863.36
Source: [1]

Council election results

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Party-wise

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2018 SCC council election results (party-wise)
Party Seats
Ward Councilors Reserved Women Councilors Total Councilors
Bangladesh Awami League 14 5 19
Bangladesh Nationalist Party 9 2 11
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami 2 2
Independent 2 2 4
Total 27 9 36

References

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  1. ^ "সিলেটের মেয়র হলেন আরিফুল হক". Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  2. ^ "Sylhet mayor resumes office". newagebd.net. Retrieved 2018-08-08.