2024 Bangladeshi general election

General elections are scheduled to be held in Bangladesh in January 2024.[1]

2024 Bangladeshi general election
January 2024
All 300 directly elected seats in the Jatiya Sangsad
151 seats needed for a majority
 
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Leader Sheikh Hasina Khaleda Zia
Party Awami League BNP
Alliance Grand Alliance 7 Party Alliance
Last election 74.63%,
257 seats		 13.06%,
5 seats
Current seats 261 0
 
Leader GM Quader Rezaul Karim
Party JP(E) IAB
Alliance Grand Alliance Independent
Last election 5.22%,
22 seats		 1.47%,
0 seats
Current seats 23 0
Electoral results
Incumbent Prime Minister

Sheikh Hasina
Awami League


Background

The current Sangsad is scheduled to expire on 29 January 2024, as the first session of this parliament sat on 30 January 2019 and the tenure of a parliament lasts five years.[2]

The Awami League won the 2018 general elections and formed the government.[3]

The main opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), demanded that the government hand over power to a neutral caretaker government before the next elections.[4] This has been rejected by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who vowed that "Bangladesh will never allow an unelected government again".[5] Hasina's resistance to a caretaker government arose following the 2006–2008 crisis, during which the a caretaker government assumed military control of the country and arrested a number of political leaders, including Hasina and BNP leader Khaleda Zia.[6]

Electoral system

The 350 members of the Jatiya Sangsad consist of 300 directly elected seats using first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies, and an additional 50 seats reserved for women. The reserved seats are elected proportionally by the elected members. Each parliament sits for a five-year term.[7]

Parties and alliances
Alliance Leader Party Leader Seats contested
By party By alliance
Grand Alliance Sheikh Hasina Awami League Sheikh Hasina
Jatiya Party (Ershad) GM Quader
Workers Party of Bangladesh Rashed Khan Menon
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal Hasanul Haq Inu
Jatiya Party (Manju) Anwar Hossain Manju
Bangladesh Tarikat Federation Syed Najibul Bashar Maizbhandari
Bangladesh Nationalist Front S.M. Abul Kalam Azad
BNP+ Khaleda Zia Bangladesh Nationalist Party Khaleda Zia
Others alliances
None None Islami Andolan Bangladesh Rezaul Karim
Independents None

References
  1. Bangladesh PM Announces General Elections in January 2024 VOA, 9 December 2022
  2. "Jatiya Sangsad - Banglapedia". Banglapedia. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  3. "Get 11th Bangladesh National Election 2018 Results". The Daily Star. 2018-11-14. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
  4. Kamruzzaman, Md. (January 17, 2023). "Bangladesh's main opposition party demands formation of caretaker government ahead of polls". Anadolu Agency. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
  5. "Bangladesh will never allow an unelected government again, says Hasina". BDNews24. February 10, 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
  6. "Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Arrested". NPR. 16 July 2007.
  7. "IPU Parline database: Bangladesh (Jatiya Sangsad), Electoral system". Inter-Parliamentary Union. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
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