2018 Barishal City Corporation election

The 2018 Barishal City Corporation election was an election in Barisal, Bangladesh, held on 30 July 2018 to elect the next Mayor of Barisal. Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah was elected as second mayor of the Barishal City Corporation in August 2018.

2018 Barishal City Corporation election
30 July 2018
Mayoral election
 
Nominee Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah Mujibur Rahman Sarwar
Party AL BNP
Popular vote 1,09,803 13,041
Percentage 78.91% 9.37%
Mayor before election

Ahsan Habib Kamal
BNP

 Elected Mayor

Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah
AL

Council election
Party Seats +/–
AL 23
BNP 4
Independent 2
JP(E) 1
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Candidates

Mayoral election
Name   Party Ref.
Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah Bangladesh Awami League [1]
Mujibur Rahman Sarwar Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Obaidur Rahman Mahbub Islami Andolon Bangladesh
Md Iqbal Hossain Jatiya Party (Ershad)
Abul Kalam Azad Communist Party of Bangladesh
Manisha Chakrabarty Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dal

Incidents

Before the elections, hundreds of Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists were detained.[2]

BNP candidate Sarwar withdrew before the voting was completed alleging irregularities with the voting.[3]

A mayoral candidate, Manisha Chakraborty of BSD, was assaulted as she protested snatching of ballot papers by AL supporters at a polling station in ward-17 in Barisal.[4]

Results

Mayoral election result

Abdullah received 107,353 votes while his nearest rival, Mazibor Rahman Sarwar of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, received 13,135 votes.[5]

Barisal Mayoral Election 2018
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AL Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah 1,09,803
BNP Mujibur Rahman Sarwar 13,041
Majority 96,762
Turnout 1,39,151
Registered electors 2,41,959
AL gain from BNP

Council election results
2023 Barishal council election results (party-wise)[6]
Party Seats
Ward Councilors Reserved Women Councilors Total Councilors
Bangladesh Awami League 23 —
Bangladesh Nationalist Party-BNP 4 —
Independent(s) 2
Jatiya Party-JaPa (Ershad) 1
Total 30

Aftermath

The election was boycotted by the candidates of Communist Party of Bangladesh and Islami Andolon Bangladesh who alleged vote rigging.[7]

They demanded the Election Commission postpone the polls.[8]

New elected mayor Abdullah was sworn in office by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Prime Minister's Office in Dhaka.[9]

References
  1. "City polls: Awami League wins Rajshahi, Barishal, results postponed in Sylhet". Dhaka Tribune. 31 July 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  2. "An uneven battlefield". The Daily Star. 2018-08-02. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  3. "BNP, CPB, IAB boycott Barisal city polls". The Daily Star. 30 July 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  4. "Elections in 3 Cities: AL wins 2, irregularities rule". The Daily Star. 31 July 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  5. "Sadiq Abdullah of AL bags eight times more votes than BNP's Sarwar in Barishal mayor race". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  6. "বরিশালে কাউন্সিলর পদে আ.লীগ ২৩, বিএনপি ৪". Dhaka Times (in Bengali). 31 July 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  7. "BCC polls: Serniabat leads by huge margin". The Daily Star. 2018-07-31. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  8. "City polls: Awami League wins Rajshahi, Barishal, results postponed in Sylhet". Dhaka Tribune. 31 July 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  9. "New Barishal mayor Sadiq Abdullah sworn in". The Daily Star. 2018-10-22. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
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