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Polling ends peacefully
DHAKA, Dec 30, 2018 (BSS) – Polling of the 11th Jatiya Sangsad elections ended at 4pm peacefully amid a festive mood all across the country.
Men and women voters cast their ballots all day after the voting began at 8am in different polling centers in the country.
Though the voter turnout was little low in the morning due to cold weather, but the number rose sharply with the passing of time.
A total of 1,861 candidates were vying for the polls. Among them, 1,733 are from political parties and 128 independents.
A total of 10, 42, 38,677 voters, including 5, 25, 72,365 male and 5,16,66,312 female, were scheduled to cast their votes at 206,477 polling booths of the 40,183 voting centers in 299 constituencies across the country.
The EC has taken votes using Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) at all polling booths in six constituencies for the first time. The constituencies’ are – Dhaka-6 and 13, Chattogram-9, Rangpur-3, Khulna-2 and Satkhira-2.
About 608,000 members of law enforcement agencies, 66 returning officers, performed their responsibilities to conduct the election across the country.
A total of 4,0183 presiding officers, 20, 7,312 assistant presiding officers and 4,14,624 polling officers were appointed for conducting the election while about 1,328 executive magistrates had been deployed and 640 judicial magistrates worked in 122 electoral inquiry committees during the polls.
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