Zakaria Taher- File Photo

DHAKA, Feb 13, 2026 (BSS) – Zakaria Taher of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has been unofficially elected from Cumilla-8 constituency in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad election.

He secured 1, 69,178 votes with the party’s sheaf of paddy symbol while his nearest rival Md Shafiqul Alam Helal of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, contesting with the weighing scale symbol, bagged 45,091 votes.

In the constituency, 1, 33,590 votes were cast in favour of ‘Yes’ in the referendum, while 68,970 votes were cast against ‘No’.

The results were announced at the Result Collection and Dissemination Centre at Nirbachan Bhaban in capital's Agargaon area today.