BNP candidate Monirul Haque Sakku has been re-elected mayor of Comilla city.
He bagged 68,948 votes with the party’s electoral symbol ‘paddy sheaf’ while his nearest candidate Awami League’s Anjum Sultana Sima won 57,863 votes with the ‘boat’ symbol of the ruling party in 101 of 103 centres.
The Election Commission announced the results from its control room set up at the Town Hall on Thursday.
Voting at two centres with about 5,000 votes was suspended due to disorder. That will not affect Sakku’s victory with a margin of 11,085 votes.
Sakku, who defeated Sima’s father Afzal Khan in the last election to the city corporation in 2012, however, alleged that his supporters were barred from entering the polling stations.
“I would have secured 120,000 votes, if 170,000 votes had been cast,” he said after taking an early lead.
Sima conceded defeat and pledged to work with the new mayor for the next five-year term.
Though the Election Commission expected the turnout to hover around 80 percent, it has not crossed 65 percent.
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