The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won a majority of more than two-thirds of the seats in parliamentary polls, the Election Commission said on Friday.
Election Commission figures said the BNP alliance had won 212 seats, compared with 77 for the Islamist-led Jamaat-e-Islami alliance, Commission senior secretary Akhtar Ahmed told reporters.
Turnout was 59 percent. A referendum on a sweeping democratic charter was endorsed by 60 percent of voters.
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