Turnout around 40 percent: CEC

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal estimated that 40% of voters cast their ballots in the 12th parliamentary polls on Sunday (Jan 7).

 

CEC said this while briefing journalists at the EC building in Dhaka around 5:30pm.

“Although we are not sure yet, but on average the turnout was 40%,” he said at a press conference at Nirbachan Bhaban in Dhaka this evening.

“No major incident took place…no death occurred due to the election violence. Although there are allegations, we are looking into those.”

 

He added, “We will not claim that we performed well, but we tried hard.”

The polls closed at 4:00pm.