Draft:November 2024 Bangladeshi general election

November 2024 Bangladeshi general election

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All 300 directly elected seats in the Jatiya Sangsad
151 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
  AWL
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Leader TBD GM Quader Rashed Khan Menon
Party AL JP(E) WPB
Leader since N/A 14 July 2019 25 January 2009
Leader's seat N/A Rangpur-3 Dhaka-8
Last election 224 seats 11 seats 1 seat

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
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Leader Hasanul Haq Inu Syed Muhammad Ibrahim Khaleda Zia
Party JSD BKP BNP
Leader since 29 December 2008 7 January 2024 10 May 1984
Leader's seat Kushtia-2 Cox's Bazar-1 N/A
Last election 1 seat 1 seat N/A

Prime Minister before election

Muhammad Yunus (caretaker)
Independent

Subsequent Prime Minister

TBD
TBD

An early general election is expected to be held in Bangladesh in November 2024 following the order of parliament dissolution by president Mohammed Shahabuddin.

Background

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The Awami League won 224 seats in the January 2024 election, beginning a fifth term in power. Due to the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement and the subsequent Non-cooperation movement (2024), Sheikh Hasina resigned as Prime Minister of Bangladesh and fled the country to India. President Shahabuddin then proceeded to dissolve parliament.

Electoral system

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The 350 members of the Jatiya Sangsad consist of 300 directly elected seats using first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies, and an additional 50 seats reserved for women. The reserved seats are distributed based on the proportional vote share of the contesting parties. Each parliament sits for a five-year term.