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Jatiya Party's candidate Mostafizar Rahman Mostafa has been unofficially declared winner in the mayoral polls of Rangpur City Coporation bagging 160,489 votes.
His nearest rival, ruling Awami League's Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu, got 62,400 votes. BNP's Kawsar Zaman Babla obtained 35,136 votes.
The results were announced from the control room set up in the northern city’s Police Community Hall.
Awami League conceded defeat while BNP rejected the election results outright.
The city has a total 393,894 voters - 196,256 male and 197,638 female.
Although the turnout was 46 per cent voters till the afternoon, returning officer Subhash Chandra Sarker said nearly 70 per cent voters cast their votes.
Earlier, chief election commissioner KM Nurul Huda at a news briefing in Dhaka said the commission was ‘satisfied’ as the voting was ‘fair’ and held in a festive mood.
The Awami League and Jatiya Party were satisfied although BNP alleged the two allies ‘engineered the election as part of a bigger conspiracy,’ report agencies, private television channels.