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Former Bangladesh cricket team captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza has won the 12th parliamentary election as Awami League candidate from Narail-2 constituency for the second consecutive time by a huge margin.
He bagged 1,89,102 votes, while his nearest rival Hafizur Rahman from Bangladesh Workers Party secured 4,041 votes in Sunday's polls.
The polling that began at 8:00 am concluded at 4pm without any break amid tight security in 299 out of the country’s 300 constituencies. The counting of votes started immediately after the end of voting.
Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina cast her vote at Dhaka City College in the capital this morning.