Tarique Rahman wins Dhaka-17 and Bogura-6, BNP wins back Khaleda Zia’s seat after a decade | World News
Bangladesh National Party Chairperson Tarique Rahman talks to media after casting his vote during the national parliamentary elections in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)
BNP chairman Tarique Rahman has been unofficially declared elected from Dhaka-17 and Bogura-6, according to provisional results.
In Dhaka-17, Rahman, contesting with the party’s sheaf of paddy symbol, secured 72,699 votes. His nearest rival, Dr Khaleduzzaman of Jamaat-e-Islami, who ran with the scales symbol, received 68,300 votes. Rahman won the seat a margin of 4,399 votes.
In Bogura-6, Rahman polled 216,284 votes. His closest contender, Abidur Rahman Sohel of Jamaat-e-Islami, secured 97,626 votes. The margin of victory in the constituency was 118,658 votes.
Khaleda Zia’s Bogura-7 back with BNP
BNP candidate Milton Morshed secured the Bogura-7 seat in a thumping victory over his Jamaat-e-Islami rival Golam Rabbani. He won 2,62,501 votes, while Rabbani raked in 1,15,184 votes. The seat was won Khaleda Zia in every election from 1991 to 2008. Bogura-7 eventually went out of the BNP’s hands in 2014, when Zia did not contest it.
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The BNP had fielded Khaleda Zia from the constituency again this election. At the time, Zia was in hospital. She passed away a few days before the elections and the BNP fielded its Gabtali Upazila unit president Morshed.
Former Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman was born in Bogura’s Gabtoli Upazila.
