Talk:2018 Bangladeshi general election

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Khaleda Zia is barred due to corruption conviction needs a rewrite .Khaleda Zia Cannot Take Part In General Elections: Bangla Attorney-General ,BBC also states The jail sentence may mean the 72-year-old is barred from parliamentary polls due later this year..Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 13:50, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This states Ershad: Jatiya Party will contest in all 300 constituencies Dhaka Tribune.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 08:21, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes of course he will contest! That's not the point! The point is he may not be contesting on his own, instead he might be contesting as part of Hasina's Grand Alliance:

[1]

The infobox is for the seperate (major) alliances, not for two parties who could be colluding.

Though I agree for now that we should keep the status quo as it seems as of late he's had a change of heart:

[2]

Actually on a second reading of the bdnews article it seems the confusion is over what symbol he will use, not what alliance he is in. So I stick to the Dhaka Tribune, Ershad is part of the Grand Alliance.^[1]. Note especially where Quader (AL) says:

"Jatiya Party will be allied with 14-party in the upcoming election and will form the government together," he added.

So unless Quader is lying to make it seem Ershad will be with them, it seems obvious that Ershad is with them. Also Ershad contesting all seats does not necessarily mean he is contesting on his own. (if you read the dhaka tribune article they mention this). ParthikS8 (talk) 17:09, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Jatiya Party is contesting in all 300 seats separately and party contesting separately has to be listed separately Whether they join together after the elections or not is not for us to decide.Parties or alliances which contest the elections separately are listed separately. JaPa in election race, unveils 18 point manifesto Dhaka Tribune they have issued there manifesto.Further the Jatiya Party have contested almost every election 1986,1988,1991,1996 (Jun),2001, and 2014 separately and is the third largest party in Bangladesh Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 17:44, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If they contest separately it should be separate if he contests under grand alliance it should be together.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 18:14, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The election was unfair and biased. Please don't write lies here on Wikipedia. This election has been reported as biased and not accepted by EU and US. Even the majority of people disagree. Shaikh Alimu Rahman 04:34, 2 January 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alimurahman (talk • contribs)

I'm working on getting the voting figures right, which isn't entirely easy since some parties contest on other parties election symbol. But, based strictly on ECB data, the result would look like this;

Sources: [3], [4], [5] --Soman (talk) 00:40, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Now, looking at the seat-sharing of the AL, we find here [6] and [7], we have a list of the non-AL candidates on AL boat symbol. However, it appears that the JP(Manju) candidates in the end opted to use their own election symbol, see [8]. So modifying the results with 5 candidates shifted to WPB, 3 to JASAD, 3 to Bikalpdhara, 2 to Tarikat Federation and 1 to JSD(Ambia), the votes and % would look like this:

--Soman (talk) 20:51, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It is likely that the incumbent government did use instruments of the state to ensure a favourable result, but the use of “The elections were not free and fair” is a sweeping statement and seems rather extreme. AMomen88 (talk) 20:56, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The opinion should not be stated in Wikipedia's voice, so I've attributed it inline. Ali Riaz, the political scientist who characterized it as a "rigged election" is a major figure in the academic study of Bangladeshi politics, so it is WP:DUE to include his viewpoint. The topic of freeness and fairness should be developed further in the body, incorporating the views of other academics, international observers, and the election commission's investigations (which are presumably finished by now). When that is done, summarizing it for the lead will probably produce something more nuanced, along the lines of "These groups assessed the election as free and fair, but this is disputed by these other groups." --Worldbruce (talk) 07:10, 25 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

নূরনবী শেখ 2400:C600:341C:168D:1:0:19A7:AE07 (talk) 14:02, 17 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It seems the 'leader's seat' information has been removed a long time ago, but what was the reason? I just want to know, I mean the info' is also included in Indian general election pages... Zeeshan Y Tariq (talk) 17:28, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Soman, Asianchamp2 and Zeeshan Y Tariq. I noticed there is an inconsistency in the seat figures from the overall results table and the results by constituency table; the overall results table lists independents as winning two seats, but the constituency table lists three independents as winning seats (Rezaul Karim Bablu, Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury and Mohammad Shahid Islam). Any ideas where the error is? Cheers, Number 57 17:13, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, and thank you for inviting me in this discussion. (The absolute answer to your question is in the second paragraph, you can skip to that.) It seems that the overall results table is a bit unclear, as it sums up both the direct and reserved for women seats. The individual constituency table is actually more messed up, as it (in many places) states Jatiya Party candidates as Awami League candidates, lists wrong vote figures, alliance, endorsements etc. And voting figure in the overall results is also unclear as the EC never published a finalised and summarised result, but thanks to Soman as he summed up all the figures from the centerwise result spreedsheet and it is at least in a good shape.

Here= I tried to figure it out about the issue of the inconvenience on the number of independents, and the number of independents won directly is certainly 3, and with Selina Islam in the reserves, the total is 4. So the '2' in overall table is absolutely wrong. And it's probably from Awami League's. Awami won a total 257 seats directly (including Bangladesh JaSaD MP Mayeen Uddin Khan Badal), and 43 in the reserves, so their total is 300. But in the overall table, it is 302. 2 extra here, 2 less there.

By the way, in this occasion I would like to call for helps from editors to pack up and revise the results of the 2018 election, as the 2024 election is over and we would soon adding those results. Zeeshan Y Tariq (talk) 20:13, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Zeeshan Y Tariq – one of the reasons I asked was that I was planning on adding some additional columns to show the split in directly and indirectly-elected seats as below. Based on this source (and deducting one seat from the Awami League for Bangladesh JaSaD and adding one for the delayed election in Gaibandha-3 (won by th the Awami League), is the table below correct? (I have removed all parties without seats for simplicity here). I wasn't sure how you got 257 seats for the Awami League? Cheers, Number 57 15:18, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Party		Votes	%	Seats
				Directly elected	Reserved	Total	+/–
	Awami League	63,523,066	76.17	259	43	302	+29
	Bangladesh Nationalist Party	11,113,253	13.33	6	1	7	+7
	Jatiya Party	4,443,351	5.33	20	4	24	–12
	Workers Party of Bangladesh	646,064	0.77	3	1	4	–2
	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal	610,044	0.73	2	0	2	–3
	Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh	565,940	0.68	2	0	2	+2
	Bangladesh Tarikat Federation	429,955	0.52	1	0	1	–1
	Bangladesh Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal	282,313	0.34	1	0	1	+1
	Jatiya Party (Manju)	182,611	0.22	1	0	1	–1
	Gano Forum	103,535	0.12	2	0	2	+2
	Independents	1,498,152	1.80	3	1	4	–10
Total		83,398,284	100.00	300	50	350	+50