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2026 election controversy

During the 2026 Bangladeshi general election, initially, NTV announced that Mamunul Haque from Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis had won the constituency; however, the announcement was later reported as an error.

Mamunul Haque filed a complaint indicating that significant irregularities during vote counting compromised the legitimacy of the final result. His complaint focused on a flawed ballot design and procedural manipulation during counting. It was witnessed that numerous ballots layout featuring nine candidates across ten slots with one blank space caused widespread voter confusion. Mamamunul's name and mark appeared beside the empty slots, leading many voters to mistakenly stamp the blank box. As a result, an estimated 1,200 votes were cancelled across 50 centres, with the total potentially reaching around 3,000 across all centres, a number exceeding the official margin of defeat.^[3][4]

Mamunul also reported signs of tampered result sheets, overwritten numbers, removal of polling agents, and irregularities such as unsigned or pre‑signed counting forms. Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami described this as coordinated vote engineering that obstructed an accurate reflection of voter intent, which later caused protests accoss the country.^[5][6]

Elections in the 2010s