Elections in Bangladesh

Elections in Bangladesh gives information on election and election results in Bangladesh. An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office. It is the mechanism by which a democracy fills elective offices in the legislature, and sometimes the executive and judiciary, and in which electorates choose local government officials.

See election for a more comprehensive discussion and the List of democracy and elections-related topics for an overview on related topics.

Bangladesh elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The House of the Nation (Jatiya Samsada) has 330 members, 300 members elected for a five year term in single-seat constituencies. The president is elected by the National Parliament. Bangladesh has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.