2018 Sylhet City Corporation election

Mayoral election in Bangladesh

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Registered

3,18,138

Turnout

63.36%

Mayoral election

30 July 2018

Mayor before election

Ariful Haque Choudhury
BNP

Elected Mayor

Ariful Haque Choudhury
BNP

Council election

30 July 2018
36 seats in the Sylhet City Corporation

Party	Leader	Seats	+/–
AL	Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran	19	+6
BNP	Ariful Haque Choudhury	11	−6
Jamaat-e-Islami	Ehsanul Mahbub	2	0
Independent	—	4	0

This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

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The 2018 election for mayor of Sylhet City Corporation was held on 30 July 2018. Sylhet is a city in Bangladesh. The result was again a victory for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate Ariful Haque Choudhury.^[2]

Mayoral election results


Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Ariful Haque Choudhury	Bangladesh Nationalist Party	92,588	47.74
	Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran	Bangladesh Awami League	86,392	44.54
	Ehsanul Mahbub Jubayer	Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami	10,954	5.65
	Moazzem Hossain	Islami Andolan Bangladesh	2,195	1.13
	Md. Abu Jafar	Socialist Party of Bangladesh	909	0.47
	Badruzzaman Salim	Independent	592	0.31
	Ehsanul Haque Taher	Independent	314	0.16
Total			193,944	100.00

Valid votes			193,944	96.21
Invalid/blank votes			7,633	3.79
Total votes			201,577	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			318,138	63.36
Source: [1]

2018 SCC council election results (party-wise)
Party		Seats

Party		Ward Councilors	Reserved Women Councilors	Total Councilors
	Bangladesh Awami League	14	5	19
	Bangladesh Nationalist Party	9	2	11
	Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami	2	—	2
	Independent	2	2	4
Total		27	9	36

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