Voting in Sherpur-3, Bogura-6 by-polls underway

Voting in Sherpur-3 election and Bogura-6 by-polls began on Thursday morning.

Polling in both parliamentary seats started at 7:30AM and will continue until 4:30PM.

In Bogura-6, three candidates are in the race: BNP nominee Rezaul Karim Badsha, Jamaat-e-Islami’s Abidur Rahman, and Bangladesh Development Party (BDP) candidate Al-Amin Talukdar. A total of 4,50,309 voters are expected to cast ballots across 150 polling stations and 835 booths.

In Sherpur-3 (Sreebardi-Jhenaigati), four candidates are contesting: BNP’s Mahmudul Haque Rubel, Jamaat-e-Islami’s Masudur Rahman, independent candidate Aminul Islam, and BASAD (Marxist) nominee Mizanur Rahman. The constituency has 4,09,806 registered voters across 128 centres and 751 booths.

The Sherpur-3 election was previously postponed following the death of a candidate, while the Bogura-6 seat fell vacant after BNP Chairperson and Prime Minister Tarique Rahman relinquished it in accordance with electoral law.