1979 Bangladeshi general election

1979 Bangladeshi general election
← 1973 18 February 1979 1986 →
300 of the 330 seats in the Jatiya Sangsad
151 seats needed for a majority
Registered38,363,858
Turnout51.29% (Decrease 3.62pp)
  First party Second party
 
Leader Ziaur Rahman Asaduzzaman Khan
Party BNP AL
Last election – 293 seats
Seats won 207 39
Seat change New Decrease 256
Popular vote 7,934,236 4,734,277
Percentage 41.17% 24.56%
Senior Minister (acting Prime Minister) before election

Mashiur Rahman
BNP

Subsequent Prime Minister

Shah Azizur Rahman
BNP

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General elections were held in Bangladesh on 18 February 1979. The result was a victory for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which won 207 of the 300 directly elected seats. Voter turnout was 51%.[1][2] The Awami League became the main opposition party after winning 39 seats.[3]

With almost all parties participating, the elections were deemed credible by observers.[4]

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen; Florian Grotz; Christof Hartmann (2001). Elections in Asia: A data handbook. Vol. I. p. 535. ISBN 0-19-924958-X.
  2. ^ Government of Bangladesh (1991). A Background Paper on Bangladesh Parliamentary Elections. Dhaka: Press Information Department (Handout No. 429).
  3. ^ Bangladesh 1979 Inter-Parliamentary Union
  4. ^ Khan, Mohammad Mohabbat; Zafarullah, Habib Mohammad (October 1979). "The 1979 Parliamentary Elections in Bangladesh". Asian Survey. 19 (10): 1023–1036. doi:10.2307/2643851. JSTOR 2643851.