2023 Sylhet City Corporation election

2023 Sylhet City Corporation election

21 June 2023
Registered	4,86,605
Turnout	46.51% ( 16.85pp)
Mayoral election
21 June 2023
Nominee Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury Nazrul Islam Babul Party AL JP(E) Popular vote 1,19,991 50,862 Percentage 53.18% 22.54%
Mayor before election Ariful Haque Choudhury BNP Elected Mayor Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury AL
Council election
21 June 2023 56 seats in the Sylhet City Corporation
Party Leader Seats +/– AL Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury 41 +22 BNP Didn't Participate 9 −2 JI — 6 +4 Independent — 0 −4 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2023 Sylhet City Corporation election is an election in Sylhet, Bangladesh, that was held on 21 June 2023 to elect the next mayor & councillors of Sylhet.^[1] In this election, AL candidate achieved a landslide victory.

Schedule

The schedule of the election was announced by the Election Commission of Bangladesh on 29 March 2023.^[2]

Event	Date	Day
Date of Notification	3 April 2023	Monday
Deadline for submission of nomination paper	23 May 2023
Date for scrutiny of nominations	25 May 2023
Appeal against the nomination paper scrutiny	26-28 May 2023
Appeal resolve	29-31 May 2023
Last date for withdrawal of candidatures	1 June 2023
Symbols distribution	2 June 2023
Date of poll & counting	21 June 2023

Candidates

Mayoral election

A total of 7 candidates were contested for the mayoral post.^[3]

Name	Election Symbol		Party	Ref.
Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury	Nouka (Boat)		Bangladesh Awami League	[4][5]
Hafiz Maulana Mahmudul Hasan	Hatpakha (Hand fan)		Islami Andolon Bangladesh
Nazrul Islam Babul	Langol (Plough)		Jatiya Party (Ershad)
Zahirul Alam	Golap ful (Rose)		Zaker Party
Abdul Hanif Kutu	Ghora (Horse)		Independent
Chalah Uddin Rimon	Cricket Bat		Independent
Shah Jahan Mia	Bus		Independent

Council election

In Sylhet, 87 candidates were contested for 14 women-reserved seats and 273 were contested for 42 seats of ward councillors.^[6]

Mayoral election results

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury	Bangladesh Awami League	119,991	53.18
	Nazrul Islam Babul	Jatiya Party (Ershad)	50,862	22.54
	Md. Shah Jahan Mia	Independent	28,688	12.71
	Hafiz Maulana Mahmudul Hasan	Islami Andolan Bangladesh	12,794	5.67
	Abdul Hanif Kutu	Independent	4,296	1.90
	Zahirul Alam	Zaker Party	3,405	1.51
	Mushtaq Ahmed Rauf Mostafa	Independent	2,959	1.31
	Salah Uddin Rimon	Independent	2,648	1.17
Total			225,643	100.00
Valid votes			225,643	99.46
Invalid/blank votes			1,216	0.54
Total votes			226,859	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			487,753	46.51
Source: [1]

Council election Results

Party-wise

2023 SCC council election results (party-wise)

Party		Seats
		Ward Councilors	Reserved Women Councilors	Total Councilors
	Bangladesh Awami League	30	11	41
	Bangladesh Nationalist Party	8	1	9
	Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami	4	2	6
Total		42	14	56

See also

• 2023 elections in Bangladesh

References

1. "Polls to 5 city corporations: AL nominates mayoral candidates". The daily star. 15 April 2023. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
2. "EC announces polls schedule for five city corporations". Dhaka Tribune. 3 April 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
3. "Campaigns begin in Sylhet as candidates allotted symbols". The Business Standard. 2 June 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
4. "Awami League's contender - JaPa or others?". Prothom Alo. 14 April 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
5. "SCC polls: Mayor, councillor candidates get symbols". Dhaka Tribune. 2 June 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
6. "Symbol allotted among 7 mayoral, 360 councillor candidates". newagebd. 2 June 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2023.