The New Nation - Internet Edition

Our Correspondent, Barisal

Six out of 10 mayoral candidates on Monday's Barisal City Corporation election, including the four party alliance backed candidates will lose their deposit money.

A candidate must get at least one-eighth of the total votes cast to get his/her deposit back, said Manirul Islam, returning officer in the BCC election and also deputy election commissioner in charge.

According to information available at the local returning office, a total of 1, 43,953 out of the 1, 79,293 voters cast their vote in 471 booths of 91 polling centers. Out of votes cast, 3,113 were cancelled. Shawkat Hossain Hiron bagged 46,796 votes and his nearest rival Sharfuddin Santu 46,208 votes.

Of the other mayoral candidates, Ahsan Habib Kamal, the expelled city BNP president supported by a faction of the BNP-led alliance and a faction of the Jatiya Party, bagged 26,416 votes and former district BNP secretary Ebaidul Huq Chan, supported by a faction of the BNP-led alliance, won 19,626 votes.

The rest six candidates including district Communist Party secretary AK Azad 885 votes, former joint district judge Syed Shahidul 807 votes, former Jatiya Party leader Kabiruddin Hannu 672 votes, businessman Rafiqul Islam Russel 281 votes and Jahirul Huq 148 votes in the elections, will lose their deposit money, local EC sources said.