{"iso":"BD","name":"Bangladesh","flag":"\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde9","vote":"Jatiya Sangsad vote \u00b7 baseline forecast","model":"baseline","updated":"2026-02-12","source":"2026 election result, official count","credit":"Shows the February 2026 general election vote, official results as published by the Election Commission of Bangladesh. The vote was the first since the 2024 uprising and was held with the Awami League barred from contesting, while Jamaat-e-Islami and the National Citizen Party alleged engineering in some seats. The next election is due in 2031.","shares":{"BNP":50.0,"JI":31.8,"NCP":3.1,"OTH":15.2},"polls":[],"parties":{"BNP":{"name":"Bangladesh Nationalist Party","color":"#0087DC"},"JI":{"name":"Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami","color":"#32CD32"},"NCP":{"name":"National Citizen Party","color":"#D4443C"},"OTH":{"name":"Others and independents","color":"#888888"}},"primer":{"system":"Parliamentary republic","head_of_state":"President Mohammed Shahabuddin","head_of_government":"Prime Minister Tarique Rahman","legislature":"Jatiya Sangsad, unicameral, 300 directly elected members plus reserved women's seats, serving five-year terms.","electoral_system":"Members are elected by first-past-the-post in single-member constituencies. A referendum on the July Charter constitutional reforms was held alongside the 2026 vote.","government_now":"The BNP under Tarique Rahman won 209 of the 297 seats declared in February 2026, a two-thirds landslide with its allies, and formed the first elected government since the uprising.","context":"Youth-led protests toppled Sheikh Hasina in August 2024 and an interim government under Muhammad Yunus ran the country until the election. Jamaat-e-Islami became the main opposition with 68 seats, its best result ever, while the ousted Awami League was excluded from the ballot.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"BNP":["Bangladesh Nationalist Party","","Centre-right, Bangladeshi-nationalist party and historic rival of the Awami League; led by Tarique Rahman, it won a two-thirds landslide in February 2026 and now governs."],"JI":["Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami","","The country's main Islamist party, suppressed and banned under Sheikh Hasina; rehabilitated after the 2024 uprising, it took its best-ever result and is now the main opposition."],"NCP":["National Citizen Party","","Youth reformist party formed in 2025 out of the student movement that toppled Hasina in 2024; anti-establishment, it holds only a handful of seats."],"OTH":["Others and independents","","Smaller Islamist and reformist parties (Islami Andolan, Khelafat Majlis, Gono Odhikar) plus independents; the once-dominant Awami League was barred from the ballot."]},"seats_now":{"chamber":"Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament)","as_of":"2026 election","total":300,"seats":{"BNP":209,"JI":68,"NCP":6,"OTH":14}},"has_geo":true,"geo_meta":{"kind":"admin1","source":"Natural Earth 10m admin-1 states/provinces (nvkelso/natural-earth-vector), retrieved 2026-07-02","note":"Region set and any internationally-disputed territories follow the Natural Earth source dataset. Far overseas/outlying territories may fall outside the primary map frame."},"next_election":{"date":"2031","title":"Bangladeshi general election","chamber":"Jatiya Sangsad","type":"expected"}}