Bangladeshi general election, 1988

March 3, 1988 (1988-03-03)

All 300 seats in the Jatiyo Sangshad 151 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Hussain Muhammad Ershad	Khaleda Zia	Sheikh Hasina
Party	Jatiya Party (E)	BNP	Awami League
Leader since	1986	1984	1981
Leader's seat	Rangpur	Feni-1	Goplagonj-3
Last election	153 seats	boycotted	76 seats
Seats won	251	boycotted	boycotted
Seat change	98	-	-76
Popular vote	17,680,133	-	-
Percentage	68.4%	-	-

Prime Minister before election

H M Ershad
Jatiya Party (E)

Subsequent Prime Minister

H M Ershad
Jatiya Party (E)

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The Fourth National Parliamentary Elections 1988 (Bengali: চতুর্থ জাতীয় সংসদ নির্বাচন ১৯৮৮) were held in Bangladesh on 3 March 1988.

The elections were boycotted by several major parties, including the Bangladesh Awami League, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the Communist Party of Bangladesh, Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League, the National Awami Party (Muzaffar) and the Workers Party of Bangladesh.^[1] The result was a victory for the Jatiya Party, which won 251 of the 300 seats. Voter turnout was 52.5%.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Jatiya Party	17,680,133	68.4	251	+98
Combined Opposition Party	3,263,340	12.6	19	New
Bangladesh Freedom Party	850,284	3.3	2	New
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (Siraj)	309,666	1.2	3	0
Bangladesh Khilafat Andolan	242,571	0.9	0	-
Ganatantra Basttabayan Party
Jana Dal
Taish Dalio Jote
Independents	3,487,457	16.3	25	–7
Invalid/blank votes	335,620	–	–	–
Total	26,169,071	100	300	0
Registered voters/turnout	49,863,829	52.5	–	–
Source: Nohlen et al.

↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p536 ISBN 0-19-924958-X

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