The Awami League-backed candidate bagged the chairman post of the newly-formed Tarakanda upazila in Mymensingh yesterday.
“Sharif Ahmed, son of late AL lawmaker Md Shamsul Haque, achieved 66,948 votes while his nearest competitor, BNP-backed Motahar Hossain Talukder, received 49,609 votes,” said Returning Officer, also Additional Deputy Commissioner of Mymensingh, Dr Suvash Chandra Biswas. The number of voters in the upazila was 188,655 split 95,193 male and 93, 462 female, sources said. The result from 72 centres in 10 unions of the upazila was declared at 11pm.
No untoward incident was reported during the election, said Md Abdul Wadud, officer-in-charge of Tarakanda police station.
