Bangladesh election: PM Sheikh Hasina wins fourth term in controversial vote
Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has secured her fourth straight term in a controversial election.
Ms Hasina will serve another five years in office after her party the Awami League and its allies won 223 of 300 parliamentary seats contested.
With the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party boycotting the poll, Ms Hasina’s party and allies are expected to win the remaining seats as well.
Independents, almost all of them from the Awami League itself, won 45 seats and the Jatiya Party won eight seats. Results are expected to be announced officially later today (Monday).
It is the fifth term in total for Ms Hasina, who first became prime minister in 1996 and was re-elected in 2009, remaining in power since.
"I am trying my best to ensure that democracy should continue in this country," she told reporters as she cast her vote.
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