Ex-mayor Jahangir‍‍`s mother Zayeda Khatun wins

Zayeda Khatun, an independent mayoral candidate and mother of former mayor Jahangir Alam, has won the Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) elections with 238,934 votes, according to unofficial results.

Her nearest rival, Awami League-backed mayoral candidate Azmat Ullah Khan got 222,737 votes, Md Faridul Islam, returning officer of the election, declared unofficially early Friday.

Faridul Islam announced the unofficial results after counting of votes ended at all 480 polling centres.

Earlier, voting in the Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) election began on Thursday using electronic voting machines (EVMs) in all polling stations in a peaceful manner.

The voting began around 8 am and continued till 4 pm without any break.

Eight candidates contested for mayoral posts in the election and there are 248 councillors and 79 female councilor candidates.

A total of 11,79,476 voters were eligible to vote and of them, 5,92,762 were men and 5,86,696 were women, and the number of transgender people was 18.

Meanwhile, 13,000 law enforcers were deployed to maintain law and order during the election, said Commissioner of Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) Molla Nazrul Islam on Wednesday.

Twenty platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members had also been deployed alongside 30 teams of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and Ansar members, said Returning Officer Faridul Islam.