NCC polls: Victory for Ivy

Awami League mayor candidate Selina Hayat Ivy today won the much-talked-about Narayanganj City Corporation election with a margin of 79, 567 votes.

She bagged 1, 75, 611 votes while her nearest contestant BNP nominee Shakhawat Hossain Khan got 96, 044 votes, Returning Officer Nuruzzaman Talukdar made the announcement at his temporary office at Narayanganj Club around 11:25pm.

Ivy has been re-elected as the mayor of Narayanganj City Corporation for the second consecutive term.

A total of 2, 96, 036 voters out of 4,79,392 [62.33 percent] cast their votes to elect the city mayor, 27 ward councillors and nine women councillors from reserved seats.

Besides, 156 general councillor candidates contested the election in 27 wards, while there were 38 councillor contenders in nine reserved seats.

The voting began at 8:00am and ended at 4:00pm today.

For the first time in many years, an election was held in Narayanganj with no contestant from the influential Osman family that dominated the local Awami League's politics for decades.

Salim Osman and his younger brother Shamim Osman are lawmakers from Jatiya Party and the AL.

The maiden election to the city corporation was held on October 30, 2011 when independent candidate Ivy was elected the country's first female city mayor defeating AL nominee Shamim Osman.

The city corporation is comprised of 27 wards under two upazilas-- Sadar and Bandar-- and four police stations -- Narayanganj, Bandar, Siddhirganj and Fatullah.