Bangladeshi general election, 1979

February 18, 1979 (1979-02-18)

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

	First party	Second party

Leader	Ziaur Rahman	-
Party	BNP	Awami League
Leader since	1978	-
Leader's seat	Bogra	-
Last election	New	293 seats
Seats won	207	39
Popular vote	7,934,236	4,734,277
Percentage	41.2%	24.5%

Prime Minister of Bangladesh before election

Ziaur Rahman
BNP

Office dissolved

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The Second National Parliamentary Elections 1979 (Bengali: দ্বিতীয় জাতীয় সংসদ নির্বাচন ১৯৭৯) were held in Bangladesh on 18 February 1979. The result was a victory for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which won 207 of the 300 seats. Voter turnout was 51.3%.^[1]

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Bangladesh Nationalist Party	7,934,236	41.2	207	New
Bangladesh Awami League	4,734,277	24.5	39	–254
Bangladesh Muslim League & Islamic Democratic League	1,941,394	10.1	20	New
Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal	931,851	4.8	8	+7
Bangladesh Awami League (Mizan)	535,426	2.8	2	New
National Awami Party (Muzaffar)	432,514	2.2	1	New
Bangladesh Gono Front	115,622	0.6	2	New
Bangladesh Samyabadi Dal (Marxist-Leninist)	74,771	0.4	1	New
Bangladesh Jatiya League	69,319	0.4	2	1
Jatuya Ekata Party	44,459	0.2	1	New
Bangladesh Ganatantrik Andolan	34,259	0.2	1	New
Bangladesh Democratic Party	462,127	2.4	0	New
Bangladesh Ganatantrik Chashi Dal			0	New
Bangladesh Janata Dal			0	New
Bangladesh Jatiya Mukti Party			0	New
Bangladesh Labour Party			0	New
Bangladesh Nezam-e-Islam Party			0	New
Bangladesh Tanti Samity			0	New
Communist Party of Bangladesh			0	0
Gano Azadi League			0	New
Jatiyatabadi Ganatantrik Dal			0	New
Jatiya Janata Party			0	New
National Awami Party (Naser)			0	New
National Awami Party (Nurur-Zahid)			0	New
National Republican Party for Parity			0	New
People's Democratic Party			0	New
Shramik Krishak Samajbadi Dal			0	New
United People's Party			0	New
United Republican Party			0	New
Independents	1,963,345	10.2	16	+15
Invalid/blank votes	402,524	–	–	–
Total	19,676,124	100	300	0
Registered voters/turnout	38,363,858	51.3	–	–
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p535 ISBN 0-19-924958-X

Elections and referendums in Bangladesh

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Presidential elections	1978 1981 1986

Referendums	1977 1985 1991

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