Bangladeshi general election, 1986

May 7, 1986 (1986-05-07)

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

	First party	Second party

Leader	Hussain Muhammad Ershad	Sheikh Hasina
Party	Jatiya Party (E)	Awami League
Leader since	1986	1981
Leader's seat	Rangpur	Gopalganj
Last election	New	54 seats
Seats won	153	76
Seat change	153	22
Popular vote	12,079,259	7,462,157
Percentage	42.3%	26.2%

Prime Minister before election

Hussain Mohammad Ershad
Jatiya Party (E)

Prime Minister-designate

Hussain Mohammad Ershad
Jatiya Party (E)

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The Third National Parliamentary Elections 1986 (Bengali: তৃতীয় জাতীয় সংসদ নির্বাচন ১৯৮৬) were held in Bangladesh on 7 May 1986. A total of 1,527 candidates contested the election.^[1] The result was a victory for the Jatiya Party, which won 153 of the 300 seats. Voter turnout was 61.1%.^[2] Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the winner of the previous elections, boycotted the election.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Jatiya Party	12,079,259	42.3	153	New
Bangladesh Awami League	7,462,157	26.2	76	+37
Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh	1,314,057	4.6	10	New
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (Rab)	725,303	2.5	4	New
Bangladesh Muslim League	412,765	1.4	4	+4
National Awami Party	369,824	1.3	5	+5
Communist Party of Bangladesh	259,728	0.9	5	+5
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (Siraj)	248,705	0.9	3	New
National Awami Party (Muzaffar)	202,520	0.7	2	+1
Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League	191,107	0.7	3	New
Workers Party of Bangladesh	151,828	0.5	3	New
Bangladesh Jayita League	490,372	1.7	0	0
Bangladesh Hindu Oikkya Front
Bangladesh Islamic Andolan
Bangladesh Islamic Republican Party
Bangladesh Khilafat Andolan
Bangladesh Nagarik Sanghati
Gana Azadi League
Islami Jukta Front
Jatiyatabadi Ganatantrik Dal
Jana Dal
Jatiya Janata Party (Odud)
Jatiya Janata Party (Sujat)
Jamaaiatay Olamaya Islam
Jamaaiatay Olamaya Islam-Nezam-e-Islami Party
Pragotishil Jatiyatabadi Dal
Young Muslim Society
Independents	4,619,025	16.3	32	+16
Invalid/blank votes	377,209	–	–	–
Total	28,903,859	100	300	0
Registered voters/turnout	47,305,886	61.1	–	–
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

↑ Bangladesh Inter-Parliamentary Union
↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p536 ISBN 0-19-924958-X

Elections and referendums in Bangladesh

General elections	1920¹ 1923¹ 1926¹ 1930¹ 1934¹ 1945¹ 1946 1954 1962 1970² 1973 1979 1986 1988 1991 1996 (Feb) 1996 (Jun) 2001 2008 2014

Presidential elections	1978 1981 1986

Referendums	1977 1985 1991

¹ As part of British India ² As part of Pakistan

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