Voting underway in 19 postponed upazilas

Voting is underway in the 19 upazilas where elections were postponed due to cyclone Remal.

The voting began at 8am on Sunday (June 9) at 1,181 polling centres in these upazilas and will continue till 4pm without any break.

Votes are being cast by EVM in Pirojpur’s Mathbaria, while the rest are using traditional ballot papers.

A total of 330 candidates are contesting the polls. Of them 119 are running for the post of chairman, 132 for the post of vice chairman and 79 for the post of woman vice-chairman. There are 3,046,088 voters in these constituencies.

These 19 upazilas were supposed to go to the polls during the third phase of the upazila polls on May 29. But the election commission postponed the polls due to cyclone Remal.