Bangladeshi general election, 1991

February 27, 1991 (1991-02-27)

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

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Khaleda Zia	Sheikh Hasina	Hussain Muhammad Ershad
Party	BNP	Awami League	Jatiya Party (E)
Leader since	1984	1981	1986
Leader's seat	Feni-1	Gopalganj-3	Rangpur
Last election	boycotted	boycotted	251 seats
Seats won	140	88	35
Seat change			216
Popular vote	10,507,549	10,259,866	4,063,537
Percentage	30.8%	30.1%	11.9%

Prime Minister before election

Kazi Zafar Ahmed
Jatiya Party (E)

Prime Minister-designate

Khaleda Zia
BNP

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The Fifth National Parliamentary Elections 1991 (Bengali: পঞ্চম জাতীয় সংসদ নির্বাচন ১৯৯১) were held in Bangladesh on 27 February 1991. The result was a victory for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which won 140 of the 300 seats. Voter turnout was 55.4%.^[1]

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/-
Bangladesh Nationalist Party	10,507,549	30.8	140	New
Bangladesh Awami League	10,259,866	30.1	88	New
Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh	4,136,461	12.1	18	New
Jatiya Party	4,063,537	11.9	35	-216
Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League	616,014	1.8	5	New
Communist Party of Bangladesh	407,515	1.2	5	New
Islami Oikkya Jote	269,434	0.8	1	New
National Awami Party (Muzaffar)	259,978	0.8	1	New
Ganatantri Party	152,529	0.4	1	New
National Democratic Party	121,918	0.4	1	New
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (Siraj)	84,276	0.2	1	-2
Workers Party of Bangladesh	63,434	0.2	1	New
63 other parties	1,663,834	4.9	0	-
Independents	1,497,369	4.4	3	-22
Invalid/blank votes	374,026	-	-	-
Total	34,477,803	100	300	0
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

↑ Nohlen, D, Grotz, F & Hartmann, C (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p537 ISBN 0-19-924958-X

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