1986 Bangladeshi general election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 7 May 1986. A total of 1,527 candidates contested the election. The result was a victory for the Jatiya Party, which won 153 of the 300 directly elected seats. Voter turnout was 61%. Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the winner of the previous elections, boycotted the election.
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| Turnout | 61.10% (9.81pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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British observers including a journalist termed the elections a "tragedy for democracy" and a "cynically frustrated exercise".
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