United News of Bangladesh

The Election Commission (EC) has brought a major revision to the results of the referendum held to implement the July National Charter (constitutional reform), reducing both ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ votes compared to the previously announced figures. The revised information was published through an additional gazette signed by Senior Secretary of the Election Commission Secretariat Akhtar Ahmad on Wednesday. The latest gazette on revised referendum result shows that ‘Yes’ votes have been reduced to 47,225,980 and ‘No’ votes to 21,960,231. The total number of votes cast now stands at 76,621,407. Among them, 7,435,196 votes were declared invalid, resulting in 69,186,211 valid votes. As per the earlier gazette, the number of ‘Yes’ votes stood at 48,200,660, while ‘No’ votes were recorded at 22,071,726. The total votes cast were 77,695,023, of which 7,422,637 were declared invalid, leaving 70,272,386 valid votes. UNDP strengthens Bangladesh EC with IT support for post-election capacity building So, ‘Yes’ votes decreased by 974,680, while ‘No’ votes dropped by 111,495 compared to the earlier announcement. Interestingly, despite the decline in valid votes, the number of invalid ballots increased by 12,559. Overall, the total votes cast declined by 1,073,616 following the revision.