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Bangladesh election results show Tarique Rahman's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has won a majority in the country's historic poll.
The Election Commission said Friday the voter turnout in Thursday's election stood at 59.44%. More than 127 million voters were eligible, with almost half of them women and 5 million first-timers.
Tarique Rahman - the 60-year-old scion of a political dynasty that has dominated Bangladeshi politics for decades - has emerged with a thumping majority.
Bangladesh election results show the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has won a majority in the country's historic poll.
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