# BNP sweeps Bangladesh's first post-Hasina vote; Tarique Rahman to be PM > Yunus's interim government hands over after a February landslide; Jamaat-e-Islami a distant second, the student NCP nearly shut out **Meta:** type: story · date: 2026-02-12 · heads: من يقرّر, اللعبة الطويلة · 6 takes · 3 lenses · 4 regions ## Summary [Bangladesh's](/ar/entity/bangladesh) Nationalist Party (BNP), led by Tarique Rahman, won a landslide in the 12 February 2026 Jatiya Sangsad election — the first since the July 2024 uprising ended Sheikh Hasina's 15-year rule ([من يقرّر](/ar/head/who-decides)). The BNP took 209 of 300 directly elected seats on roughly 50% of the vote and about 37.5 million ballots; Jamaat-e-Islami finished second; the student-led National Citizen Party won just six of 30 seats it contested. Turnout was 59.44%. The vote was run by [Muhammad Yunus's](/ar/entity/muhammad-yunus) interim government, in office since August 2024; Yunus congratulated Rahman and prepared to hand over. Rahman — long in exile — appealed for unity. Jamaat accepted the outcome despite vote-count complaints. The transition resets ties with [India](/ar/entity/india), which had backed Hasina. ## By the numbers - 209 of 300 — BNP's directly elected seats, a two-thirds-scale landslide. - ~50% — BNP popular vote share; ~37.5 million ballots. - 59.44% — turnout. - 6 of 30 — seats won by the student-led National Citizen Party. - Aug 2024 — start of Yunus's interim government, now handing over. ## Why it matters The first elected government since Hasina's fall determines whether Bangladesh consolidates a pluralist transition or recreates winner-take-all rule under a BNP supermajority. It reshapes Dhaka's relations with India, China and the West, and the fate of the youth movement that drove the uprising. ## What to watch - The formal handover from Yunus and Rahman's cabinet formation. - Whether a BNP supermajority governs inclusively or sidelines Jamaat and the NCP. - Dhaka–Delhi relations and the legal pursuit of Hasina-era figures. ## Regional takes (batched by bias / lens) ### unlabelled - **Election Commission of Bangladesh** (Bangladesh, bn) — Bangladesh's election commission, led by Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin — the official authority that ran the 12 February 2026 Jatiya Sangsad election and certified the seat results cited below. > "Official electoral authority for the 12 February 2026 Jatiya Sangsad general election." Source: https://www.ecs.gov.bd/ - **Al Jazeera** (Qatar, en) — Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/14/bnp-wins-bangladesh-election-tarique-rahman-set-to-be-prime-minister - **India TV** (India, en) — Source: https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/world/bangladesh-election-results-2026-live-updates-vote-counting-in-299-parliamentary-constituencies-bnp-jamaat-e-islami-muhammad-yunus-shafiqur-rahman-1029985 - **Wikipedia (2026 Bangladeshi general election)** (Global, en) — Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Bangladeshi_general_election ### leading independent Bengali daily - **Prothom Alo** (Bangladesh, bn) — Bangladesh's most-read independent paper covers the BNP landslide and Tarique Rahman's path to the premiership from exile, weighing turnout (59.44%) and the marginalisation of the student-led National Citizen Party that helped topple Hasina. > "BNP wins a landslide; Tarique Rahman set to lead as Yunus's caretaker government prepares to hand over." Source: https://www.prothomalo.com/ ### English-language liberal establishment - **The Daily Star** (Bangladesh, en) — Reads the result as the close of the interim period, stressing Jamaat-e-Islami's second-place finish and acceptance of the count, and the risk that a BNP supermajority recreates the winner-take-all politics the 2024 uprising rejected. > "BNP secures two-thirds of seats; Jamaat accepts the outcome despite vote-count complaints." Source: https://www.thedailystar.net/ ## Across the graph - Related: [[election-calendar-h2-2026]] - Entities: Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus, India --- Canonical: https://rbtfl.xyz/ar/n/bangladesh-tarique-rahman-government