Bangladesh will hold the 13th parliamentary election on February 12, 2026, Chief Election Commissioner A.M.M. Nasir Uddin announced on Thursday (December 11, 2025).

A referendum on a landmark democratic reform charter will also be held on the same day, the CEC said in a television broadcast to the nation.

This will be the first election after former prime minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted in a violent student-led protest in August 2024.

Interim leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who returned from exile in August 2024 at the behest of protesters to lead a caretaker government, will step down after the polls.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by three-time former prime minister Khaleda Zia, is widely tipped to win.

But Ms. Zia is in intensive care in Dhaka, whi

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