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Gazette of Dhaka cities’ polls results published

The Election Commission has published a gazette notification on the results of Dhaka North and Dhaka South city corporations’ polls.

The gazette was published on Tuesday but the commission didn’t publish it on their website yet.

According to the Local Government Act 2009, the newly elected mayors and councilors will have to take oath within 30 days of issuing of the gazette.

Awami League candidates Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh of DSCC and Atiqul Islam of DNCC won the mayoral race with larger margin of votes in the polls.

Besides, 54 general councillors and 18 reserved women councillors in DSCC and 75 general councillors and 25 reserved women councillors won in the polls.