A total of 23 vice-president candidates bagged less than 10 votes each in Tuesday’s Dhaka University Central Students’ Union elections.
Of them, three candidates got only one vote each.
A total of 44 candidates vied in the elections for the post of DUCSU vice-president.
The elections’ returning officers announced the final results at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Building on the Dhaka University campus Wednesday morning.
The three VP candidates who bagged only one vote each are Md Sujon Hossen, Rakibul Hasan and Rasel Huq.
Nasim Uddin, Md Sohanur Rahman and Md Habibullah managed to get two votes each, while Mudabbir Rahman, Helalur Rahman and Shah Jamal Shayem got three votes each.
Md Foysal Ahmed bagged four votes, and Asif Anwar Antik and Md Ataur Rahman Shipon earned five votes each in the elections.
Five VP candidates who bagged six votes each are Deen Muhammad Shohag, Md Azgor Bepari, Md Shafi Rahman, Md Uzzal Hossen and Jannati Bulbul.
Md Abul Hossain, Md Rasel Mahmud and Zayed Bin Iqbal got seven votes each, Jalal Ahmed and Riaz Uddin Ahmed earned eight votes each, and Mahadi Hasan bagged nine votes each.
According to the official data, the Islami Chhatra Shibir-backed Oikkoboddho Shikkharthi Jote’s vice-president candidate Abu Shadik Kayem was elected vice-president by bagging 14,042 votes.
His nearest contestants, Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal’s Abidul Islam Khan and independent candidate Shameem Hossen bagged 5,708 and 3,883 votes, respectively.
A total of 470 candidates, independently and from 12 panels, contested against 28 DUCSU posts.
DUCSU elections garnered huge attention from the students following the political changeover after the July mass uprising, which ousted the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime on August 5, 2024.
The much-awaited DUCSU elections recorded a voter turnout of 78.33 per cent of the total 39,874 registered voters, according to the chief returning officer Professor Md Jasim Uddin.
DUCSU elections, marked by allegations of irregularities, including vote rigging and violations of the electoral code of conduct, were held on Tuesday amid a festive mood after a six-year gap.
The student body elections were previously held on March 11, 2019, after a 28-year gap.
