300 of the 315 seats in the Jatiya Sangsad 151 seats needed for a majority
Registered
35,205,642
Turnout
54.91%
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Serajul Alam Khan
Ataur Rahman Khan
Party
AL
JSD
BJL
Last election
288 seats
–
0 seats
Seats won
293
1
1
Seat change
5
New
1
Popular vote
13,798,717
1,229,110
62,354
Percentage
73.20%
6.52%
0.33%
Prime Minister before election
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
AL
Subsequent Prime Minister
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
AL
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General elections were held in newly independent Bangladesh on 7 March 1973. The result was a victory for the Bangladesh Awami League, who won 293 of the 300 directly elected seats, including eleven constituencies where they were elected unopposed without a vote.[1][2] Voter turnout was 55%.
Though the Awami League was already the clear favourite before the elections, Sheikh Mujib's government put major effort into winning every seat. This led to a nearly complete obliteration of the opposition, with most of the leadership of opposition parties failing to win seats, including Major Jalil (Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal), Rashed Khan Menon, Kazi Zafar Ahmed and Aleem al-Razee (National Awami Party (Bhashani)), and Suranjit Sengupta (National Awami Party (Muzaffar)).[3]
^Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p535 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
^Government of Bangladesh (1991). A Background Paper on Bangladesh Parliamentary Elections. Dhaka: Press Information Department (Handout No. 429).
^Jahan, Rounaq (1974). "Bangladesh in 1973: Management of Factional Politics". Asian Survey. 14 (2): 125–35. doi:10.2307/2643085. JSTOR 2643085 – via JSTOR.
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