Ruling Awami League mayoral candidate Rezaul Karim Chowdhury won the Chattogram City Corporation elections marred by allegations of irregularities, ousting of opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party-backed candidate's polling agents, capturing of polling centres by the ruling party activists, election boycotting and violence that killed two people and injured scores.

AL mayoral candidate won the election by bagging 3, 69,258 votes in 733 centres, out of 735, defeating his nearest competitor and Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate Shahadat Hossain, who bagged 52,489 votes.

Balloting in two polling centres was suspended due to election violence.

Besides, Islami Andolan Bangladesh mayoral candidate Jannatul Islam got 4,980 votes, Bangladesh Islamic Front’s MA Matin bagged 2,125 votes, National People’s Party’s Abul Manzur bagged 4,653 votes, Islamic Front Bangladesh’s Wahed Murad secured 1,109 votes, and independent candidate Khokon Chowdhury got 885 votes.

Returning officer Muhammad Hasanuzzaman announced the election result at about 1:45 am on Thursday at the Gymnasium Hall of MA Aziz Stadium of the port city.

He said that a total of 4, 36,543 votes were cast in the election, which means 22.52 per cent of the total voters in the port city exercised their voting power.

Of the votes cast in the polls, 1,053 votes were rejected, the returning officer said.

The election was held between 8:00 am and 4:00 pm on Wednesday. Electronic Voting machines were used in all the polling centres.