With the right-wing Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies boycotting the election claiming it was already rigged, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina won her fourth consecutive term in office after her Awami League Party won more than two-thirds of the 299 directly elected parliamentary seats, Reuters reports.
The campaign was marred with acts of violence, with both sides claiming the other was the cause. As recently as Friday, an arson attack on a train left four dead, with seven members of the BNP and its youth wing being arrested by authorities for it. The violence and repeated claims of corruption lowered voter participation rate to around 40%.