Election Commission of Bangladesh

The Election Commission is managing the transition to non-partisan local government elections while attempting to curb rising political violence and intra-party disputes.

Constitutional body established under Article 118 of the 1972 Constitution; appointment now governed by the Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners Appointment Act 2022, which created a six-member search committee. CEC AMM Nasir Uddin (former Secretary, b. 1952, Cox's Bazar) was appointed by President Shahabuddin on 21 November 2024 and sworn in on 24 November 2024; he is the 14th CEC and the seventh former bureaucrat to hold the post. The four sitting Election Commissioners are Md Anwarul Islam Sarker (retired additional secretary), Abdur Rahmanel Masud (retired district judge), Begum Tahmida Ahmed (retired joint secretary), and Brig Gen (retd) Abul Fazal Md Sanaullah. Budget figure of Tk 4,026 crore (annual_budget_bdt = 40,260,000,000) represents the revised FY2025-26 total after the January 2026 supplementary allocation of Tk 1,070 crore was added to the original Tk 2,956 crore. Staff count of ~3,000 covers all permanent positions across the central secretariat (Agargaon, Dhaka) and district/upazila field offices per the IFES 2018 institutional profile; secretariat alone has approximately 530 positions. Established_year 1972: the commission was constitutionally mandated in the Constitution adopted 4 November 1972 and effective 16 December 1972; Justice M. Idris served as the first CEC.