Eight candidates from six political parties are contesting for these two seats.
The voting began at 9am through Electronic Voting Machine (EVM ) which will continue till 5pm without any break.
A total of six candidates are contesting in Dhaka-18 constituency.
They are – Awami League (AL) backed Mohammad Habib Hasan, BNP nominated SM Jahangir Hossain, Jatiya Party nominated Mohammad Nasir Uddin Sarkar, Mohammad Omar Faruque of Bangladesh Congress, Kazi Mohammad Shahidullah of Gonofront and Mohammad Mahibullah Bahar of PDP.
The total number of polling stations is 217 and the number of polling booths is 1,353. The total number of voters is 5,77,188. Among them, 296,135 voters are male and 2,81,053 are female.
Meanwhile, candidates contesting in Sirajganj-1 are Awami League backed Tanvir Shakil Joy and BNP nominated Selim Reza.
The total number of voters in this constituency is 345,603. Of these, 171,641 are male voters and 173,962 are female voters.
Dhaka 18 constituency fell vacant following the death of Awami League
lawmaker Advocate Sahara Khatun while Sirajganj-1 constituency fell
vacant following the death of ruling party MP Mohammad Nasim.
Awami League nominated candidates Kazi Monirul Islam was elected in Dhaka-5 while Anwar Hossain Helal in Naogaon-6 by-polls held on October 17.
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