The Election Commission has planned to arrange maiden elections in between December 21, 2014 and January 31, 2015 to some 1,600 seats set aside exclusively for women in Upazila Parishads (UZ) across the country, reports UNB.
The commission will announce the election schedules at the end of November or early December to fill the vacant reserved seats of the country's 487 upazilas, said Election Commissioner Mohammad Abu Hafiz.
"The election will be held in phases within the gaps between public examinations," he told the news agency.
The EC has chosen the time between December 21 and January 31 as JSC-JDC examinations and annual examinations of schools and madrasahs across the country will be held before December 21, while the SSC examinations will start in early February, 2015.
A UZ Parishad comprises one chairman, two vice-chairmen (one of the posts reserved for woman), chairmen of all union parishads and mayors of municipalities under the upazila and women members elected from the seats reserved for them.
The fourth countrywide upazila election was held early this year since the first polls were held in 1985. But the commission failed to hold the elections to fill the seats kept reserved for women because of delay in preparing the voter list and other legal complexities.
The chairmen and vice-chairmen are elected in direct balloting, but not the women members in the reserved seats. The women members of an upazila prishad are elected in an indirect vote by the women members of the reserved seats of union parishad/municipality.
Each union parishad/municipality has a one-third quota from the total number of UP/municipal councillors for women, who will be voters to elect the reserved-seat women members for Upazila Parishad.
Polls to fill vacant women\\\'s UZ reserved seats from Dec 21 to Jan 31
FE Team | Published: November 08, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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