A total of 428,828 expatriate ballots cast via the “Postal Vote BD” mobile app for the 13th National Parliamentary Election and the Referendum 2026 have so far arrived in Bangladesh. Meanwhile, 503,441 overseas voters have already completed their voting.
Salim Ahmad Khan, Team Leader of the ‘OCV-SDI’ project on expatriate voter registration, confirmed on Sunday (8 February) that, 766,862 ballots registered through the app had reached expatriate destination countries. Of these, 527,450 voters had received their ballots, and 503,441 had completed voting as of 11:00am.
He added that 484,765 ballots had been submitted to post offices or ballot boxes abroad, while 428,828 had so far reached Bangladesh.
Domestically, the Election Commission (EC) has dispatched postal ballots to 760,898 registered voters within the country (ICPV).
According to EC data, by 11:00am, 443,542 voters had received their ballots via the Postal Vote BD app. Of these, 388,898 had completed voting, while 344,826 had submitted their ballots to post offices or ballot boxes.
Salim Ahmad Khan further stated that, in total, 1,527,760 voters—both expatriate and domestic—registered to vote in the 13th National Parliamentary Election and the Referendum using the mobile app.
