The Election Commission has reset the boundaries of 25 of the 300 parliamentary constituencies to be contested in the upcoming Eleventh National Election.
The decision came on Monday from a meeting chaired by Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda on Monday, Election Commissioner Md Rafiqul Islam told the media.
Boundaries of no constituencies in Dhaka have been revised, he added.
The boundaries of the 300 constituencies have been finalised and will be announced in a gazette, which will be issued on Monday, EC Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed.
The boundaries of 275 constituencies will remain unchanged from those used in the tenth national parliamentary elections.
On Mar 14, a draft of the redistricted boundaries showed alterations to 40 constituencies while the remaining 260 remained the same. But 60 of the boundaries outlined in the draft were contested or petitioned.
The EC scrutinised the appeals from Apr 21 to Apr 25 before accepting 35 of the appeals.
As a result, those constituencies will maintain the boundaries from the tenth national parliamentary elections. The remaining 25 will be changed.
The 25 seats to be reset are Nilphamari-3, Nilphamari-4, Rangpur-1, Rangpur-3, Kurigram-3, Kurigram-4, Sirajganj-1, Sirajganj-2, Khulna-3, Khulna-4, Jamalpur-4, Jamalpur-5, Narayanganj-4, Narayanganj-5, Sylhet-2, Sylhet-3, Moulvibazar-2, Moulvibazar-3, Brahmanbaria-5, Brahmanbaria-6, Cumilla-6, Cumilla-9, Cumilla-10, Noakhali-4 and Noakhali-5.