Bangladesh Nationalist Party wins pivotal election – in pictures...

BNP chairman Tarique Rahman casts his vote at the Gulshan Model School and College polling centre in the capital, Dhaka.Photograph: Elke Scholiers/Getty ImagesShare An election commissioner announces vote counting results at the election commission headquarters in Dhaka.Photograph: Xinhua/ShutterstockShare Supporters of the BNP chant slogans as they celebrate unofficial news of Tarique Rahman’s win in his constituency.Photograph: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/ReutersShare Shafiqur Rahman, the head of BNP’s main rival, the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami, conceded defeat, with his party on just 56 seats. Rahman said Jamaat would not engage in the ‘politics of opposition’ for the sake of it. ‘We will do positive politics,’ he told reporters.Photograph: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/ReutersShare Polling officials begin the counting of votes cast for the national parliamentary election in Dhaka.Photograph: Mahmud Hossain Opu/APShare A Bangladeshi woman casts her vote in a polling station.Photograph: Anupam Nath/APShare Counting begins after voting concluded in 299 constituencies of Bangladesh.Photograph: Drik/Getty ImagesShare A polling officer puts ink on a voter’s finger.Photograph: Sazzad Hossain/SOPA Images/ShutterstockShare A voter smiles and shows off her inked finger after exercising her right to vote.Photograph: ZUMA Press/AvalonShare Polling officials begin counting piles of ballots after voting concluded in 299 constituencies of Bangladesh.Photograph: Drik/Getty ImagesShare People in Dhaka queue to cast their vote in the Bangladesh election.Photograph: ZUMA Press/AvalonShare Voters queue outside a polling station in Dhaka.Photograph: Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto/ShutterstockShare A voter poses for a portrait and shows her marked thumb as proof of her vote.Photograph: ZUMA Press/AvalonShare Bangladeshi military force soldiers stand by in Dhaka City during the election and referendum.Photograph: ZUMA Press/AvalonShare Voters waiting in the streets.Photograph: ZUMA Press/AvalonShare Bangladeshi military force soldiers stand alert in Dhaka City.Photograph: Sazzad Hossain/SOPA Images/ShutterstockShare Supporters of the BNP chant slogans as they celebrate news of Tarique Rahman’s win in his constituency near the party’s Gulshan office in Dhaka.Photograph: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/ReutersShare