Vote counting for the Jagannath University Central Students’ Union (JAKSU) election remained incomplete late Wednesday night after technical issues forced a manual recount. Despite resuming the process around 12:45 a.m., election officials could not finish counting 278 ballots from the Department of Anthropology within three hours. Election Commissioner Professor Dr. Shahidul Islam said the commission decided to manually count votes from one center with about 300 ballots before using two OMR machines. The machine whose results match the manual count will be used for the remaining centers.

Voting took place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. across 39 centers and 178 booths, with a total of 16,645 registered voters. The election had been postponed from December 30 following the death of former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia and was rescheduled for January 6 after student protests.

Major panels contesting include those backed by Chhatra Dal, Chhatra Shibir, Chhatra Shakti, and left-leaning groups, alongside independent candidates.