The Election Commission today said polls to five city corporations -- Barishal, Gazipur, Khulna, Rajshahi, and Sylhet -- would be held between May 23 to June 29.
The elections would be held in three phases, Jahangir Alam, secretary of the EC Secretariat, at noon today after a meeting of commissioners held at the EC office.
The meeting was presided over by Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal.
He said preliminary discussions on elections to the Gazipur, Rajshahi, Sylhet, Barishal and Khulna, was held at the commissioners' meeting.
The schedules will be announced in mid-April, he said.
The EC is legally obliged to hold election to a city corporation in the last 180 days of the corporation's five-year tenure.
The EC will have to hold Gazipur City Corporation polls between March 11 and September 10, Khulna City Corporation and Rajshahi City Corporation polls between April 13 and October 10, Barishal City Corporation polls between May 14 and November 13, and Sylhet City Corporation polls between May 6 and November 5.
Ruling Awami League leaders Talukder Abdul Khaleque was elected mayor of Khulna city on May 15, 2018, and Zahangir Alam of Gazipur city on June 26, 2018.
AL leaders AHM Khairuzzaman Liton and Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah and BNP leader Ariful Haque Chowdhury were elected mayors of Rajshahi, Barishal and Sylhet cities respectively. All three elections were held on July 30, 2018.
