Voting in Bangladesh’s historic election concludes with women all asking the same question – where are all the female candidates?

Polls have now closed in the crucial election to decide Bangladesh’s democratic future, with turnout nearing 50 per cent despite calls for a boycott from supporters of the previous ousted regime.

Yet while Bangladesh is one of relatively few countries in the world to have had multiple female leaders, many here are asking why there were not more women on this historic ballot.