Voters are hoping for a return to democracy after 15 years of authoritarian rule under Sheikh Hasina.
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More than 2,000 candidates are vying for a seat in parliament, though none from Hasina's now-banned Awami League party.
As many as 1,400 protesters were killed during the 2024 uprising, the UN says - with Hasina accused of having directly ordered the crackdown, an allegation she denies.
The election pits the centre-right Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) against a coalition led by the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami which has joined forces with a party born out of the student uprising. Results are expected on Friday.
Voters were also casting their ballots in a referendum on constitutional change proposed by the interim government to fix what it has called a completely broken political system.
Nearly a million police and soldiers have been deployed to maintain law and order.
Speaking after voting, interim leader Muhammad Yunus said the country had "ended the nightmare and begun a new dream".
He voted in the capital Dhaka, as did the two leading candidates, Tarique Rahman for the BNP and Jamaat's leader Shafiqur Rahman.
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