This study analyses the pre-election media monitoring, political dynamics, and electoral outcome of the 13th National Parliamentary Election of Bangladesh, held on February 12, 2026. The election was the first since the July 2024 popular uprising that ended Sheikh Hasina's 16-year Awami League rule. The election resulted in a landslide victory for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), with Jamaat-e-Islami emerging as the principal opposition. Drawing on a primary dataset of 1,423 news articles collected from 14 major Bangladeshi print and digital media outlets (October 21 - December 10, 2025), supplemented by data from the Human Rights Support Society (HRSS) and the Election Commission, this study traces electoral discourse across five thematic domains. The analysis reveals that pre-election media dynamics, particularly the saturation coverage of BNP's internal nomination disputes foreshadowed the party's organizational dominance on election day. Despite documented irregularities and structural constraints on electoral quality, the election is regarded as a significant milestone in Bangladesh's democratic history.