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Constituency of Bangladesh's Jatiya Sangsad From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kishoreganj-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh from 2008 to 2018 by Sayed Ashraful Islam of the Awami League. His death in January 2019, days after his re-election, will trigger a by-election.[2]
Kishoreganj-1 | |
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Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad | |
District | Kishoreganj District |
Division | Dhaka Division |
Electorate | 430,193 (2018)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1984 |
The constituency encompasses Hossainpur and Kishoreganj Sadar upazilas.[3][4]
The constituency was created in 1984 from a Mymensingh constituency when the former Mymensingh District was split into four districts: Mymensingh, Sherpur, Netrokona, and Kishoreganj.[5]
Election | Member | Party | |
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1986 | A. K. M. Shamsul Haque | Awami League[6] | |
1988 | Bazlul Karim Falu | Jatiya Party[7] | |
1991 | ABM Zahidul Haq | BNP | |
1996 | A. K. M. Shamsul Haque | Awami League | |
1999 by-election | Alauddin Ahammad | ||
2008 | Sayed Ashraful Islam | ||
Feb 2019 by-election | Syeda Zakia Noor Lipi[8] | ||
Sayed Ashraful Islam was re-elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election.[9]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AL | Sayed Ashraful Islam | 172,065 | 62.2 | +13.4 | |
BNP | Md. Masud Hilali | 100,080 | 36.2 | −12.5 | |
CPB | AKM Abu Raihan | 3,526 | 1.3 | N/A | |
BSD | Bikram Basudev Basak | 751 | 0.3 | N/A | |
KSJL | Faruk Ahmad Siddique | 200 | 0.1 | −0.1 | |
Majority | 71,985 | 26.0 | +25.9 | ||
Turnout | 276,622 | 84.2 | +10.0 | ||
AL hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AL | Alauddin Ahammad | 86,623 | 48.8 | ||
BNP | Md. Idris Ali Bhuiyan | 86,509 | 48.7 | ||
IJOF | M. A. Syed Azad | 3,808 | 2.1 | ||
KSJL | Faruk Ahmad Siddique | 415 | 0.2 | ||
Bangladesh Muslim League (Jamir Ali) | A. K. M. Shahjahan | 198 | 0.1 | ||
Majority | 114 | 0.1 | |||
Turnout | 177,553 | 74.2 | |||
AL hold |
A. K. M. Shamsul Haque died in September 1999.[13] Alauddin Ahammad of the Awami League was elected in a 1999 by-election.[14]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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AL | A. K. M. Shamsul Haque | 58,233 | 43.0 | +6.8 | ||
BNP | Md. Idris Ali Bhuiyan | 38,216 | 28.2 | −12.7 | ||
JP(E) | Md. Sohrab Uddin | 29,848 | 22.1 | +8.5 | ||
Jamaat-e-Islami | Nurul Haque | 5,556 | 4.1 | −2.2 | ||
Independent | ABM Zahidul Haq | 2,542 | 1.9 | N/A | ||
Zaker Party | A. K. M. Fazlul Haque | 363 | 0.3 | −0.2 | ||
Gano Forum | Md. Shafiur Rahman Khan | 275 | 0.2 | N/A | ||
Bangladesh Muslim League (Jamir Ali) | A. K. M. Shahjahan | 255 | 0.2 | N/A | ||
Majority | 20,017 | 14.8 | +10.1 | |||
Turnout | 135,288 | 72.1 | +24.4 | |||
AL gain from BNP |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BNP | ABM Zahidul Haq | 41,010 | 40.9 | |||
AL | AKM Shamsul Haque | 36,256 | 36.2 | |||
JP(E) | Md. Sohrab Uddin | 13,661 | 13.6 | |||
Jamaat-e-Islami | Md. Tyabuzzaman | 6,282 | 6.3 | |||
Bangladesh Muslim League (Kader) | A. K. M. Shahjahan | 1,635 | 1.6 | |||
Zaker Party | Md. Mujibur Rahman | 459 | 0.5 | |||
Jatiya Oikkya Front | Md. Baki | 336 | 0.3 | |||
Independent | Md. Jalal Uddin Faruk | 314 | 0.3 | |||
Independent | Md. Fazlur Rahman Reza | 178 | 0.2 | |||
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD | Md. A. Momen | 128 | 0.1 | |||
Majority | 4,754 | 4.7 | ||||
Turnout | 100,259 | 47.7 | ||||
BNP gain from |
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