Comilla-10

Cumilla-10 is a constituency of the Jatiya Sangsad of Bangladesh.Since 6 August, 2024 the constituency is vacant.

Cumilla-10
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Cumilla District
Division	Chattogram Division
Electorate	516,571 (2018)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1973
Parliamentary Party	None
Member of Parliament	Vacant
Previous Constituency	Comilla-9 (Constituency 257)
Next Constituency	Comilla-11 (Constituency 259)

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Comilla Sadar Dakshin, Lalmai, and Nangalkot upazilas.^[2]

History

The constituency was created for the first general elections in newly independent Bangladesh, held in 1973.

Ahead of the 2014 general election, the Election Commission expanded the boundaries of the constituency to include all of Comilla Sadar Dakshin Upazila. Previously it had excluded Comilla Dakshin Municipality and the upazila's six northernmost union parishads: Bara Para, Bijoypur, Chouara, Galiara, Purba Jorekaran, and Paschim Jorekaran.^[3][4]

Ahead of the 2018 general election, the Election Commission expanded the boundaries of the constituency by adding Lalmai Upazila, which had been created in 2017 from union parishads of Comilla Sadar Upazila and Laksam Upazila.^[2][5]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1973	Wali Ahmed	Awami League[6]
	1979	Redwan Ahmed	Bangladesh Nationalist Party[7]
Major Boundary Changes
	1986	Rafiqul Hossain	Jatiya Party[8]
	1988	Saiful Islam	[9]
	1991	ATM Alamgir	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
	1996	Md. Tajul Islam	Awami League
	2001	Anwarul Azim	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
	2008	Mustafa Kamal	Awami League
	2014
	2018
	2024

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Mustafa Kamal was re-elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election.^[10]

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2008: Comilla-10^[3][11][12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Mustafa Kamal	138,089	59.7	+21.7
	BNP	Mobasher Alam Bhuiyan	89,821	38.8	−19.3
	IAB	Md. Gajiul Haque Mazumder	1,298	0.6	N/A
	National People's Party	M. Ahidur Rahman	999	0.4	N/A
	BNP	Abdul Gafur Bhuiyan	629	0.3	N/A
	LDP	Jmirul Akhter	517	0.2	N/A
Majority			48,268	20.9	+0.8
Turnout			231,353	81.5	+11.4
	AL gain from BNP

General Election 2001: Comilla-10^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Anwarul Azim	107,769	58.1	+23.5
	AL	Md. Tajul Islam	70,434	38.0	+1.3
	IJOF	Golam Mostafa Kamal	6,518	3.5	N/A
	JSD	Monirul Anwar	388	0.2	N/A
	Independent	ATM Alamgir	256	0.1	N/A
	Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dal (Mahbub)	Yasin Mia	148	0.1	N/A
Majority			37,335	20.1	+18.0
Turnout			185,513	70.1	−2.1
	BNP gain from AL

Elections in the 1990s

General Election June 1996: Comilla-10^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Md. Tajul Islam	49,298	36.7	+3.6
	BNP	ATM Alamgir	46,479	34.6	−1.4
	Independent	Moksed Ali	23,605	17.6	N/A
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Rezaul Karim	13,285	9.9	N/A
	Independent	Golam Mostafa Kamal	708	0.5	N/A
	Zaker Party	Ruhul Amin	482	0.4	N/A
	NAP (Bhashani)	Mohammad Lokman Hossain	470	0.3	N/A
	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD	Monirul Anwar	168	0.1	N/A
Majority			2,819	2.1	−0.8
Turnout			134,495	72.2	+30.2
	AL gain from BNP

General Election 1991: Comilla-10^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	ATM Alamgir	36,658	36.0
	AL	Khorshed Alam Suruz	33,709	33.1
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Md. Abdur Rab Patwari	16,151	15.9
	JP(E)	Habibur Rahman Mazumdar	12,883	12.7
	Zaker Party	Moktar Ahmed	793	0.8
	IOJ	A K M Ruhul Amin Chowdhury	591	0.6
	WPB	Shuvas Bhoumik	584	0.6
	NAP (Muzaffar)	Jinnat Ali	469	0.5
Majority			2,949	2.9
Turnout			101,838	42.0
	BNP gain from

References

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13. "Parliament Election Result of 1991, 1996, 2001 Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics". Vote Monitor Networks. Archived from the original on 29 December 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2018.

External links

• "People's Republic of Bangladesh". Psephos.

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