Moulvibazar-4

Moulvibazar-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. Since 6 August 2024, the constituency is vacant.

Moulvibazar-4
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Moulvibazar District
Division	Sylhet Division
Electorate	250,352 (2018)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1984

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses the Sreemangal and Kamalganj upazilas.^[2]

History

The constituency was created in 1984 from the Sylhet-15 constituency when the former Sylhet District was split into four districts: Sunamganj, Sylhet, Moulvibazar, and Habiganj.^[3]

Ahead of the 2008 general election, the Election Commission redrew constituency boundaries to reflect population changes revealed by the 2001 Bangladesh census.^[4] The 2008 redistricting altered the boundaries of the constituency.^[5]

Ahead of the 2018 general election, The Bangladesh Election Commission expanded the boundaries of the constituency by adding four union parishads of Kamalganj Upazila: Adampur, Alinagar, Islampur, and Shamshernagar.^[6][2][7]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1986	Mohammad Elias	Bangladesh Muslim League[8]
	1988	Ahad Miah	Jatiya Party[9]
	1991	Md. Abdus Shahid	Awami League
	Feb 1996	Shafiqur Rahman	Bangladesh Nationalist Party[10]
	Jun 1996	Md. Abdus Shahid	Awami League

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Md. Abdus Shahid was elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election.^[11]

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2008: Moulvibazar-4^[6][12][13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Md. Abdus Shahid	131,740	61.4	+17.3
	BNP	Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury	79,599	37.1	+21.2
	Independent	Pongkoj Auleseos Kondo	2,277	1.1	N/A
	BIF	Abdul Muhit Hasani	632	0.3	N/A
	JSD	M. A. Malek	201	0.1	0.0
Majority			52,141	24.3	+12.4
Turnout			214,449	85.7	+9.7
	AL hold

General Election 2001: Moulvibazar-4^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Md. Abdus Shahid	96,329	44.1	−6.9
	Independent	Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury	70,364	32.2	N/A
	BNP	Md. Mahsin Mia	34,726	15.9	+2.3
	IJOF	Md. Askir Miah	16,975	7.8	N/A
	JSD	Eleman Kabir	288	0.1	N/A
Majority			25,965	11.9	−5.9
Turnout			218,682	76.0	+0.3
	AL hold

Elections in the 1990s

General Election June 1996: Moulvibazar-4^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Md. Abdus Shahid	91,811	51.0	−0.5
	JP(E)	Ahad Miah	59,825	33.3	−7.9
	BNP	Shafiqur Rahman	24,488	13.6	+9.1
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Abdul Gani Tarafdar	2,684	1.5	N/A
	Zaker Party	Samsuzzaman	572	0.3	N/A
	Independent	Ram Kanta Singha	275	0.2	N/A
	Gano Forum	Abdul Rashid Chowdhury	266	0.1	N/A
Majority			31,986	17.8	+7.5
Turnout			179,921	75.7	+15.9
	AL hold

General Election 1991: Moulvibazar-4^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Md. Abdus Shahid	75,321	51.5
	JP(E)	Ahad Miah	60,215	41.2
	BNP	Saifur Rahman	6,594	4.5
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Sirajul Islam Motlib	1,547	1.1
	BAKSAL	Syed Abu Zafar Ahmed	1,547	1.1
	Zaker Party	Samsuzzaman	914	0.6
Majority			15,106	10.3
Turnout			146,138	59.8
	AL gain from JP(E)

References

1. "Moulvibazar-4". The Daily Star. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
2. "EC 'gerrymanders' 25 constituencies for pressure of ministers, MPs". Prothom Alo. 1 May 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
3. "District Statistics 2011: Sylhet" (PDF). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
4. Rahman, Syedur (2010). Historical Dictionary of Bangladesh. Scarecrow Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-8108-7453-4.
5. Liton, Shakhawat (11 July 2008). "Final list of redrawn JS seats published". The Daily Star.
6. "Constituency Maps of Bangladesh" (PDF). Bangladesh Election Commission. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
7. "Delimitation of Constituencies" (PDF). Bangladesh Election Commission (in Bengali). 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
8. "List of 3rd Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
9. "List of 4th Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
10. "List of 6th Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 8 October 2015.
11. Ahmed, Taib (15 December 2013). "AL closer to majority before voting". New Age (Bangladesh). Dhaka. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
12. "Bangladesh Parliament Election - Detail Results". Amar Desh. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
13. "Nomination submission List". Bangladesh Election Commission (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 11 February 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
14. "Parliament Election Result of 1991, 1996, 2001 Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics". Vote Monitor Network. Archived from the original on 28 December 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2018.

External links

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

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