2017 Rangpur City Corporation election

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2017 Rangpur mayoral election
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 2012
21 December 2017
2022  
Registered393,894
Turnout74.23%
 
Candidate Mostafizar Rahman Mostafa Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu
Party JP(E) AL
Popular vote159,82461,557
Percentage55.01%21.19%

 
CandidateKawsar Zaman BablaA. T. M. Golam Mostafa Babu
Party BNP IAB
Popular vote34,79123,718
Percentage11.97%8.17%

Mayor before election

Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu
AL

Elected Mayor

Mostafizur Rahman Mostafa
JP(E)

Council election
21 December 2017
44 seats in the Rangpur City Corporation
PartyLeaderSeats+/–
AL Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu 19+6
JP(E) Mostafizar Rahman Mostafa 13+4
BNP Kawsar Zaman Babla6+1
BSD Didn't contest1+1
Independent 5−5
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2017 election for mayor of Rangpur City Corporation was held on 21 December 2017. Rangpur is a city in Bangladesh. The result was a victory for the Jatiya Party candidate Mostafizar Rahman Mostafa. [1] [2]

Mayoral election results

Rangpur mayoral election 2017 [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
JP(E) Mostafizur Rahman Mostafa 159,824 55.01%
AL Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu 61,55721.19%
BNP Kawsar Zaman Babla34,79111.97%
IAB A. T. M. Golam Mostafa Babu23,7188.17%
Independent Hossain Maqbul Shahriar Asif 2,3060.79%New
BSD Abdul Quddus1,2450.43%
National People's Party (Bangladesh) Md. Selim Akhter8070.28%New
Rejected ballots6,2732.16%
Majority 98,26733.82%
Turnout 290,52174.23%
Registered electors 391,366
JP(E) hold

References

  1. Chowdhury, Moinul Hoque; Billah, Masum; Azad, Shahzada Mia; bdnews24.com. "Jatiya Party's Mostafa wins landslide in Rangpur City mayor election". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2022-01-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. "Ex-Rangpur city mayor Jhantu dies at age 66". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  3. "JP wins big in bastion". The Daily Star. 2017-12-22. Retrieved 2020-03-02.