Barisal-1

Barisal-1
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Barisal District
Division	Barisal Division
Electorate	258,034 (2018) [1]
Current constituency
Created	1973
Party	Awami League
Member(s)	Abul Hasanat Abdullah

Barisal-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Abul Hasanat Abdullah of the Awami League.

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Agailjhara and Gournadi upazilas. ^{[2] [3]}

History

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

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1973	Tofail Ahmed	Awami League [4]
	1979	Mosharraf Hossain Shahjahan	Bangladesh Nationalist Party [5]
	1986	Sunil Kumar Gupta	Jatiya Party [6] [7]
	1991	Abul Hasnat Abdullah	Awami League
	February 1996	Zahir Uddin Swapan	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
	June 1996	Abul Hasnat Abdullah	Awami League
	2001	Zahir Uddin Swapan	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
	2008	Talukder Md. Younus	Awami League
	2014	Abul Hasanat Abdullah	Awami League
	2018	Abul Hasanat Abdullah	Awami League

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Abul Hasanat Abdullah was elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election. ^[8]

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2008: Barisal-1 ^{[2] [9] [10]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Talukder Md. Younus	98,245	57.2	+12.1
	BNP	Abdus Sobhan	70,969	41.3	-13.1
	IAB	Golam Mahmud	1,582	0.9	N/A
	Bangladesh Kalyan Party	Shuvashis Samaddar	415	0.2	N/A
	Independent	Ashok Gupta	371	0.2	N/A
	Independent	Zahir Uddin Shapan	203	0.1	N/A
Majority			27,276	15.9	+6.6
Turnout			171,785	87.0	+10.5
	AL gain from BNP

General Election 2001: Barisal-1 ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Zahir Uddin Swapan	81,791	54.4	+11.2
	AL	Abul Hasnat Abdullah	67,760	45.1	0.0
	IJOF	Md. Haroon Ur Rashid	470	0.3	N/A
	Independent	Bhabaranjan Baidhya	262	0.2	N/A
	Independent	John Nihar Ranjan Biswas	64	0.0	N/A
Majority			14,031	9.3	+7.3
Turnout			150,347	76.5	-0.7
	BNP gain from AL

Elections in the 1990s

General Election June 1996: Barisal-1 ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Abul Hasnat Abdullah	52,418	45.1	-2.5
	BNP	Kazi Golam Mahbub	50,125	43.2	+3.2
	JP(E)	Sunil Kumar Gupta	6,054	5.2	+4.2
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Sarder Abdus Salam	5,395	4.6	-4.3
	IOJ	Abdur Razzak Khan	1,619	1.4	N/A
	Independent	John Nihar Ranjan Biswas	374	0.3	N/A
	Jatiya Janata Party (Asad)	Md. Mahabubur Rahman	111	0.1	N/A
	Independent	Md. Abdul Latif Kabiraj	79	0.1	N/A
Majority			2,293	2.0	-5.6
Turnout			116,175	77.2	+16.6
	AL hold

General Election 1991: Barisal-1 ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Abul Hasanat Abdullah	55,697	47.6
	BNP	Kazi Golam Mahbub	46,855	40.0
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Sarder Abdus Salam	10,430	8.9
	Zaker Party	A. K. M. Forhad Hossain	1,510	1.3
	JP(E)	Sarwar Alam	1,154	1.0
	UCL	Zahir Uddin Swapan	613	0.5
	Independent	S. K. Zaman	597	0.5
	Bangladesh Muslim League (Kader)	Khalilur Rahman	165	0.1
Majority			8,842	7.6
Turnout			117,021	60.6
	AL gain from JP(E)

References

1. "Barishal-1". The Daily Star. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
2. "Constituency Maps of Bangladesh" (PDF). Bangladesh Election Commission. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
3. "Delimitation of Constituencies" (PDF). Bangladesh Election Commission (in Bengali). 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
4. "List of 1st Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 February 2018.
5. "List of 2nd Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
6. "List of 3rd Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
7. "List of 4th Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
8. Ahmed, Taib (15 December 2013). "AL closer to majority before voting". New Age. Dhaka. Archived from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
9. "Bangladesh Parliament Election - Detail Results". Amar Desh. Archived from the original on 24 October 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
10. "Nomination submission List". Bangladesh Election Commission (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 11 February 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
11. "Parliament Election Result of 1991,1996,2001 Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics". Vote Monitor Networks. Archived from the original on 28 December 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2018.

External links

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

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