Chittagong-6

Chittagong-6
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Chittagong District
Division	Chittagong Division
Electorate	270,760 (2018) [1]
Current constituency
Created	1973
Parliamentary Party	Bangladesh Awami League
Member of Parliament	A.B.M. Fazle Karim Chowdhury
Prev. Constituency	Chittagong-5 (Constituency 282)
Next Constituency	Chittagong-7 (Constituency 284)

Chittagong-6 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by A.B.M. Fazle Karim Chowdhury of the Awami League.

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Raozan Upazila. ^[2]

History

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

Ahead of the 2008 general election, the Election Commission redrew constituency boundaries to reflect population changes revealed by the 2001 Bangladesh census. ^[3] The 2008 redistricting altered the boundaries of the constituency. ^[4]

Ahead of the 2014 general election, the Election Commission renumbered the seat for Chittagong-16 (Sandwip) to Chittagong-3, bumping up by one the suffix of the former constituency of that name and higher numbered constituencies in the district. Thus Chittagong-6 covers the area previously covered by Chittagong-5. Previously Chittagong-6 encompassed Rangunia Upazila and one union parishad of Boalkhali Upazila: Sreepur Kharandwip. ^{[5] [2] [6]}

Members of Parliament

Key

  AL     BNP     JP(E)     NDP(B)   

Election		Member	Party
	1973	Mohammad Khaled	Bangladesh Awami League [7]
	1979	A. M. Zahiruddin Khan	Bangladesh Nationalist Party [8]
	1986	Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury	Bangladesh Awami League [9]
	1988	Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu	Jatiya Party [10]
	1991	Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury	National Democratic Party (Bangladesh)
	Feb 1996	Golam Akbar Khandaker	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
	June 1996	Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury
	2001	A.B.M. Fazle Karim Chowdhury	Bangladesh Awami League
	2008	Muhammad Hasan Mahmud
	2014	A.B.M. Fazle Karim Chowdhury
	2018

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

A.B.M. Fazle Karim Chowdhury 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: Chittagong-6 ^{[5] [12] [13]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bangladesh Awami League	Muhammad Hasan Mahmud	101,340	58.4	+6.3
	BNP	Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury	72,073	41.6	-5.4
Majority			29,267	16.9	+11.8
Turnout			173,413	87.4	+17.8
	Bangladesh Awami League hold

General Election 2001: Chittagong-6 ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bangladesh Awami League	A.B.M. Fazle Karim Chowdhury	74,669	52.1	+14.4
	BNP	Gias Uddin Kader Chowdhury	67,340	47.0	-5.4
	IJOF	Salamat Ali	1,389	1.0	N/A
Majority			7,329	5.1	-9.6
Turnout			143,398	69.6	+2.9
	Bangladesh Awami League gain from BNP

Elections in the 1990s

General Election June 1996: Chittagong-6 ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Gias Uddin Kader Chowdhury	50,059	52.4	+51.0
	Bangladesh Awami League	A.B.M. Fazle Karim Chowdhury	35,993	37.7	+2.0
	JP(E)	Zia Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury	6,400	6.7	-0.7
	BIF	Abu Nasar Talukdar	1,519	1.6	+0.7
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Md. Jamal Hossain	1,504	1.6	N/A
	Zaker Party	Md. Yaqul Chowdhury	122	0.1	0.0
Majority			14,066	14.7	-3.7
Turnout			95,597	66.7	+19.2
	BNP gain from NDP

General Election 1991: Chittagong-6 ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NDP	Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury	48,646	54.0
	Bangladesh Awami League	Abdullah Al Harun	32,105	35.7
	JP(E)	Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu	6,655	7.4
	BNP	Hasan Chowdhury	1,296	1.4
	BIF	Nasir Uddin	853	0.9
	Bangladesh Muslim League (Kader)	A. F. M. Hasan	199	0.2
	JSD (R)	Nurul Azim	137	0.2
	Zaker Party	Md. Yakub Chowdhury	128	0.1
Majority			16,541	18.4
Turnout			90,019	47.5
	NDP gain from JP(E)

References

1. "Chattogram-6". The Daily Star. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
2. "Delimitation of Constituencies" (PDF). Bangladesh Election Commission (in Bengali). 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
3. Rahman, Syedur (2010). Historical Dictionary of Bangladesh. Scarecrow Press. p. 105. ISBN   978-0-8108-7453-4.
4. Liton, Shakhawat (11 July 2008). "Final list of redrawn JS seats published". The Daily Star.
5. "Constituency Maps of Bangladesh" (PDF). Bangladesh Election Commission. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
6. "53 constituencies get new boundaries". The Daily Star. 4 July 2013.
7. "List of 1st Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
8. "List of 2nd Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
9. "List of 3rd Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
10. "List of 4th Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
11. Zakaria, Mohammad (14 December 2013). "The number now goes up to 151". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
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 Networks. Archived from the original on 29 December 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2018.

External links

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

Coordinates: 22°32′N91°55′E / 22.54°N 91.91°E / 22.54; 91.91