Chuadanga-2

Chuadanga-2
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Chuadanga District
Division	Khulna Division
Electorate	415,027 (2018) [1]
Current constituency
Created	1984
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Chuadanga-2 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008 by Md. Ali Azgar of the Awami League.

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Damurhuda and Jibannagar upazilas, and four union parishads of Chuadanga Sadar Upazila: Begumpur, Nehalpur, Garaitupi and Titudah Union. ^{[2] [3]}

History

The constituency was created in 1984 from a Kushtia constituency when the former Kushtia District was split into three districts: Meherpur, Kushtia, and Chuadanga. ^[4]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1986	Mirza Sultan Raja	JaSaD (Siraj) [5]
	1988	Habibur Rahman	Jatiya Party [6]
	1991	Maulana Habibur Rahman	Jamaat-e-Islami [7]
	1996	Md. Mozammel Haque	BNP
	2008	Md. Ali Azgar	Awami League

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2014: Chuadanga-2 ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Md. Ali Azgar	118,385	93.6	+42.3
	WPB	Sirazul Islam Sheikh	8,030	6.4	N/A
Majority			110,355	87.3	−5.4
Turnout			126,415	34.3	−58.4
	AL hold

Elections in the 2000s

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Md. Ali Azgar	156,323	51.3	+9.7
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Maulana Habibur Rahman	143,418	47.0	N/A
	Zaker Party	Md. Abdul Latif Khan	5,216	1.7	N/A
Majority			12,905	4.2	−11.2
Turnout			304,957	92.7	+3.6
	AL gain from BNP

General Election 2001: Chuadanga-2 ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Md. Mozammel Haque	146,548	57.0	+23.7
	AL	Mirza Sultana Raja	107,050	41.6	+8.8
	IJOF	Md. Nabi Chowdhury	2,744	1.1	N/A
	CPB	Shahidul Islam	957	0.4	N/A
Majority			39,498	15.4	+14.9
Turnout			257,299	89.1	+3.8
	BNP hold

Elections in the 1990s

General Election June 1996: Chuadanga-2 ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Md. Mozammel Haque	64,755	33.3	+3.8
	AL	Mirza Sultan Raja	63,732	32.8	N/A
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Maulana Habibur Rahman	48,944	25.2	−11.4
	JP(E)	Habibur Rahman Hobby	11,187	5.8	−2.2
	Independent	Md. Nabi Chowdhury	2,324	1.2	N/A
	IOJ	A. Mannan	1,872	1.0	+0.6
	Zaker Party	Amir Hossain	1,397	0.7	+0.3
Majority			1,023	0.5	−6.6
Turnout			194,211	85.3	+21.3
	BNP gain from Jamaat-e-Islami

General Election 1991: Chuadanga-2 ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Maulana Habibur Rahman	49,688	36.6
	BNP	Md. Mozammel Haque	40,020	29.5
	Jatia Mukti Dal	Mirza Sultan Raza	25,470	18.8
	JP(E)	Habibur Rahman Hobby	10,788	8.0
	Zaker Party	Saidur Rahman	5,832	4.3
	Independent	Shahidul Islam	2,478	1.8
	Bangladesh Muslim League (Kader)	Nabis Uddin	629	0.5
	IOJ	A. Mannan	493	0.4
	Independent	Yunus Ali	273	0.2
Majority			9,668	7.1
Turnout			135,671	64.0
	Jamaat-e-Islami hold

References

1. "Chuadanga-2". 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. Chakrabarti, Kunal; Chakrabarti, Shubhra (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis. Scarecrow Press. p. 269. ISBN   978-0-8108-8024-5.
5. "List of 3rd Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
6. "List of 4th Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
7. "List of 5th Parliament Members" (PDF). Jatiya Sangsad . Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 September 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
8. "Chuadanga-2". Bangladesh Election Result 2014. Dhaka Tribune. Archived from the original on 21 July 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
9. "Bangladesh Parliament Election - Detail Results". Amar Desh. Archived from the original on 12 February 2018. 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 29 December 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2018.

External links

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

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