Comilla-6

Comilla-6
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Comilla District
Division	Chittagong Division
Electorate	415,884 (2018) [1]
Current constituency
Created	1973
Parliamentary Party	Bangladesh Awami League
Member of Parliament	A. K. M. Bahauddin Bahar
City Council area	Comilla City Corporation
Prev. Constituency	Comilla-5 (Constituency 253)
Next Constituency	Comilla-7 (Constituency 255)

Comilla-6 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008 by A. K. M. Bahauddin Bahar of the Awami League.

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Comilla City Corporation, Comilla Adarsha Sadar Upazila, and Comilla Cantonment. ^[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 reduced the boundaries of the constituency. Previously it had also included one union parishad of Comilla Sadar Dakshin Upazila: Galiara. ^{[5] [6]}

Ahead of the 2018 general election, the Election Commission expanded the boundaries of the constituency by adding Comilla City Corporation and Comilla Cantonment. ^{[2] [5] [7]}

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1973	Kazi Akbar Uddin Mohammad Siddique	Awami League [8]
	1979	Mozammel Haque	Bangladesh Nationalist Party [9]
Major Boundary Changes
	1986	Redwan Ahmed	Jatiya Party [10]
	1988	Khandaker Abdul Mannan	Bangladesh Freedom Party [11]
	1991	Redwan Ahmed	Independent
	February 1996	Khandaker Abdur Rashid	National Democratic Alliance
	1996	Ali Ashraf	Awami League
	2001	Redwan Ahmed	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
	2008	A. K. M. Bahauddin Bahar	Awami League

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2014: Comilla-6 ^{[12] [13]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	A. K. M. Bahauddin Bahar	59,025	60.1	+5.5
	Independent	Masud Parvej Khan	38,293	39.0	N/A
	NAP	Mohammad Ali	888	0.9	N/A
Majority			20,732	21.1	+10.8
Turnout			98,206	31.1	-48.8
	AL hold

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2008: Comilla-6 ^{[5] [14] [15]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	A. K. M. Bahauddin Bahar	126,136	54.6	+23.8
	BNP	Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid Yeasin	102,450	44.3	-24.2
	BIF	Md. Oli Ahmmed	1,219	0.5	N/A
	IAB	Masud Ahmad	1,038	0.4	N/A
	Bangladesh Kalyan Party	Sahidur Rahman	174	0.1	N/A
Majority			23,686	10.3	-27.4
Turnout			231,017	79.9	+10.9
	AL gain from BNP

General Election 2001: Comilla-6 ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Redwan Ahmed	87,483	68.5	+30.8
	AL	Ali Ashraf	39,364	30.8	-7.3
	IJOF	Md. Murad Mia Majumder	342	0.3	N/A
	Independent	Md. Abdus Sattar	228	0.2	N/A
	Independent	Abul Hasem Munsi	184	0.1	N/A
	Jatiya Party (M)	Gazi Abul Kasem	122	0.1	N/A
Majority			48,119	37.7	+37.3
Turnout			127,723	69.0	-4.1
	BNP gain from AL

Elections in the 1990s

General Election June 1996: Comilla-6 ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Ali Ashraf	37,090	38.1	-1.9
	BNP	Redwan Ahmed	36,724	37.7	+35.1
	FP	Abdur Rashid Khandakar	20,097	20.6	+7.7
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Md. Ismail Mian	2,157	2.2	N/A
	JP(E)	Md. Lutfar Reza Khokaon	636	0.7	-0.1
	NAP	Md. Mohsin Sarkar	271	0.3	N/A
	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD	Md. Mobarak Hossain	226	0.2	N/A
	Independent	Md. Murad Miah Muzumdar	220	0.2	N/A
Majority			366	0.4	-0.3
Turnout			97,421	73.1	+23.1
	AL gain from Independent

General Election 1991: Comilla-6 ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Redwan Ahmed	31,179	40.7
	AL	Ali Ashraf	30,631	40.0
	FP	Khandaker Abdul Mannan	9,894	12.9
	BNP	Z. A. Shamsul Haq	1,955	2.6
	Zaker Party	A. Mannan Zehadi	1,205	1.6
	JP(E)	Md. Mujibar Rahman Dilrazi	636	0.8
	NAP (Muzaffar)	Md. A. Zalil Bhuiyan	549	0.7
	Bangladesh Muslim League (Kader)	Mafizur Rahman Mazu	492	0.6
Majority			548	0.7
Turnout			76,541	50.0
	Independent gain from

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External links

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

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