Cox's Bazar-3 | |
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Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad | |
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District | Cox's Bazar District |
Division | Chittagong Division |
Electorate | 414,930 (2018) [1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1984 |
Parliamentary Party | Bangladesh Awami League |
Member of Parliament | Shaimum Sarwar Kamal |
Prev. Constituency | Cox's Bazar-2 (Constituency 295) |
Next Constituency | Cox's Bazar-4 (Constituency 297) |
Cox's Bazar-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Shaimum Sarwar Kamal of the Awami League.
The constituency encompasses Cox's Bazar Sadar, Ramu and Eidgaon upazilas. [2] [3]
The constituency was created in 1984 from the Chittagong-17 constituency when the former Chittagong District was split into two districts: Chittagong and Cox's Bazar. The boundaries remained the same. [4]
Shaimum Sarwar Kamal was elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election. [7]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BNP | Lutfur Rahman Kajal | 126,478 | 45.6 | -46.3 | |
AL | Shaimum Sarwar Kamal | 86,536 | 31.2 | +24.5 | |
Independent | Mohammad Sahiduzzaman | 63,068 | 22.8 | N/A | |
Gano Forum | Saiful Islam Chowdhury | 578 | 0.2 | N/A | |
FP | Syed Ullaya Azad | 247 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Bangladesh Kalyan Party | RAM Ismail Faruk | 185 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 39,942 | 14.4 | -70.8 | ||
Turnout | 277,092 | 94.4 | +51.8 | ||
BNP hold | |||||
The BNP candidate died days before the 1 October 2001 general election. Voting in the constituency was postponed until 1 November. Mohammad Sahiduzzaman, the deceased's younger brother, ran in his place. [10]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BNP | Mohammad Sahiduzzaman | 113,895 | 91.9 | +48.6 | |
AL | Mostaq Ahmad Chowdhury | 8,312 | 6.7 | -19.3 | |
Independent | Lutfur Rahman Kajal | 746 | 0.6 | N/A | |
BKSMA (Sadeq) | Krishak Md. Sadeq | 539 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Bangladesh Manobatabadi Dal (Bamad) | Md. Omar Faruk | 237 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Independent | Ameer Mohammad Bachchu | 190 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 105,583 | 85.2 | +67.8 | ||
Turnout | 123,919 | 42.6 | -32.2 | ||
BNP hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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BNP | Mohammad Khalequzzaman | 69,119 | 43.3 | +14.0 | ||
AL | Mostaq Ahmad Chowdhury | 41,405 | 26.0 | -4.2 | ||
Jamaat-e-Islami | Salamat Ullah | 30,901 | 19.4 | -8.9 | ||
JP(E) | Nurul Abdar | 13,124 | 8.2 | +7.5 | ||
IOJ | Mohammad Muslem | 4,509 | 2.8 | N/A | ||
Independent | Didarul Alam Chowdhury | 393 | 0.2 | N/A | ||
Majority | 27,714 | 17.4 | +16.5 | |||
Turnout | 159,451 | 74.8 | +21.8 | |||
BNP gain from AL | ||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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AL | Mostaq Ahmad Chowdhury | 32,106 | 30.2 | |||
BNP | Mohammad Khalequzzaman | 31,109 | 29.3 | |||
Jamaat-e-Islami | Salamat Ullah | 30,141 | 28.3 | |||
NDP | Shahjahan Chowdhury | 9,913 | 9.3 | |||
BAKSAL | Nurul Islam | 1,686 | 1.6 | |||
JP(E) | Khorshed Ara Haque | 776 | 0.7 | |||
Independent | Hafez Ahmad | 222 | 0.2 | |||
Independent | Nurul Haque | 210 | 0.2 | |||
Independent | Munirul Alam Chowdhury | 159 | 0.1 | |||
Majority | 997 | 0.9 | ||||
Turnout | 106,322 | 53.0 | ||||
AL gain from JP(E) | ||||||
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