Dhaka-10

Dhaka-10
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Dhaka District
Division	Dhaka Division
Electorate	313,744 (2018) [1]
Current constituency
Created	1973
Parliamentary Party	Bangladesh Awami League
Member of Parliament	Ferdous Ahmed
City Council area	Dhaka South City Corporation
Prev. Constituency	Dhaka-9
Next Constituency	Dhaka-11

Dhaka-10 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Ferdous Ahmed of Awami League.

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Dhaka South City Corporation wards 14 through 18, and 22. ^{[2] [3]}

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. ^[4] The 2008 redistricting altered the boundaries of the constituency. ^[5]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1973	Khondakar Harun-ur-Rashid	Awami League [6]
	1979	Atauddin Khan	Bangladesh Nationalist Party [7]
Major Boundary Changes
	1986	Sheikh Hasina	Awami League [8]
	1988	A. S. M. Abdur Rab	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal [9]
	1991	Abdul Mannan	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
	Feb 1996		Bangladesh Nationalist Party
	June 1996	HBM Iqbal	Awami League
	2001	Abdul Mannan	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
	2004 by-election	Mohammad Mosaddak Ali
Major Boundary Changes
	2008	AKM Rahmatullah	Awami League
Major Boundary Changes
	2014	Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh	Awami League
	2018		Awami League
	(By-election) 2020	Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin	Awami League

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh was elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election. ^[10]

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2008: Dhaka-10 ^{[2] [11] [12]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	AKM Rahmatullah	165,549	63.3
	BNP	M. A. Quayum	89,800	34.3
	Independent	Muzammel Hoque	3,154	1.2
	IAB	Abdul Jalil	1,993	0.8
	LDP	Abu Soud	423	0.2
	BKA	Shahidullah Kazi	286	0.1
	KSJL	S. M Ismail	256	0.1
	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD	Md. Habibur Rahman	65	0.0
Majority			75,749	29.0
Turnout			261,526	74.9
	AL gain from BNP

Abdul Mannan resigned from parliament in March 2004 to join a new political party, Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh. Mannan's resignation triggered a July 2004 by-election, in which Mohammad Mosaddak Ali of the BNP was elected. ^[13]

General Election 2001: Dhaka-10 ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Abdul Mannan	94,995	54.6	+14.1
	AL	HBM Iqbal	73,043	42.0	-5.2
	IJOF	Khandokar Abu Motaher	4,451	2.6	N/A
	Independent	Stifen P. Mridha	575	0.3	N/A
	Independent	Md. Fazlul Haque	399	0.2	N/A
	Independent	Tofazzal Hossain Bhuiya	66	0.0	N/A
	Independent	Zobayed Hossain Tufan	51	0.0	N/A
	Jatiya Party (M)	Md. Abdur Rahman Shikder	50	0.0	N/A
	Independent	Md. Anowar Khan	49	0.0	N/A
	Independent	Md. Enamul Karim Suja	46	0.0	N/A
	BKSMA (Sadeq)	Krishak Md. Sadeq	38	0.0	N/A
	Samridhya Bangladesh Andolan	Md. Zakir Hossain	38	0.0	N/A
	Independent	Md. Delowar Hossain	37	0.0	N/A
	Independent	Sheikh Tawsif Xilani	33	0.0	N/A
	Independent	Md. Mostafa Talukder	30	0.0	N/A
	Independent	Mohammad Yusuf Haroon	29	0.0	N/A
	Independent	Abu Saleh Md. Kibria	24	0.0	N/A
Majority			21,952	12.6	+5.9
Turnout			173,954	56.1	-9.6
	BNP gain from AL

Elections in the 1990s

General Election June 1996: Dhaka-10 ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	HBM Iqbal	74,214	47.2	+9.4
	BNP	Abdul Mannan	63,631	40.5	-18.1
	JP(E)	Ismail Hossain Bangal	11,114	7.1	N/A
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Abdus Salam	4,973	3.2	N/A
	IOJ	Md. Waliul Islam	796	0.5	-0.1
	Zaker Party	M. A. Khaleq	626	0.4	-0.6
	Independent	Md. Ruhul Amin Chowdhury	552	0.4	N/A
	Sramik Krishak Samajbadi Dal	Nirmal Sen	394	0.3	N/A
	Jatiya Daridra Party	Md. Abdul Aziz Sarkar	150	0.1	N/A
	NAP (Bhashani)	Parveen Naser Khan Bhasani	133	0.1	N/A
	Independent	Khaled Shamsul Islam	125	0.1	N/A
	BKA	Md. Kamruddin	105	0.1	N/A
	Independent	Qaiduzzaman Azad	59	0.0	N/A
	Independent	Zobayed Hossain Tufan	53	0.0	N/A
	Bhasani Front	Mamataz Chowdhury	45	0.0	N/A
	Independent	Md. Abdul Khaleq	37	0.0	N/A
	Independent	Md. Enamul Karim Suja	31	0.0	N/A
	Progotishil Jatiatabadi Dal (Nurul A Moula)	S. M. Ahsan Ali	30	0.0	N/A
	Independent	Syad Motahar Hossain	27	0.0	N/A
Majority			10,583	6.7	-14.1
Turnout			157,095	65.7	+17.5
	AL gain from BNP

General Election 1991: Dhaka-10 ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Abdul Mannan	45,711	58.6
	AL	Sheikh Hasina	29,451	37.8
	Zaker Party	Idrees Hossain Talukdar	816	1.0
	Bangladesh Janata Party	Harun Ar Rashid Mithu	598	0.8
	IOJ	Abdul Based	438	0.6
	JSD	Mir Hossain Akhtar	435	0.6
	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD	A. S. M. Abdur Rab	208	0.3
	Bangladesh Inquilab Party	Ruhul Aamin Chowdhury	59	0.1
	Jatiya Janata Party (Asad)	M. D. Rahman	56	0.1
	Bangladesh Muslim League (Kader)	Md. Humayun Kabir	55	0.1
	NDP	Md. Enamul Karim Shuja	52	0.1
	Bangladesh People's League (Garib A Nawaz)	Jobaida Parvin	43	0.1
	Bangladesh National Congress	Shuvash Chandra Debnath	40	0.1
	Jatiyatabadi Gonotantrik Dal	Md. Zakir Hossain	29	0.0
Majority			16,260	20.8
Turnout			77,991	48.2
	BNP gain from JSD

References

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External links

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

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