Dhaka-12 | |
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Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad | |
District | Dhaka District |
Division | Dhaka Division |
Electorate | 339,840 (2018) [1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1973 |
Parliamentary Party | Bangladesh Awami League |
Member of Parliament | Asaduzzaman Khan |
City Council area | Dhaka North City Corporation |
Prev. Constituency | Dhaka-11 |
Next Constituency | Dhaka-13 |
Dhaka-12 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Asaduzzaman Khan of the Awami League.
The constituency encompasses Dhaka North City Corporation wards 24 through 27, 35, and 36. [2]
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 added 7 new seats to the Dhaka metropolitan area, increasing the number of constituencies in the capital from 8 to 15, and altered the boundaries of the constituency. [4]
Election | Member | Party | |
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1973 | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | Awami League [5] | |
1979 | Jahangir Mohammad Adel | Bangladesh Nationalist Party [6] | |
Major Boundary Changes | |||
1986 | Shamsuddoha Khan Majlish | Awami League [7] | |
1988 | Ashraf Uddin Khan Imu | [8] | |
1991 | Md. Niamatullah | Bangladesh Nationalist Party | |
February 1996 | Bangladesh Nationalist Party | ||
June 1996 | Dewan Md. Salauddin | Bangladesh Nationalist Party | |
2001 | Bangladesh Nationalist Party | ||
Major Boundary Changes | |||
2008 | Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh | Awami League | |
Major Boundary Changes | |||
2014 | Asaduzzaman Khan | Awami League | |
2018 | Awami League | ||
Asaduzzaman Khan was elected unopposed in the 2014 General Election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election. [9]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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AL | Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh | 118,136 | 62.0 | +22.0 | ||
BNP | Khandaker Mahbub Ahmad | 69,262 | 36.3 | -20.8 | ||
IAB | Md. Abdul Awal | 2,552 | 1.3 | N/A | ||
Gano Forum | Nurun Nahar Habib | 193 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
United Citizen Movement | Md. Shahidul Islam Khan | 158 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
Independent | Md. Afzal Hossain Bachchu | 127 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
BRWP | Md. Baharana Sultan Bahar | 117 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD | Abul Kalam Azad | 112 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
Majority | 48,874 | 25.6 | +8.6 | |||
Turnout | 190,657 | 73.1 | +3.4 | |||
AL gain from BNP | ||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BNP | Dewan Md. Salauddin | 139,788 | 57.1 | +12.4 | |
AL | Talukdar Mohammad Towhid Jung Murad | 98,062 | 40.0 | +10.3 | |
IJOF | Md. Neyamat Ullah | 5,708 | 2.3 | N/A | |
BKA | Hafez Maulana Ali Abbas | 767 | 0.3 | -0.6 | |
CPB | Lina Chakrabarti | 359 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Jatiya Party (M) | Md. Khandokar Shahin Aldin Rejvi | 177 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 41,726 | 17.0 | +2.0 | ||
Turnout | 244,861 | 69.7 | -5.2 | ||
BNP hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BNP | Dewan Md. Salauddin | 71,243 | 44.7 | -7.3 | |
AL | Ashraf Uddin Khan Imu | 47,343 | 29.7 | -1.0 | |
JP(E) | Md. Firoj Kabir | 33,361 | 21.0 | +18.4 | |
Jamaat-e-Islami | Md. Hasan Mahabub | 4,450 | 2.8 | -0.8 | |
BKA | Mohammad Samsuddin | 1,357 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Zaker Party | Md. Nazim Uddin | 595 | 0.4 | -0.6 | |
NAP | Md. Mafijul Islam | 421 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Gano Forum | Siraj Uddin Ahmed | 366 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Jatiya Janata Party (Asad) | Gazi Nazrul Islam | 67 | 0.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 23,900 | 15.0 | -6.4 | ||
Turnout | 159,203 | 74.9 | +15.6 | ||
BNP hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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BNP | Md. Niamatullah | 63,279 | 52 | |||
AL | Shamsuddoha Khan Majlish | 37,298 | 30.7 | |||
Independent | Ashraf Uddin Khan Imu | 8,279 | 6.8 | |||
Jamaat-e-Islami | Md. Shahidul Islam | 4,402 | 3.6 | |||
JP(E) | Mezbah | 3,119 | 2.6 | |||
CPB | Mujahidul Islam Selim | 2,282 | 1.9 | |||
Zaker Party | Abul Hasan | 1,211 | 1.0 | |||
BKA | Md. Shamsuddin | 861 | 0.7 | |||
NAP (Muzaffar) | Mafizul Islam | 673 | 0.6 | |||
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD | Abul Hossain | 282 | 0.2 | |||
Majority | 25,981 | 21.4 | ||||
Turnout | 121,686 | 59.3 | ||||
BNP gain from | ||||||
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