Dhaka-17 | |
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Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad | |
District | Dhaka District |
Division | Dhaka Division |
Electorate | 3,13,875 (2018) [1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2008 |
Parliamentary Party | Bangladesh Awami League |
Member of Parliament | Mohammad A. Arafat |
City Council area | Dhaka North City Corporation |
Prev. Constituency | Dhaka-16 |
Next Constituency | Dhaka-18 |
Dhaka-17 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh.
The constituency encompasses Dhaka Cantonment and Dhaka North City Corporation wards 15 and 18 through 20. This constituency mainly includes Gulshan, Banani, Niketan, Mohakhali, Baridhara, Shahjadpur and some parts of Dhaka Cantonment. [2] [3]
The constituency was created when, 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 added 7 new seats to the Dhaka metropolitan area, increasing the number of constituencies in the capital from 8 to 15. [5]
Key
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AL | Mohammad A. Arafat | 28,816 | 77.80 | N/A | |
Independent | Ashraful Alom | 5,609 | 15.14 | N/A | |
JP(E) | Sikdar Anisur Rahman | 1,328 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 37,037 | 11.51 | |||
Registered electors | 325,205 | ||||
AL hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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AL | Akbar Hossain Pathan Farooque | 1,64,610 | 79.8 | N/A | ||
BJP | Andaleeve Rahman | 38,639 | 18.7 | N/A | ||
IAB | Md Aminul Haque Talukdar | 2,665 | N/A | |||
JP(E) | Hussain Muhammad Ershad | 480 | N/A | |||
Majority | 1,25,971 | |||||
Turnout | 2,06,394 | 65.8 | ||||
Registered electors | 3,13,875 | |||||
AL gain from BNF | ||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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BNF | SM Abul Kalam Azad | 43,585 | 62.6 | N/A | ||
Jatiya Party (M) | Abdul Latif Mallik | 22,046 | 31.6 | N/A | ||
Independent | MA Hannan Mridha | 4,046 | 5.8 | N/A | ||
Majority | 21,539 | 30.9 | -5.6 | |||
Turnout | 69,677 | 24.0 | -46.7 | |||
BNF gain from JP(E) | ||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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JP(E) | Hussain Muhammad Ershad | 123,936 | 66.9 | N/A | |
BNP | Hannan Shah | 56,267 | 30.4 | N/A | |
Bangladesh Kalyan Party | Syad Mohammad Ibrahim | 2,773 | 1.5 | N/A | |
IAB | Md. Shamsul Hoque | 1,594 | 0.9 | N/A | |
BKA | Md. Shidullah Kazi | 275 | 0.1 | N/A | |
KSJL | Saleh Ahamed | 174 | 0.1 | N/A | |
United Citizen Movement | Imtiaz Mahmood | 159 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD | M. A. Rashid | 80 | 0.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 67,669 | 36.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 185,258 | 70.7 | N/A | ||
JP(E) win (new seat) |
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