Dhaka-2 | |
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Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad | |
District | Dhaka District |
Division | Dhaka Division |
Electorate | 494,346 (2018) [1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1973 |
Party | Awami League |
Member(s) | Qamrul Islam |
Dhaka-2 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008 by Qamrul Islam of the Awami League.
The constituency encompasses Dhaka South City Corporation wards 55 through 57; one union parishad of Kamrangirchar and Hazaribagh thanas: Sultanganj; seven union parishads of Keraniganj Upazila: Basta, Hazratpur, Kalatia, Kalindi, Ruhitpur, Sakta, and Taranagar; and three union parishads of Savar Upazila: Amin Bazar, Bhakurta, and Tetuljhora. [2] [3]
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]
Election | Member | Party | |
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1973 | Moslem Uddin Khan | Awami League [6] | |
1979 | Abdul Halim Chowdhury | Bangladesh Nationalist Party [7] | |
Major Boundary Changes | |||
1986 | Burhan Uddin Khan | Awami League [8] [9] | |
1988 | Combined opposition | ||
1991 | Abdul Mannan | Bangladesh Nationalist Party | |
Feb 1996 | |||
June 1996 | |||
2001 | |||
2008 | Qamrul Islam | Awami League | |
2014 | |||
January 2018 | |||
January 2024 |
Qamrul Islam was re-elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election. [10]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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AL | Qamrul Islam | 180,172 | 57.0 | +8.3 | ||
BNP | Md. Matiur Rahman | 124,600 | 39.4 | -11.1 | ||
IAB | Ruhul Amin | 4,831 | 1.5 | N/A | ||
BTF | Syed Nazibul Bashar Maizvandary | 2,017 | 0.6 | N/A | ||
Zaker Party | Md. Josim Uddin | 1,971 | 0.6 | N/A | ||
BKA | Md. Habibullah | 1,787 | 0.6 | N/A | ||
BDB | Fazlul Haque | 352 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
Gano Front | Hammed Ali Sheikh | 248 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
Bangladesh Kalyan Party | Md. Mubinul Haque | 187 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
Majority | 55,572 | 17.6 | +15.8 | |||
Turnout | 316,165 | 83.6 | +5.1 | |||
AL gain from BNP | ||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BNP | Abdul Mannan | 70,958 | 50.5 | +3.5 | |
AL | Mohammad Noor Ali | 68,414 | 48.7 | +17.0 | |
IJOF | M. R. Haroon | 906 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Jatiya Party (M) | Matiur Rahman | 211 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,544 | 1.8 | -13.4 | ||
Turnout | 140,489 | 78.5 | -1.1 | ||
BNP hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BNP | Abdul Mannan | 50,818 | 47.0 | +5.2 | |
AL | A. Baten Mian | 34,344 | 31.7 | N/A | |
JP(E) | A. K. M. Abdul Halim | 20,492 | 18.9 | +4.6 | |
Jamaat-e-Islami | Minhaz Uddin | 1,565 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Zaker Party | Md. Kazi Ferdous | 503 | 0.5 | -1.9 | |
WPB | Khandokar Ali Abbas | 221 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Gano Forum | Nur Mohammed Sharifi | 153 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Independent | Sudhir Kumar Hazra | 62 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Independent | Dewan Kamal Anwar | 26 | 0.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 16,474 | 15.2 | +5.6 | ||
Turnout | 108,184 | 79.6 | +22.2 | ||
BNP hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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BNP | Abdul Mannan | 37,415 | 41.8 | |||
BAKSAL | Azizur Rahman | 28,820 | 32.2 | |||
JP(E) | Sudhir Kumar Hazra | 12,778 | 14.3 | |||
UCL | Siraj Uddin Ahmed | 7,284 | 8.1 | |||
Zaker Party | Arshed Gazi | 2,135 | 2.4 | |||
Independent | Dewan Mintu | 429 | 0.5 | |||
Bangladesh Jatiya Tanti Dal | Siraj Uddin | 302 | 0.3 | |||
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD | Nazirul Islam | 182 | 0.2 | |||
Independent | Abu Md. Subid Ali | 61 | 0.1 | |||
Majority | 8,595 | 9.6 | ||||
Turnout | 89,406 | 57.4 | ||||
BNP gain from AL | ||||||
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