Feni-1 | |
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Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad | |
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District | Feni District |
Division | Chattogram Division |
Electorate | 305,055 (2018) [1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1984 |
Party | AL |
Member(s) | Alauddin Ahmed Chowdhury Nasim |
Feni-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Alauddin Ahmed Chowdhury Nasim of the Awami League.
The constituency encompasses Chhagalnaiya, Fulgazi, and Parshuram upazilas. [2] [3]
The constituency was created in 1984 from the Noakhali-1 constituency when the former Noakhali District was split into three districts: Feni, Noakhali, and Lakshmipur.
Key
Election | Member | Party | |
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1986 | Zafar Imam | Awami League [4] [5] | |
1988 | |||
1991 | Khaleda Zia | Bangladesh Nationalist Party | |
1996 Feb | |||
1996 June | |||
2001 | |||
Nov 2001 by-election | Sayeed Iskander | ||
2008 | Khaleda Zia | ||
2014 | Shirin Akhter | Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal | |
2018 | |||
2024 | Alauddin Ahmed Chowdhury Nasim | Awami League | |
Shirin Akhter was elected unopposed in the 2014 General Election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election. [6]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BNP | Khaleda Zia | 114,482 | 65.4 | -6.8 | |
AL | Faiz Ahmed | 58,551 | 33.4 | +7.7 | |
BDB | Mohalled Ilias Zakaria | 1,215 | 0.7 | ||
BIF | Mohammead Rafiqul Islam Patwari | 596 | 0.3 | ||
BSD | Rezaul Karim | 235 | 0.1 | ||
Majority | 55,931 | 31.9 | |||
Turnout | 175,079 | 78.7 | |||
BNP hold | Swing | -7.25 | |||
Khaleda Zia stood for five seats in the 2001 general election: Bogra-6, Bogra-7, Khulna-2, Feni-1, and Lakshmipur-2. After winning all five, she chose to represent Bogra-6 and quit the other four, triggering by-elections in them. [9] [10] Sayeed Iskander, her brother, was elected in a November 2001 by-election. [11]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BNP | Khaleda Zia | 103,149 | 72.2 | +16.6 | |
AL | Zafar Imam | 36,763 | 25.7 | +5.1 | |
Independent | Fazlul Haq Chowdhury | 1,018 | 0.7 | N/A | |
IJOF | A. T. M. Golam Mawla Chowdhury | 688 | 0.5 | N/A | |
BIF | Ruhul Amin | 449 | 0.3 | +0.1 | |
BKA | Anowar Ullah Bhuiyan | 449 | 0.3 | +0.1 | |
Independent | Md. Redwan Ullah | 166 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Jatiya Party (M) | Salim Mohi Uddin | 162 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 66,386 | 46.5 | +11.5 | ||
Turnout | 142,844 | 69.1 | -5.4 | ||
BNP hold | Swing | +10.85 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BNP | Khaleda Zia | 65,086 | 55.6 | +16.9 | |
AL | M. Wazi. Ullah Bhuiyan | 24,138 | 20.6 | -4.1 | |
JP(E) | Zafar Imam | 15,897 | 13.6 | -10.4 | |
Jamaat-e-Islami | Md. Yunus | 8,480 | 7.2 | -1.5 | |
IOJ | Habibur Rahman | 1,758 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Pragotishi Jatiatabadi Dal (Nurul A Moula) | A. T. M. Golam Mawla Chowdhury | 385 | 0.3 | -0.2 | |
Zaker Party | Abdul Kalam Majumder | 300 | 0.3 | -0.2 | |
BKA | Anowar Ullah Bhuiyan | 289 | 0.2 | -0.2 | |
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD | Joinal Abedin | 265 | 0.2 | -0.2 | |
BIF | Ruhul Amin | 265 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Bangladesh Samyabadi Dal (Marxist-Leninist) | Safiqur Rahman Majumder | 156 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Gano Forum | Qazi Faruk | 133 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 40,948 | 35.0 | +21.1 | ||
Turnout | 117,152 | 74.5 | +29.1 | ||
BNP hold | Swing | +10.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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BNP | Khaleda Zia | 36,375 | 38.7 | |||
AL | Md. Zakaria Bhuiyan | 23,250 | 24.7 | |||
JP(E) | Zafar Imam | 22,601 | 24.0 | |||
Jamaat-e-Islami | Md. Yunus | 8,163 | 8.7 | |||
JSD | Shirin Akhter | 1,245 | 1.3 | |||
NAP (Muzaffar) | Mujibul Haq | 782 | 0.8 | |||
Pragotishi Jatiatabadi Dal (Nurul A Moula) | A. T. M. Golam Mawla Chowdhury | 517 | 0.5 | |||
Zaker Party | Abul Kalam | 452 | 0.5 | |||
BKA | Anwar Ullah | 367 | 0.4 | |||
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD | Mir Abdul Hannan | 351 | 0.4 | |||
Majority | 13,125 | 13.9 | ||||
Turnout | 94,103 | 45.4 | ||||
BNP gain from AL | ||||||
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