Kurigram-1

Kurigram-1
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Kurigram District
Division	Rangpur Division
Electorate	461,516 (2018)
Current constituency
Created	1984
Party	Awami League
Member(s)	A.K.M. Mostafizur Rahman
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Kurigram-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2019 by Aslam Hossain Saudagar of the Awami League.

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Bhurungamari and Nageshwari upazilas. ^{[1] [2]}

History

The constituency was created in 1984 from a Rangpur constituency when the former Rangpur District was split into five districts: Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat, Rangpur, Kurigram, and Gaibandha.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1986	A.K.M. Shahidul Islam	Jatiya Party [3] [4]
	February 1996	Saifur Rahman Rana	Bangladesh Nationalist Party [5]
	June 1996	A.K.M. Mostafizur Rahman	Jatiya Party (Ershad)
	2001	A.K.M. Mostafizur Rahman	Islami Jatiya Oikya Front
	2008	A.K.M. Mostafizur Rahman	Jatiya Party (Ershad)
	2018	Aslam Hossain Saudagar	Awami League [6]

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2014: Kurigram-1 ^{[7] [8] [9]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP(E)	A.K.M. Mostafizur Rahman [note 1]	74,720	69.9	+4.5
	Independent	Md. Abdul Hai [note 1]	30,613	28.7	N/A
	Jatiya Party (M)	Rashid Ahmed [note 1]	1,500	1.4	N/A
Majority			44,107	41.3	+13.8
Turnout			106,833	26.0	-62.0
	JP(E) hold

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2008: Kurigram-1 ^{[1] [10] [11]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP(E)	A.K.M. Mostafizur Rahman	209,899	65.4	N/A
	BNP	Saifur Rahman Rana	92,583	28.8	-5.6
	IAB	Golam Mostofa Md. Ansar Ali	17,465	5.4	N/A
	KSJL	Kazi Md. Latiful Kabir	1,221	0.4	N/A
Majority			117,316	27.5	+26.7
Turnout			321,168	88.0	+9.5
	JP(E) gain from IJOF

General Election 2001: Kurigram-1 ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	IJOF	A.K.M. Mostafizur Rahman	89,073	35.2	N/A
	BNP	Saifur Rahman Rana	87,157	34.4	+11.0
	AL	Md. Shamsul Haq Chowdhury	75,730	29.9	+4.7
	Jatiya Party (M)	Md. Ershadul Haque Dipu	543	0.2	N/A
	Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (Basad-Khalekuzzaman)	Jahedul Haque Milu	398	0.2	N/A
	JSD	Shree Gopinath Ray	279	0.1	N/A
Majority			1,916	0.8	-12.3
Turnout			253,180	78.5	+11.6
	IJOF gain from JP(E)

Elections in the 1990s

General Election June 1996: Kurigram-1 ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP(E)	A.K.M. Mostafizur Rahman	64,064	38.3	-0.5
	AL	Md. Mozammel Haque Prodhan	42,125	25.2	-1.2
	BNP	Saifur Rahman Rana	39,088	23.4	+12.1
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Md. Kamruddin	16,401	9.8	-11.8
	IOJ	Md. Abdur Rahman Prodhan	4,714	2.8	N/A
	Zaker Party	Kaflur Rahman	583	0.3	-0.3
	Gano Forum	Shahidul Islam	318	0.2	N/A
Majority			21,939	13.1	+0.7
Turnout			167,293	66.9	+20.8
	JP(E) hold

General Election 1991: Kurigram-1 ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP(E)	A.K.M. Shahidul Islam	46,476	38.8
	AL	Md. Abdus Sabur Chawdhury	31,630	26.4
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Md. Kamruddin	25,876	21.6
	BNP	Md. Khairul Alam	13,543	11.3
	Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dal (Khalekuzzaman)	Md. Zahedul Haq	805	0.7
	Zaker Party	Md. Kafilur Rahman	659	0.6
	CPB	Md. Abdul Hai	477	0.4
	IOJ	Fazlul Haq Chairman	290	0.2
Majority			14,846	12.4
Turnout			119,756	46.1
	JP(E) hold

Notes

1. Sources vary with regard to the 2014 vote count. They report between 74,429 and 74,720 votes for the winner, between 30,172 and 38,172 votes for the runner up, and between 0 and 1,601 votes for the third place finisher, but the discrepancies in the figures are not large enough to change the overall outcome.

References

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6. "Kurigram-1". The Daily Star. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
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11. "Nomination submission List". Bangladesh Election Commission (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 11 February 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
12. "Parliament Election Result of 1991,1996,2001 Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics". Vote Monitor Networks. Archived from the original on 24 December 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2018.

External links

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

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