Lalmonirhat-2

Lalmonirhat-2
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Lalmonirhat District
Division	Rangpur Division
Electorate	346,334 (2018) [1]
Current constituency
Created	1984
Party	AL
Member(s)	Nuruzzaman Ahmed
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Lalmonirhat-2 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Nuruzzaman Ahmed of the Awami League.

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Aditmari and Kaliganj upazilas. ^{[2] [3]}

History

The constituency was created in 1984 from the Rangpur-6 constituency when the former Rangpur District was split into five districts: Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat, Rangpur, Kurigram, and Gaibandha.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1986	Mojibur Rahman	Jatiya Party [4] [5]
	February 1996	Saleh Uddin Ahmed	Bangladesh Nationalist Party [6]
	June 1996	Mojibur Rahman	Jatiya Party [7]
	2001	Mojibur Rahman	Islami Jatiya Oikya Front
	2008	Mojibur Rahman	Jatiya Party (Ershad)
	2014	Nuruzzaman Ahmed	Awami League

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Nuruzzaman Ahmed was elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election. ^[8]

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2008: Lalmonirhat-2 ^{[2] [9] [10]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP(E)	Mojibur Rahman	161,677	69.4	N/A
	BNP	Saleh Uddin Ahmed	61,599	26.4	+2.2
	IAB	Md. Ebrahim Hossain Khan	9,692	4.2	N/A
Majority			100,078	43.0	+41.2
Turnout			232,968	86.6	+14.3
	JP(E) gain from IJOF

General Election 2001: Lalmonirhat-2 ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	IJOF	Mojibur Rahman	60,468	34.5	N/A
	Independent	Nuruzzaman Ahmed	57,265	32.7	N/A
	BNP	Saleh Uddin Ahmed	42,298	24.2	+13.7
	AL	Md. Emdadul Haque Chowdhury	14,309	8.2	-28.1
	Jatiya Party (M)	Hasan Shahid Monju	787	0.4	N/A
Majority			3,203	1.8	-4.1
Turnout			175,127	72.3	+2.2
	IJOF gain from JP(E)

Elections in the 1990s

General Election June 1996: Lalmonirhat-2 ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP(E)	Mojibur Rahman	57,804	42.2	-4.1
	AL	Nuruzzaman Ahmed	49,683	36.3	-1.6
	BNP	Md. Abdul Mannan Sarkar	14,399	10.5	+4.7
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Md. Samsul Haque	11,713	8.5	+0.7
	Independent	Md. Fazlur Rahman	2,302	1.7	N/A
	Gano Forum	Md. Emdadul Haque	709	0.5	N/A
	Zaker Party	Md. Rezaul Karim Manik	402	0.3	-0.1
Majority			8,121	5.9	-2.5
Turnout			137,012	70.1	+15.0
	JP(E) hold

General Election 1991: Lalmonirhat-2 ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP(E)	Mojibur Rahman	51,755	46.3
	AL	Shamsul Islam	42,413	37.9
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Md. Abdul Wares	8,715	7.8
	BNP	Abdul Hamid	6,474	5.8
	IOJ	Md. Sultan Ahmed	1,352	1.2
	Zaker Party	Md. Kazi Altafur Rahman	447	0.4
	WPB	Md. Kamrul Hasan Siddique	341	0.3
	Independent	Shree Jitindro Nath	294	0.3
Majority			9,342	8.4
Turnout			111,791	55.1
	JP(E) hold

References

1. "Lalmonirhat-2". The Daily Star. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
2. "Constituency Maps of Bangladesh" (PDF). Bangladesh Election Commission. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
3. "Delimitation of Constituencies" (PDF). Bangladesh Election Commission (in Bengali). 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
4. "List of 3rd Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
5. "List of 4th Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
6. "List of 6th Parliament Members" (PDF). Jatiya Sangsad . Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
7. "List of 7th Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
8. Ahmed, Taib (15 December 2013). "AL closer to majority before voting". New Age. Dhaka. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
9. "Bangladesh Parliament Election - Detail Results". Amar Desh. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
10. "Nomination submission List". Bangladesh Election Commission (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 11 February 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
11. "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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