Mayor of Rangpur | |
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Rangpur City Corporation | |
Style | The Honourable |
Type | Head of the City |
Status | Chief Executive |
Member of | Rangpur City Corporation |
Reports to | Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives |
Seat | Nagar Bhaban, Rangpur |
Nominator | Directly elected by vote |
Appointer | Prime Minister of Bangladesh |
Term length | Five years, renewable |
Inaugural holder | Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu |
Formation | 28 June 2012 |
Deputy | Panel Mayor |
Salary | ৳ 10,20,000 annually (US$ 11,989) |
Website | www |
The mayor of Rangpur City is the chief executive of the Rangpur City Corporation in Bangladesh. The mayor's office administers all city services, public property, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within Rangpur City. [1]
The mayor's office is located in Nagar Bhaban; it has jurisdiction over all 33 wards of Rangpur City.
Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Election | Term of office | Tenure | Party | Reference | ||
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Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu (1952-2018) | 2012 | 28 June 2012 | 20 December 2017 | 5 years, 145 days | Bangladesh Awami League | [2] [3] | ||
Mostafizur Rahman Mostafa | 2017 2022 | 21 December 2017 | Incumbent | 6 years, 50 days | Jatiya Party (Ershad) | [4] [5] |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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JP(E) | Mostafizur Rahman Mostafa | 1,46,798 | 52.44% | N/A | |
IAB | Md. Amiruzzaman Hossain | 49,892 | 17.82% | N/A | |
Independent | Latifur Rahman Milon | 33,883 | 12.10% | N/A | |
AL | Hosne Ara Lutfa Dalia | 22,309 | 7.97% | N/A | |
Majority | 96,906 | ||||
Turnout | 2,52,882 | 65.88% | |||
Registered electors | 4,26,469 | ||||
JP(E) hold | |||||
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