Mymensingh-1 | |
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Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad | |
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District | Mymensingh District |
Division | Mymensingh Division |
Electorate | 377,296 (2018) [1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1973 |
Party | Independent |
Member(s) | Mahmudul Haque Sayem |
Mymensingh-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Mahmudul Haque Saeam.
The constituency encompasses Haluaghat Upazila and Dhobaura Upazila. [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]
Promode Mankin died in May 2016. Jewel Areng, his son, was elected in a July by-election. [10]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AL | Jewel Areng [note 1] | 170,234 | 91.6 | +31.5 | |
Independent | Selima Khatun | 14,338 | 7.7 | N/A | |
JP(E) | Sohrab Uddin Khan [note 2] | 1,586 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 155,846 | 83.8 | +62.1 | ||
Turnout | 185,896 | 51.3 | -44.3 | ||
AL hold | |||||
Promode Mankin was re-elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election. [12]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AL | Promode Mankin | 142,981 | 60.1 | +21.9 | |
BNP | Afzal H. Khan | 91,345 | 38.4 | +5.5 | |
IAB | Md. Ali Akbar | 3,487 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 51,636 | 21.7 | +16.4 | ||
Turnout | 237,813 | 95.6 | +20.3 | ||
AL hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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AL | Promode Mankin | 47,873 | 38.2 | +7.2 | ||
BNP | Afzal H. Khan | 41,280 | 32.9 | +1.9 | ||
IJOF | Ali Azgar | 35,770 | 28.5 | N/A | ||
Independent | Md. Habibur Rahman | 416 | 0.3 | N/A | ||
Majority | 6,593 | 5.3 | -6.9 | |||
Turnout | 125,339 | 75.3 | +5.4 | |||
AL gain from BNP | ||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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BNP | Afzal H.Khan | 42,349 | 43.2 | +20.1 | ||
AL | Promode Mankin | 30,410 | 31.0 | -5.6 | ||
JP(E) | Md. Emdadul Haque | 22,259 | 22.7 | -3.4 | ||
Jamaat-e-Islami | Md. Hafizur Rahman | 2,015 | 2.1 | N/A | ||
IOJ | Md. Abu Sayed | 629 | 0.6 | N/A | ||
Zaker Party | Abdus Samad Miah | 333 | 0.3 | +0.2 | ||
NAP | Md. Dewan Sirajul Islam Sarnali | 125 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
Majority | 11,939 | 12.2 | +1.7 | |||
Turnout | 98,120 | 69.9 | +17.8 | |||
BNP gain from AL | ||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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AL | Promode Mankin | 27,191 | 36.6 | |||
JP(E) | Md. Emdadul Haq | 19,390 | 26.1 | |||
BNP | Tafazzal Hossain Khan | 17,171 | 23.1 | |||
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD | Md. Ali Azgar | 9,878 | 13.3 | |||
Zaker Party | A. Samad | 689 | 0.9 | |||
Majority | 7,801 | 10.5 | ||||
Turnout | 74,319 | 52.1 | ||||
AL gain from JP(E) | ||||||
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