| Pabna-1 | |
|---|---|
| Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad | |
| | |
| District | Pabna District |
| Division | Rajshahi Division |
| Electorate | 377,706 (2018) [1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1973 |
Pabna-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. Since 6 August 2024, the constituency remains vacant.
The constituency encompasses the Santhia Upazila. [2] [3] [4]
The constituency was created for the first general elections in newly independent Bangladesh, held in 1973.
Ahead of the 2026 general election, the Election Commission decided to reduce the boundaries of the constituency to exclude Bera Municipality, and four union parishads of Bera Upazila: Chakla, Haturia Nakalia, Kytola, and Nutan Bharenga. [5]
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Muhammad Mansur Ali | Awami League [6] | |
| 1979 | Jahurul Islam Talukdar | BNP [7] | |
| Major Boundary Changes | |||
| 1986 | Manzur Quader | Jatiya Party [8] [9] | |
| 1991 | Matiur Rahman Nizami | Jamaat-e-Islami | |
| Feb 1996 | Manzur Quader | BNP | |
| Jun 1996 | Abu Sayeed | Awami League | |
| 2001 | Matiur Rahman Nizami | Jamaat-e-Islami | |
| 2008 | Shamsul Hoque Tuku | Awami League | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL | Shamsul Hoque Tuku | 67,029 | 59.1 | +5.4 | |
| Independent | Abu Sayeed | 44,579 | 39.3 | N/A | |
| WPB | Nazrul Islam | 1,093 | 1.0 | N/A | |
| JP(E) | Yasin Arafat | 661 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 22,450 | 19.8 | +11.6 | ||
| Turnout | 113,362 | 34.0 | −57.2 | ||
| AL hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL | Shamsul Hoque Tuku | 145,012 | 53.7 | +12.1 | ||
| JI | Matiur Rahman Nizami | 122,944 | 45.6 | −12.1 | ||
| IAB | Abdul Motin | 1,049 | 0.4 | N/A | ||
| National People's Party | Rezaul Karim | 624 | 0.2 | N/A | ||
| Majority | 22,068 | 8.2 | −7.9 | |||
| Turnout | 269,629 | 91.2 | +9.4 | |||
| AL gain from JI | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JI | Matiur Rahman Nizami | 135,982 | 57.7 | +33.8 | ||
| AL | Abu Sayeed | 98,113 | 41.6 | +0.1 | ||
| IJOF | Quari Sharif Ahmmed | 1,347 | 0.6 | N/A | ||
| Independent | Md. Abdul Hakim Bos | 317 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
| Majority | 37,869 | 16.1 | +7.8 | |||
| Turnout | 235,759 | 81.8 | −2.4 | |||
| JI gain from AL | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL | Abu Sayeed | 73,335 | 41.5 | N/A | ||
| BNP | Monzur Kader | 58,652 | 33.2 | +16.8 | ||
| JI | Matiur Rahman Nizami | 42,265 | 23.9 | −13.0 | ||
| JP(E) | Md. Anwar Hossian | 1,231 | 0.7 | −10.8 | ||
| IOJ | Sayeef Uddin Yahia | 902 | 0.5 | N/A | ||
| Independent | Deqan Sultan Mahmud | 198 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
| FP | Shek Abdul Aziz | 99 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
| Majority | 14,683 | 8.3 | +4.5 | |||
| Turnout | 176,682 | 84.2 | +18.8 | |||
| AL gain from JI | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JI | Matiur Rahman Nizami | 55,707 | 36.9 | |||
| BAKSAL | Abu Sayeed | 49,923 | 33.0 | |||
| BNP | Mirza Abdul Auwal | 24,812 | 16.4 | |||
| JP(E) | Monzur Kader | 17,451 | 11.5 | |||
| Zaker Party | Md. Golam Nobi | 2,079 | 1.4 | |||
| NAP (Muzaffar) | Md. Ahad Ali | 448 | 0.3 | |||
| Independent | Shamsul Haq | 416 | 0.3 | |||
| BKA | Md. Nazrul Islam | 332 | 0.2 | |||
| Majority | 5,784 | 3.8 | ||||
| Turnout | 151,158 | 65.4 | ||||
| JI gain from JP(E) | ||||||
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