Pabna-2 | |
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Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad | |
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District | Pabna District |
Division | Rajshahi Division |
Electorate | 300,789 (2018) [1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1973 |
Pabna-2 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2019 by Ahmed Firoz Kabir of the Awami League.
The constituency encompasses Sujanagar Upazila and the five southernmost union parishads of Bera Upazila: Dhalar Char, Jatsakhni, Masundia, Puran Bharenga, and Ruppur. [2] [3]
The constituency was created for the first general elections in newly independent Bangladesh, held in 1973.
Election | Member | Party | |
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1973 | Syed Haider Ali | Awami League [4] | |
1979 | M. A. Matin | BNP [5] | |
Major Boundary Changes | |||
1986 | Mokbul Hossain | Jatiya Party [6] [7] | |
1991 | Osman Ghani Khan | BNP | |
Feb 1996 | A K M Selim Reza Habib | ||
Jun 1996 | Ahmed Tafiz Uddin | Awami League | |
1998 by-election | Abdul Karim Khandker | ||
2001 | A K M Selim Reza Habib | BNP | |
2008 | Abdul Karim Khandker | Awami League | |
2014 | Azizul Huq Arzu | ||
2018 | Ahmed Firoz Kabir |
Azizul Huq Arzu was elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election. [8]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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AL | A. K. Khandker | 116,730 | 55.1 | +8.6 | ||
BNP | A K M Selim Reza Habib | 95,000 | 44.9 | −8.0 | ||
Majority | 21,730 | 10.3 | +4.0 | |||
Turnout | 211,730 | 90.1 | +11.7 | |||
AL gain from BNP |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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BNP | A K M Selim Reza Habib | 97,704 | 52.9 | +6.0 | ||
AL | Mirza Abdul Jalil | 86,013 | 46.5 | −1.5 | ||
IJOF | Md. Nurul Islam | 1,010 | 0.5 | N/A | ||
Independent | Md. Masud Ahmed | 125 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
Majority | 11,691 | 6.3 | +5.2 | |||
Turnout | 184,852 | 78.4 | −4.3 | |||
BNP gain from AL |
Ahmed Tafiz Uddin died in June 1998. Abdul Karim Khandker of the Awami League was elected in a by-election. [12]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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AL | Ahmed Tafiz Uddin | 67,250 | 48.0 | +8.5 | ||
BNP | A K M Selim Reza Habib | 65,745 | 46.9 | −8.4 | ||
JI | Md. Hatem Ali | 3,979 | 2.8 | N/A | ||
JP(E) | Mokbul Hossain | 2,451 | 1.7 | +1.0 | ||
Zaker Party | Md. A. Wahab | 424 | 0.3 | −2.1 | ||
Independent | Khandakar Golam Mortuza | 177 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
Independent | Md. Ferdous Alam Khan | 159 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
Majority | 1,505 | 1.1 | −14.8 | |||
Turnout | 140,185 | 82.7 | +24.1 | |||
AL gain from BNP |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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BNP | Osman Ghani Khan | 67,431 | 55.3 | |||
AL | Ahmed Tafiz Uddin | 48,086 | 39.5 | |||
Zaker Party | Md. A. Wahab | 2,938 | 2.4 | |||
NAP (Muzaffar) | Ronesh Moitra | 1,050 | 0.9 | |||
JP(E) | Mokbul Hossain | 908 | 0.7 | |||
Independent | Md. Hasan Monjur | 882 | 0.7 | |||
NAP (Bhashani) | Md. Saudur Rahman | 445 | 0.4 | |||
NDP | Khandakar Golam Mortuza | 100 | 0.1 | |||
Majority | 19,345 | 15.9 | ||||
Turnout | 121,840 | 58.6 | ||||
BNP gain from JP(E) |
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