Panchagarh-2

Panchagarh-2
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Panchagarh District
Division	Rangpur Division
Electorate	417,529 (2026)
Current constituency
Created	1984
Parliamentary Party	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Member of Parliament	Farhad Hossain Azad
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Panchagarh-2 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. The current Member of Parliament in this constituency is Farhad Hossain Azad of Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses all the unions of Boda and Debiganj upazilas and the Boda Municipality. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

History

The constituency was created in 1984 from a Dinajpur constituency when the former Dinajpur District was split into three districts: Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, and Dinajpur. ^[4]

Ahead of the 2026 general election, the Election Commission expanded the boundaries of the constituency to include the boda Pourashova area of atwari upazilla. ^[5]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1986	Mohammad Farhad	Communist Party of Bangladesh [6]
	1988	Md. Kamiz Uddin	Jatiya Party (Ershad) [7]
	1991	Mozahar Hossain	Communist Party of Bangladesh
	1996		Bangladesh Nationalist Party
	2008	Nurul Islam Sujon	Bangladesh Awami League
	2026	Farhad Hossain Azad	Bangladesh Nationalist Party

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2026: Panchagarh-2 ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Farhad Hossain Azad	174,650	57.55	+11.65
	Jamaat	Md. Shafiul Alam	128,862	42.45	+33.45
Majority			45,788	15.08	−72.22
Turnout			303,512	72.70	+32.70
Registered electors			417,529
	BNP gain from AL

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2014: Panchagarh-2 ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Nurul Islam Sujan	107,360	93.6	+33.2
	JSD	Md Emran Al Amin	7,292	6.4	N/A
Majority			100,068	87.3	+65.8
Turnout			114,652	40.0	−53.0
	AL hold

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2008: Panchagarh-2 ^{[1] [10] [11]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Nurul Islam Sujan	142,488	60.4	+16.7
	BNP	Mozahar Hossain	91,700	38.9	−7.0
	CPB	Md. Ashraful Alam	926	0.4	−0.5
	BTF	Md. Soona Miah	731	0.3	N/A
Majority			50,788	21.5	+19.3
Turnout			235,845	93.0	+7.9
	AL gain from BNP

General Election 2001: Panchagarh-2 ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Mozahar Hossain	83,653	45.9	+10.0
	AL	Nurul Islam Sujan	79,602	43.7	+9.1
	IJOF	Md. Shafiul Alam Pradhan	16,357	9.0	N/A
	CPB	Md. Salim Uddin	1,673	0.9	+0.2
	Independent	Taslim Uddin Ahmed	898	0.5	N/A
	Jatiya Party (M)	Md. Jahangir Alam	91	0.0	N/A
Majority			4,051	2.2	+0.9
Turnout			182,274	85.1	+8.4
	BNP hold

Elections in the 1990s

General Election June 1996: Panchagarh-2 ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Mozahar Hossain	48,534	35.9	+28.3
	AL	Md. Sirajul Islam	46,815	34.6	N/A
	JP(E)	Md. Kamiz Uddin	25,630	18.9	−4.8
	Jamaat	Md. Saidur Rahman	12,557	9.3	−4.4
	CPB	Md. Salim Uddin	952	0.7	−38.5
	Zaker Party	Md. Mansur Ali	459	0.3	−0.2
	Independent	Md. Ashraful Islam	395	0.3	N/A
Majority			1,719	1.3	−14.1
Turnout			135,342	76.7	+16.3
	BNP gain from CPB

General Election 1991: Panchagarh-2 ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPB	Mozahar Hossain	42,335	39.1
	JP(E)	Md. Kamiz Uddin	25,660	23.7
	BNP	Md. Abdul Aziz	17,300	16.0
	Jamaat	Md. Saidur Rahman	14,815	13.7
	Independent	Md. Nurul Amin	6,071	5.6
	Independent	ASM Nuruzzaman	930	0.9
	Zaker Party	Md. Mansur Ali	543	0.5
	FP	Md. Abdal Adil Alvi	355	0.3
	Independent	Md. Safiullah	137	0.1
Majority			16,675	15.4
Turnout			108,146	60.4
	CPB gain from JP(E)

References

1. "Constituency Maps of Bangladesh" (PDF). Bangladesh Election Commission. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
2. "Delimitation of Constituencies" (PDF). Bangladesh Election Commission (in Bengali). 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
3. "(নং-৬৫৫) ত্রয়োদশ জাতীয় সংসদ নির্বাচন উপলক্ষ্যে জাতীয় সংসদের নির্বাচনি এলাকার সীমানার পুন:নির্ধারনি চূড়ান্ত তালিকা-২০২৫ প্রকাশ।".
4. "District Statistics 2011: Dinajpur" (PDF). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2018. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
5. Deepto, Ahmed (2025-09-04). "EC finalises 300 constituency boundaries, redraws 46 seats". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2025-09-05.
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8. "পঞ্চগড়-২". প্রথম আলো (in Bengali).
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11. "Nomination submission List". Bangladesh Election Commission (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 11 February 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
12. "Parliament Election Result of 1991, 1996, 2001 Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics". Vote Monitor Networks. Archived from the original on 22 December 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2018.

External links

• "People's Republic of Bangladesh". Psephos.

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