Tangail-8

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Tangail-8
Constituency
for the Jatiya Sangsad
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District Tangail District
Division Dhaka Division
Electorate346,646 (2018) [1]
Current constituency
Created1973

Tangail-8 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament).

Contents

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Basail and Sakhipur upazilas. [2] [3]

History

The constituency was created for the first general elections in newly independent Bangladesh, held in 1973.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1973 Fazlur Rahman Faruque Awami League [4]
1979 Morshed Ali Khan Panni BNP [5]
Major Boundary Changes
1986 Shawkat Momen Shahjahan Awami League [6]
1988 Morshed Ali Khan Panni Jatiya Party [7] [8]
1991 Humayun Khan Panni BNP
1996 Abdul Kader Siddique Awami League
1999 by-election Shawkat Momen Shahjahan
2001 Abdul Kader Siddique Krishak Sramik Janata League
2008 Shawkat Momen Shahjahan Awami League [1]
2014 by-election Anupam Shahjahan Joy
2018 Joaherul Islam
2024 Anupam Shahjahan Joy

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Shawkat Momen Shahjahan died in January 2014, barely two weeks after the general election. Anupam Shahjahan Joy, his son, was elected in a by-election conducted in March and April. He defeated independent candidates Md. Malek Mian, Abu Sayed Azad, and Liakat Ali, and Jatiya Party (Ershad) candidate Sadek Siddiqui. [9] [10]

Shawkat Momen Shahjahan was re-elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election. [11]

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2008: Tangail-8 [2] [12] [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AL Shawkat Momen Shahjahan 134,62656.0+27.1
BNP Ahmed Aazam Khan65,52127.2+0.1
KSJL Abdul Kader Siddiqui 38,77516.1−26.6
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD Shafiul Alam7560.3N/A
BRWP Shohiduzzaman Lal Miah5670.2N/A
LDP Sheikh Faruquzzaman2930.1N/A
Majority 69,10528.7+14.9
Turnout 240,53888.8+17.8
AL gain from KSJL
General Election 2001: Tangail-8 [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
KSJL Abdul Kader Siddique 80,55842.7
AL Abdus Salam Khan54,50528.9
BNP Ahmed Azam Khan51,13527.1
IJOF Md. Rezaul Karim1,3060.7
Independent Nasir Uddin8770.5
Jatiya Party (M) Nilufar Yasmin3510.2
Majority 26,05313.8
Turnout 188,73271.0
KSJL gain from AL

Elections in the 1990s

Abdul Kader Siddique was expelled from the Awami League in 1999 over disagreements with party leadership. [15] [16] He resigned from Parliament, [17] and stood as an independent candidate in the resulting November 1999 by-election. He lost to Shawkat Momen Shahjahan of the Awami League. [18] [19]

General Election June 1996: Tangail-8 [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AL Abdul Kader Siddique 100,30362.6+17.1
BNP Md. Qamruzzaman Khan35,34322.1−25.2
JP(E) Shah Khaled Reza20,48512.8+7.9
JI Khandakar Abdur Razzak2,5821.6N/A
FP Md. A. Based8850.6N/A
Zaker PartyMd. Sohrab Ali3630.2−0.1
Gano Forum Ershadul Haque Bulbul1680.1N/A
Majority 64,69040.4+38.6
Turnout 160,12978.4+23.6
AL gain from BNP
General Election 1991: Tangail-8 [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BNP Humayun Khan Panni 61,39647.3
AL Abdul Kader Siddique 59,08945.5
JP(E) Morshed Ali Khan Ponni6,3094.9
JSD (S) Md. Abul Hashim1,5621.2
Jatiya Jukta FrontMd. Ashraf Ali5580.4
Zaker PartyMd. Abdullah Miah3220.3
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD A. Samad2710.2
NDPKh. Ruhul Amin Selim2330.2
Majority 2,3071.8
Turnout 129,74054.8
BNP gain from JP(E)

References

  1. 1 2 "Tangail-8". The Daily Star. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Constituency Maps of Bangladesh" (PDF). Bangladesh Election Commission. 2010. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Delimitation of Constituencies" (PDF). Bangladesh Election Commission (in Bengali). 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  4. ↑ "List of 1st Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 February 2018.
  5. ↑ "List of 2nd Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "List of 3rd Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  7. ↑ "List of 4th Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  8. ↑ সংশোধনী [Correction]. Daily Jugantor (in Bengali). 26 December 2017.
  9. ↑ "Tangail-8 by-polls end, counting on". bdnews24.com. 29 March 2014.
  10. ↑ "AL candidate wins Tangail 8 by-polls". New Age. Dhaka. 17 April 2014.
  11. ↑ Ahmed, Taib (15 December 2013). "AL closer to majority before voting". New Age. Dhaka. Archived from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  12. ↑ "Bangladesh Parliament Election - Detail Results". Amar Desh. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  13. ↑ "Nomination submission List". Bangladesh Election Commission (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 11 February 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  14. 1 2 3 "Parliament Election Result of 1991, 1996, 2001 Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics". Vote Monitor Networks. Archived from the original on 29 December 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  15. ↑ বড় ভাইয়ের আসনে প্রার্থী হচ্ছেন কাদের সিদ্দিকী [Kader Siddiqui is the candidate for the elder brother's seat]. Bhorer Kagoj (in Bengali). 12 September 2015.
  16. ↑ "AL tri-annual confce held". The Independent. 21 October 2015.
  17. ↑ "Bangladesh: Rebel MP's resignation will not affect party: Hasina". The Hindu. 1 September 1999.
  18. ↑ Akhter, Muhammad Yeahia (2001). Electoral Corruption in Bangladesh. Ashgate. p. 168. ISBN   0-7546-1628-2.
  19. ↑ "Tangail-8 MP Shajahan passes away". The Daily Star. 20 January 2014.

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