Thakurgaon-1

Thakurgaon-1
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Thakurgaon District
Division	Rangpur Division
Electorate	480,609 (2023)
Current constituency
Created	1984
Parliamentary Party	BNP
Member of Parliament	Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir
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Thakurgaon-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. The current Member of Parliament in this constituency is Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir of Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Thakurgaon Sadar Upazila. ^{[1] [2]}

History

The constituency was created in 1984 when the former Dinajpur District was split into three districts: Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, and Dinajpur. ^[3]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1986	Khademul Islam	Bangladesh Awami League [4]
	1988	Rezwanul Haque Idu Chowdhury	Jatiya Party (Ershad) [5]
	1991	Khademul Islam	Bangladesh Awami League
	Feb 1996	Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir	Bangladesh Nationalist Party [6]
	Jun 1996	Khademul Islam	Bangladesh Awami League [7]
	1997 by-election	Ramesh Chandra Sen
	2001	Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir	Bangladesh Nationalist Party [8]
	2008	Ramesh Chandra Sen	Bangladesh Awami League
	2014
	2018
	2024
	2026	Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir	Bangladesh Nationalist Party

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2026: Thakurgaon-1 ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir	238,836	48.44	+16.47
	Jamaat	Delwar Hossain	141,017	28.63	+19.19
Majority			97,819	19.81	+17.43
Turnout			379,853	74.25	−4.05
Registered electors			511,629
	BNP gain from AL

Elections in the 1990s

Khademul Islam died in December 1996. Ramesh Chandra Sen was elected in a February 1997 by-election.

General Election 1996: Thakurgaon-1 ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Khademul Islam	62,709	34.35
	BNP	Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir	58,369	31.97
	JP(E)	Md. Nurul Haque	42,609	23.34
	Jamaat	Md. Rafiqul Islam	17,242	9.44
	Zaker Party	Md. Jaherul Haque Chowdhury	923	0.51
	CPB	Syed Merajul Hossain	716	0.39
Turnout			184,543	78.3
	AL hold

General Election 1991: Thakurgaon-1 ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Khademul Islam	57,535	39.72
	BNP	Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir	36,406	25.13
	Jamaat	Md. Rafiqul Islam	26,800	18.5
	JP(E)	Md. Rezwanul Haq Chowdhury	21,051	14.53
	Zaker Party	Md. Shahidul Islam	1,150	0.79
	BAKSAL	Md. Manjur Rahman	832	0.57
	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD	Md. Mansur Ali	648	0.45
	Independent	Atiqul Islam Atik	428	0.3
Turnout			120,165	69.5
	AL gain from JP(E)

References

1. "Constituency Maps of Bangladesh".
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. "District Statistics 2011: Dinajpur" (PDF). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2018. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
4. ""List of 3rd Parliament Members"" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 9 April 2020.
5. "List of 4th Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 5 November 2019.
6. "List of 6th Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
7. "List of 7th Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
8. "List of 8th Parliament Members". Bangladesh Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 June 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
9. "ঠাকুরগাঁও-১". প্রথম আলো (in Bengali).
10. "Bangladesh Parliament Election - Electoral Area Results Comparison - Amar Desh Online".

External links

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

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