Thakurgaon-3

Thakurgaon-3
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Thakurgaon District
Division	Rangpur Division
Electorate	300,017
Current constituency
Created	1984
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Thakurgaon-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. Since 6 August 2024, The constituency remains vacant.

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Pirganj Upazila, Ranisankail Municipality, and six union parishads of Ranisankail Upazila: Bachor, Hossain Gaon, Lehemba, Nonduar, Nekmarad, and Raton. ^{[1] [2]}

History

The constituency was created in 1984 from the Dinajpur-5 constituency when the former Dinajpur District was split into three districts: Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, and Dinajpur. ^[3]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1986	Muhammad Shahidullah	Communist Party [4]
	1988	Hafiz Uddin Ahmed	Jatiya Party [5]
	1991	Md. Mokhlesur Rahman	Awami League
	Feb 1996	Abdul Malek	BNP [6]
	Jun 1996	Emdadul Haque	Awami League
	2001	Hafiz Uddin Ahmed	Islami Jatiya Oikya Front
	2008		Jatiya Party
	2014	Yeasin Ali	Workers Party
	2018	Jahidur Rahman	BNP [7]
	2023 by-election	Hafiz Uddin Ahmed	Jatiya Party

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2014: Thakurgaon-3 ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	WPB	Yeasin Ali	62,118	62.2	+60.3
	JP(E)	Hafiz Uddin Ahmed	37,673	37.8	−36.2
Majority			24,445	24.5	−28.0
Turnout			99,791	37.7	−53.7
	WPB gain from JP(E)

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2008: Thakurgaon-3 ^{[1] [9] [10]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP(E)	Hafiz Uddin Ahmed	160,107	74.0	N/A
	BNP	Jahidur Rahman	46,545	21.5	+16.8
	CPB	Monsurul Alam	4,438	2.1	+1.2
	WPB	Shahidullah Sahid	4,060	1.9	N/A
	IAB	Abul Hasan Kasemi	745	0.3	N/A
	BDB	Mirza Md. Habibullah Chowdhury	380	0.2	N/A
Majority			113,562	52.5	+46.6
Turnout			216,275	91.4	+4.0
	JP(E) gain from IJOF

General Election 2001: Thakurgaon-3 ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	IJOF	Hafiz Uddin Ahmed	89,468	50.1	N/A
	AL	Emdadul Haque	78,998	44.3	+0.5
	BNP	Jahidur Rahman	8,359	4.7	−2.4
	CPB	Monsurul Alam	1,656	0.9	−0.2
Majority			10,470	5.9	+3.1
Turnout			178,481	87.4	+10.0
	IJOF gain from AL

Elections in the 1990s

General Election June 1996: Thakurgaon-3 ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Emdadul Haque	55,953	43.8	+1.6
	JP(E)	Md. Ikramul Hauqe	52,342	41.0	+8.6
	BNP	Abdul Malek	9,060	7.1	N/A
	JI	Mizanur Rahman	8,081	6.3	−8.7
	CPB	Md. Monsurul Rahman	1,439	1.1	N/A
	Zaker Party	Nazimuddin Ahmed	415	0.3	−8.7
	Independent	Kazi Jafar Ahmed	333	0.3	N/A
Majority			3,611	2.8	−7.0
Turnout			127,623	77.4	+8.4
	AL hold

General Election 1991: Thakurgaon-3 ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Md. Mokhlesur Rahman	50,221	42.2
	JP(E)	Hafiz Uddin Ahmed	38,538	32.4
	JI	Mizanur Rahman	17,841	15.0
	NAP (Muzaffar)	A. Malek	6,461	5.4
	BNP	Zahedur Ruman	5,107	4.3
	Zaker Party	Md. Abdur Rahman	424	0.4
	UCL	Shahidullah Shahid	335	0.3
Majority			11,683	9.8
Turnout			118,927	69.0
	AL gain from JP(E)

References

1. "Constituency Maps of Bangladesh" (PDF). Bangladesh Election Commission . 2010. 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. "District Statistics 2011: Dinajpur" (PDF). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics . Retrieved 15 February 2018.
4. "List of 3rd Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
5. "List of 4th Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
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. "Thakurgaon-3". The Daily Star. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
8. "Thakurgaon-3". Bangladesh Election Result 2014. Dhaka Tribune . Retrieved 8 February 2018.
9. "Bangladesh Parliament Election - Detail Results". Amar Desh . Retrieved 8 February 2018.
10. "Nomination submission List". Bangladesh Election Commission (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 11 February 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
11. "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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