Lalmonirhat-2

Lalmonirhat-2
Constituency
for the Jatiya Sangsad
District Lalmonirhat District
Division Rangpur Division
Electorate 268,924 (2008)[1]
Current constituency
Created 1984
Party Awami League
Member(s) Nuruzzaman Ahmed

Lalmonirhat-2 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Nuruzzaman Ahmed of the Awami League.

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Aditmari and Kaliganj upazilas.[1][2]

History

The constituency was created in 1984 from the Rangpur-6 constituency when the former Rangpur District was split into five districts: Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat, Rangpur, Kurigram, and Gaibandha.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1986 Mojibur Rahman Jatiya Party[3][4]
2001 Mojibur Rahman Islami Jatiya Oikya Front
2008 Mojibur Rahman Jatiya Party (Ershad)
2014 Nuruzzaman Ahmed Awami League

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Nuruzzaman Ahmed was elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election.[5]

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2008: Lalmonirhat-2[1][6][7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Jatiya Party (E) Mojibur Rahman 161,677 69.4 N/A
BNP Saleh Uddin Ahmed 61,599 26.4 +2.2
IAB Md. Ebrahim Hossain Khan 9,692 4.2 N/A
Majority 100,078 43.0 +41.2
Turnout 232,968 86.6 +14.3
Jatiya Party (E) gain from IJOF
General Election 2001: Lalmonirhat-2[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
IJOF Mojibur Rahman 60,468 34.5 N/A
Independent Nuruzzaman Ahmed 57,265 32.7 N/A
BNP Saleh Uddin Ahmed 42,298 24.2 +13.7
Awami League Md. Emdadul Haque Chowdhury 14,309 8.2 -28.1
Jatiya Party (M) Hasan Shahid Monju 787 0.4 N/A
Majority 3,203 1.8 -4.1
Turnout 175,127 72.3 +2.2
IJOF gain from Jatiya Party (E)

Elections in the 1990s

General Election June 1996: Lalmonirhat-2[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Jatiya Party (E) Mojibur Rahman 57,804 42.2 -4.1
Awami League Nuruzzaman Ahmed 49,683 36.3 -1.6
BNP Md. Abdul Mannan Sarkar 14,399 10.5 +4.7
Jamaat-e-Islami Md. Samsul Haque 11,713 8.5 +0.7
Independent Md. Fazlur Rahman 2,302 1.7 N/A
Gano Forum Md. Emdadul Haque 709 0.5 N/A
Zaker Party Md. Rezaul Karim Manik 402 0.3 -0.1
Majority 8,121 5.9 -2.5
Turnout 137,012 70.1 +15.0
Jatiya Party (E) hold
General Election 1991: Lalmonirhat-2[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Jatiya Party (E) Mojibur Rahman 51,755 46.3
Awami League Shamsul Islam 42,413 37.9
Jamaat-e-Islami Md. Abdul Wares 8,715 7.8
BNP Abdul Hamid 6,474 5.8
IOJ Md. Sultan Ahmed 1,352 1.2
Zaker Party Md. Kazi Altafur Rahman 447 0.4
Workers Party Md. Kamrul Hasan Siddique 341 0.3
Independent Shree Jitindro Nath 294 0.3
Majority 9,342 8.4
Turnout 111,791 55.1
Jatiya Party (E) hold

References

  1. 1 2 3 "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. ↑ "List of 3rd Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  4. ↑ "List of 4th Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  5. ↑ Ahmed, Taib (15 December 2013). "AL closer to majority before voting". New Age. Dhaka. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "Bangladesh Parliament Election - Detail Results". Amar Desh. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  7. ↑ "Nomination submission List". Bangladesh Election Commission (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 11 February 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  8. 1 2 3 "Parliament Election Result of 1991,1996,2001 Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics". Vote Monitor Networks. Archived from the original on 24 December 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  • "People's Republic of Bangladesh". Psephos.

Coordinates: 25°58′N 89°13′E / 25.97°N 89.22°E / 25.97; 89.22


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