Comilla-1
Constituency of Bangladesh's Jatiya Sangsad
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Cumilla-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. Since 6 August 2024, the constituency remains vacant.
| Comilla-1 | |
|---|---|
| Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad | |
| |
| District | Cumilla District |
| Division | Chittagong Division |
| Electorate | 347,071 (2018)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1973 |
| Parliamentary Party | None |
| Member of Parliament | Vacant |
Boundaries
The constituency encompasses Daudkandi and Meghna Upazila.[2][3]
History
The constituency was created for the first general elections in newly independent Bangladesh, held in 1973.
Ahead of the 2008 general election, the Election Commission redrew constituency boundaries to reflect population changes revealed by the 2001 Bangladesh census.[4] The 2008 redistricting altered the boundaries of the constituency.[5]
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Mohammad Sayedul Haque | Awami League[6] | |
| 1979 | Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan | Bangladesh Nationalist Party[7] | |
| Major Boundary Changes | |||
| 1986 | Mohammad Mobarak Ali | Jatiya Party[8][9] | |
| 1991 | M. K. Anwar | BNP | |
| June 1996 | |||
| 2008 | Mohammad Shubid Ali Bhuiyan | Awami League | |
| 2014 | |||
| 2018 | |||
| 2024 | Abdus Sabur | ||
Elections
Elections in the 2020s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJSD | Barua Monojit Dhiman | ||||
| BNP | Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain | ||||
| IAB | Bashir Ahmed | ||||
| Independent | Abu Zayed Al Mahmud | ||||
| Jamaat | Md Maniruzzamam | ||||
| AB Party | Md Safiul Bashar | ||||
| Independent | Omar Faruk | ||||
| Bangladesh Republican Party | Md Abul Kalam | ||||
| JP(E) | Syed Md Iftekhar Ahsan | ||||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
Elections in the 2010s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL | Mohammad Shubid Ali Bhuiyan[note 1] | 90,077 | 81.0 | +27.8 | |
| Independent | Naim Hasan | 18,572 | 16.7 | N/A | |
| JP(E) | Abu Jayed Al Mahmud[note 1] | 2,026 | 1.8 | N/A | |
| Independent | Md. Zaman Sarkar[note 1] | 302 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Independent | Basudeb Saha[note 1] | 268 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Majority | 71,505 | 64.3 | +55.7 | ||
| Turnout | 111,245 | 36.3 | −46.8 | ||
| AL hold | |||||
Elections in the 2000s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL | Mohammad Shubid Ali Bhuiyan | 114,818 | 53.2 | +21.6 | ||
| BNP | Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain | 96,378 | 44.7 | −22.7 | ||
| IAB | Md. Al Amin | 1,977 | 0.9 | N/A | ||
| Independent | Md. Abdus Sattar | 1,920 | 0.9 | N/A | ||
| Zaker Party | Md. Hazrat Ali Khan | 309 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
| BKA | Sultan Mohiuddin | 244 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
| Majority | 18,440 | 8.6 | −27.2 | |||
| Turnout | 215,646 | 83.1 | +20.4 | |||
| AL gain from BNP | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BNP | M. K. Anwar | 73,936 | 67.4 | −1.0 | |
| AL | Jahangir Alam Sarkar | 34,645 | 31.6 | +2.4 | |
| IJOF | Shamsuddin Ahamed | 592 | 0.5 | N/A | |
| Independent | Mojammel Haq | 384 | 0.4 | N/A | |
| Jatiya Party (M) | Mohammad Golam Mustafa | 100 | 0.1 | N/A | |
| Majority | 39,291 | 35.8 | −3.4 | ||
| Turnout | 109,657 | 62.7 | +0.6 | ||
| BNP hold | |||||
Elections in the 1990s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BNP | M. K. Anwar | 69,356 | 68.4 | −3.6 | |
| AL | Jahangir Alam Sarkar | 29,594 | 29.2 | +7.2 | |
| JP(E) | Mahabubul Haque Dulon | 843 | 0.8 | N/A | |
| IOJ | A. Samad | 697 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Jamaat | Md. A. Aziz Molla | 544 | 0.5 | N/A | |
| Zaker Party | A. T. M. Obaidul Haque | 317 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 39,762 | 39.2 | −10.8 | ||
| Turnout | 101,351 | 62.1 | +14.3 | ||
| BNP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BNP | M. K. Anwar | 69,941 | 72.0 | |||
| AL | Mortuza Hossain Mollah | 21,380 | 22.0 | |||
| Independent | Chowdhury ABM Kawsar Ahmed | 2,338 | 2.4 | |||
| Independent | Md. Monir Ahmed | 1,535 | 1.6 | |||
| Bangladesh Janata Party | AKM Zamshed Alam | 1,118 | 1.2 | |||
| NAP (Muzaffar) | Shafiq Ahang Khan | 376 | 0.4 | |||
| Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD | AKM Fazlul Haq | 323 | 0.3 | |||
| Jatiya Janata Party and Gonotantrik Oikkya Jot | Sarkar Nasiruddin Ahmed | 147 | 0.2 | |||
| Majority | 48,561 | 50.0 | ||||
| Turnout | 97,158 | 47.8 | ||||
| BNP gain from JP(E) | ||||||
Notes
- Sources vary. One reports a lower 2014 turnout of 109,117 with a somewhat higher vote count for Bhuiyan, and lower vote counts for the candidates finishing in third through fifth place, but the discrepancies in the figures are not large enough to change the overall outcome.
