Comilla-9 | |
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Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad | |
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District | Comilla District |
Division | Chittagong Division |
Electorate | 361,960 (2018)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1973 |
Party | Awami League |
Member(s) | Tazul Islam |
Comilla-9 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008 by Tazul Islam of the Awami League.
The constituency encompasses Laksam and Manoharganj upazilas.[2][3]
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]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AL | Tazul Islam | 163,195 | 93.0 | +43.8 | |
JP(E) | Md. Golam Mostofa Kamal | 12,192 | 7.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 151,003 | 86.1 | +85.9 | ||
Turnout | 175,387 | 54.5 | -36 | ||
AL hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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AL | Tazul Islam | 117,748 | 49.2 | +4.0 | ||
BNP | Anwarul Azim | 117,290 | 49.0 | -4.7 | ||
IAB | Salim Mahmud | 2,230 | 0.9 | N/A | ||
BKA | Md. Ismail | 761 | 0.3 | N/A | ||
Bangladesh Kalyan Party | Mostak Hosen | 731 | 0.3 | N/A | ||
Independent | Md. Ayub Ali | 630 | 0.3 | N/A | ||
Majority | 458 | 0.2 | -8.3 | |||
Turnout | 239,390 | 90.5 | +15.4 | |||
AL gain from BNP |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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BNP | Monirul Haq Chowdhury | 78,622 | 53.7 | +51.0 | ||
AL | A. H. M. Mustafa Kamal | 66,175 | 45.2 | -6.1 | ||
IJOF | Saif Uddin Ahmmad | 496 | 0.3 | N/A | ||
JSD | Munsi Faruk Ahmed | 268 | 0.2 | N/A | ||
Gano Forum | M. A. Matin | 225 | 0.2 | -0.2 | ||
Independent | Abul Kasem | 214 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
NAP (Bhashani) | Md. Rustam Ali Maishan | 209 | 0.1 | -0.1 | ||
Independent | Md. Rashid | 104 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
Quran Sunnah Bastabayan Parishad | Md. Mostafa Kamal | 77 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||
Independent | Golam Mohiuddin | 74 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
Majority | 12,447 | 8.5 | -0.1 | |||
Turnout | 146,464 | 75.1 | -0.1 | |||
BNP gain from AL |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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AL | A. H. M. Mustafa Kamal | 57,195 | 51.3 | +13.3 | ||
JP(E) | Monirul Haq Chowdhury | 47,570 | 42.7 | -4.3 | ||
BNP | Syed Matiul Islam | 3,010 | 2.7 | -8.3 | ||
Jamaat-e-Islami | Mostofa Kamal Bhuiyan | 2,602 | 2.3 | N/A | ||
Gano Forum | Md. Abdul Matin | 430 | 0.4 | N/A | ||
NAP (Bhashani) | Md. Rustam Ali Maishan | 238 | 0.2 | N/A | ||
Zaker Party | Fate Ali Member | 212 | 0.2 | -0.5 | ||
IOJ | Md. Siddiqur Rahman | 97 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
Quran Sunnah Bastabayan Parishad | Md. Mostafa Kamal | 82 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
Islamic Sashantantrik Andolan | Yakub | 54 | 0.0 | N/A | ||
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD | Munshi Faruk Ahmed | 45 | 0.0 | N/A | ||
Majority | 9,625 | 8.6 | -0.3 | |||
Turnout | 111,535 | 75.2 | +20.2 | |||
AL gain from JP(E) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
JP(E) | Monirul Haq Chowdhury | 42,746 | 47.0 | ||
AL | Abul Kalam Mazumdar | 34,612 | 38.0 | ||
BNP | Rabeya Khatun Chowdhury | 10,017 | 11.0 | ||
Bangladesh Janata Party | Abdur Razzak | 2,219 | 2.4 | ||
Zaker Party | Fazal Khan | 675 | 0.7 | ||
NAP (Muzaffar) | Joinal Abedin | 386 | 0.4 | ||
Bangladesh Muslim League (Kader) | Abdur Rahman Mazumdar | 351 | 0.4 | ||
Majority | 8,134 | 8.9 | |||
Turnout | 91,006 | 55.0 | |||
JP(E) hold |