Pabna-2 | |
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Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad | |
District | Pabna District |
Division | Rajshahi Division |
Electorate | 300,789 (2018)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1973 |
Party | Awami League |
Member(s) | Ahmed Firoz Kabir |
Pabna-2 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2019 by Ahmed Firoz Kabir of the Awami League.
The constituency encompasses Sujanagar Upazila and the five southernmost union parishads of Bera Upazila: Dhalar Char, Jatsakhni, Masundia, Puran Bharenga, and Ruppur.[2][3]
The constituency was created for the first general elections in newly independent Bangladesh, held in 1973.
Azizul Huq Arzu was elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election.[8]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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AL | A. K. Khandker | 116,730 | 55.1 | +8.6 | ||
BNP | AKM Salim Reza Habib | 95,000 | 44.9 | -8.0 | ||
Majority | 21,730 | 10.3 | +4.0 | |||
Turnout | 211,730 | 90.1 | +11.7 | |||
AL gain from BNP |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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BNP | AKM Salim Reza Habib | 97,704 | 52.9 | +6.0 | ||
AL | Mirza Abdul Jalil | 86,013 | 46.5 | -1.5 | ||
IJOF | Md. Nurul Islam | 1,010 | 0.5 | N/A | ||
Independent | Md. Masud Ahmed | 125 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
Majority | 11,691 | 6.3 | +5.2 | |||
Turnout | 184,852 | 78.4 | -4.3 | |||
BNP gain from AL |
Ahmed Tafiz Uddin died in June 1998. A. K. Khandker of the Awami League was elected in a December by-election.[12]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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AL | Ahmed Tafiz Uddin | 67,250 | 48.0 | +8.5 | ||
BNP | AKM Salim Reza Habib | 65,745 | 46.9 | -8.4 | ||
Jamaat-e-Islami | Md. Hatem Ali | 3,979 | 2.8 | N/A | ||
JP(E) | Mokbul Hossain | 2,451 | 1.7 | +1.0 | ||
Zaker Party | Md. A. Wahab | 424 | 0.3 | -2.1 | ||
Independent | Khandakar Golam Mortuza | 177 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
Independent | Md. Ferdous Alam Khan | 159 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
Majority | 1,505 | 1.1 | -14.8 | |||
Turnout | 140,185 | 82.7 | +24.1 | |||
AL gain from BNP |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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BNP | Osman Ghani Khan | 67,431 | 55.3 | |||
AL | Ahmed Tafiz Uddin | 48,086 | 39.5 | |||
Zaker Party | Md. A. Wahab | 2,938 | 2.4 | |||
NAP (Muzaffar) | Ronesh Moitra | 1,050 | 0.9 | |||
JP(E) | Mokbul Hossain | 908 | 0.7 | |||
Independent | Md. Hasan Monjur | 882 | 0.7 | |||
NAP (Bhashani) | Md. Saudur Rahman | 445 | 0.4 | |||
NDP | Khandakar Golam Mortuza | 100 | 0.1 | |||
Majority | 19,345 | 15.9 | ||||
Turnout | 121,840 | 58.6 | ||||
BNP gain from JP(E) |