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Chittagong-16
Chattogram-16 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Mujibur Rahman of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Banshkhali Upazila. History The constituency was created when, ahead of the 2008 general election, the Election Commission redrew constituency boundaries to reflect population changes revealed by the 2001 Bangladesh census. The 2008 redistricting added a new seat to Chattogram District, increasing the number of constituencies in the district to 16. The seat for Sandwip Upazila Sandwip ( bn, সন্দ্বীপ) is an upazila of Chattogram District in Chattogram Division, Bangladesh. It encompasses the islands of Sandwip and Urir Char. History Sandwip Thana's status was upgraded to an upazila (sub-district l ... was renumbered from Chittagong-3 to Chittagong-16, and seats 2 through 7 were shuffled around so that the three metropolitan seats (Chittagong-8, 9, and 10) coul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mostafa Kamal Pasha
Mustafa Kamal Pasha is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Chittagong-3 and Chittagong-16 Chattogram-16 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Mujibur Rahman of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Banshkhali Upazila. History The constituency was .... Career Pasha was elected to parliament from Chittagong-16 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2008. He was elected to parliament from Chittagong-3 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001. Pasha's son was shot and his house was set on fire during clashes between Bangladesh Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists on 24 November 2013. References Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians Living people 6th Jatiya Sangsad members 8th Jatiya Sangsad members 9th Jatiya Sangsad members 1950 births People from Sandwip Upazila {{BangladeshNationalistPart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mustafizur Rahman Chowdhury
Mustafizur Rahaman Chowdhury ( bn, মোস্তাফিজুর রহমান চৌধুরী) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and former Member of Parliament from Chittagong-16. Early life Chowdhury was born on 20 December 1957. He has a B.A. and a M.A. degree. Career Chowdhury was elected to parliament in 2014 from Chittagong-16 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate. Controversy On 1 June 2016, he was accused of assaulting Zahidul Islam, an upazila election officer, during the Union Parishad Union council ( bn, ইউনিয়ন পরিষদ, translit=iūniyan pariṣad, translit-std=IAST), also known as union parishad, rural council, rural union and simply union, is the smallest rural administrative and local government unit ... polls. The election officer complained to the Dèputy Commissioner (DC) who notified Bangladesh Election Commission. Zahidul Islam filed a case with the Banshkhali Police Station against Chowdhury and two of his asso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chittagong-15
Chittagong-15 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Abu Reza Muhammad Nezamuddin of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Lohagara Upazila and all but six union parishads of Satkania Upazila: Bazlia, Dharmapur, Kalais, Keochia, Khagaria, and Puranagar. History The constituency was created for the first general elections in newly independent Bangladesh, held in 1973. Ahead of the 2014 general election, the Election Commission renumbered the seat for Sandwip Upazila from Chittagong-16 to Chittagong-3, bumping up by one the suffix of the former constituency of that name and the higher numbered constituencies in the district. Thus Chittagong-15 covers the area previously covered by Chittagong-14. Previously Chittagong-15 encompassed Banshkhali Upazila Banshkhali ( bn, বাঁশখালী) is an upazila (administrative region) of Chattogram District in Chattogram Division, Bangladesh. G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamsuddin Ahmad Chowdhury
Shamsuddin Ahmad Chowdhury () is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the former Member of Parliament of Chittagong-16. Career Chowdhury was elected to parliament from Chittagong-16 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1973. References Awami League politicians Living people 1st Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) {{Chittagong-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mujibur Rahman (Chattogram Politician)
Mujibur Rahman is a Bangladeshi politician. He is presently member of Jatiya Sangsad from Chittagong-16 as an independent candidate on the 2024 Bangladeshi general election General elections are scheduled to be held in Bangladesh in January 2024. Background The current Sangsad ( 11th) is scheduled to expire on 29 January 2024, as the first session of this parliament sat on 30 January 2019 and the tenure of a parli .... References Bangladeshi politicians 12th Jatiya Sangsad members 21st-century Bangladeshi politicians Living people People from Chittagong District Members of the Jatiya Sangsad Year of birth missing (living people) {{Bangladesh-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahmudul Karim Chowdhury
Mahmudul Karim Chowdhury was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament of Chittagong-16. Career Chowdhury was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-11 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1979. Death Chowdhury died on 27 December 2012. References Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians 2012 deaths 2nd Jatiya Sangsad members Chittagong College alumni {{Chittagong-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cox's Bazar-1
Cox's Bazar-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2019 by Jafar Alam of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Chakaria and Pekua upazilas. History The constituency was created in 1984 from a Chittagong constituency when the former Chittagong District was split into two districts: Chittagong and Cox's Bazar Cox's Bazar (; bn, কক্সবাজার, Kôksbajar; ) is a city, fishing port, tourism centre, and district headquarters in Southeastern Bangladesh. It is located south of the city of Chittagong. Cox's Bazar is also known by the na .... Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Mohammed Ellias was elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election. Elections in the 2000s Elections in the 1990s References Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jatiya Sangsad
The Jatiya Sangsad ( bn, জাতীয় সংসদ, lit=National Parliament, translit=Jatiyô Sôngsôd), often referred to simply as the ''Sangsad'' or JS and also known as the House of the Nation, is the supreme legislative body of Bangladesh. The current parliament of Bangladesh contains 350 seats, including 50 seats reserved exclusively for women. Elected occupants are called Member of Parliament, or MP. The 11th National Parliamentary Election was held on 30 December 2018. Elections to the body are held every five years, unless a parliament is dissolved earlier by the President of Bangladesh. The leader of the party (or alliance of parties) holding the majority of seats becomes the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, and so the head of the government. The President of Bangladesh, the ceremonial head of state, is chosen by Parliament. Since the December 2008 national election, the current majority party is the Awami League led by Sheikh Hasina. Etymology The Constit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandwip Upazila
Sandwip ( bn, সন্দ্বীপ) is an upazila of Chattogram District in Chattogram Division, Bangladesh. It encompasses the islands of Sandwip and Urir Char. History Sandwip Thana's status was upgraded to an upazila (sub-district level) in 1984. The construction works of a Bangladesh Navy fleet headquarters at the Sandwip Channel with ship berthing facilities is also going on as part of the Forces Goal 2030. In 2010, the Government of Bangladesh announced a plan to build a dam in Urir Char to reclaim land as it had suffered greatly from Tropical Storm One and the 1991 Bangladesh cyclone among other natural disasters. Geography Sandwip is located at . It has a total area of 762.42 km2. Demographics According to the 1991 Bangladesh census, Sandwip had a population of 272,179. Males constituted 49.68% of the population, and females 50.32%. The population aged 18 or over was 122,499. Sandwip had an average literacy rate of 35% (7+ years), against the national ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psephos
Psephos: Adam Carr's Electoral Archive is an online archive of election statistics, and claims to be the world's largest online resource of such information. Psephos is maintained by Dr Adam Carr, of Melbourne, Australia, a historian and former aide to Australian MP Michael Danby and Senator David Feeney. It includes detailed statistics for presidential and legislative elections from 182 countries, with at least some statistics for every country that has what Carr considers to be genuine national elections. "Psephos" is a Greek word meaning "pebble", a reference to the Ancient Greek method of voting by dropping pebbles into urns, and is the root of the word psephology, the study of elections. Carr began accumulating Australian election statistics in the mid-1980s, with the intention of publishing a complete print edition of Australian national elections statistics dating back to 1901. With the advent of the World Wide Web, Carr abandoned this idea and began to place election stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh Nationalist Party
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( bn, বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী দল, Bangladesh Jātīyotābādī Dol; BNP) is a centre-right to right-wing nationalist, political party in Bangladesh and one of the major political parties of Bangladesh. It was founded on 1 September 1978 by former Bangladeshi President Ziaur Rahman after the Presidential election of 1978, with a view of uniting the people with a nationalist ideology. Since then, the BNP won the second, fifth, sixth and eighth national elections and two Presidential elections in 1978 and 1981. The party also holds the record of being the largest opposition in the history of parliamentary elections of the country, with 116 seats in the seventh national election of June 1996. It has currently 7 MPs in parliament after 2018 general election. Although the party was initially founded on a nationalistic principle, many of its leaders want an Islamic government and its main supporters are Islam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 Bangladeshi General Election ...
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 18 February 1979. The result was a victory for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which won 207 of the 300 seats. Voter turnout was 51.3%. The Awami League became the main opposition party after winning 39 seats. With almost all parties participating, the elections were deemed credible by observers. Results References {{Bangladeshi elections General General elections in Bangladesh Bangladesh Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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