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Mymensingh-5
Mymensingh-5 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Nazrul Islam of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Muktagacha Upazila Muktagacha ( bn, মুক্তাগাছা) is an upazila of Mymensingh District in the Division of Mymensingh Division, Mymensingh, Bangladesh. It is known for confection, sweets which are made there, called "Muktagachar monda, Monda". It is .... History The constituency was created for the first general elections in newly independent Bangladesh, held in 1973. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Salahuddin Ahmed Mukti 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 External links * Parliamentary constituencies in Bangladesh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Reza Fazlul Haque Bablu
Abu Reza Fazlul Haque Bablu Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician. He was elected a member of parliament from Mymensingh-5 in February 1996. Career Bablu is a lawyer and president of Muktagachha Upazila BNP. He was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-5 Mymensingh-5 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Nazrul Islam of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Muktagacha Upazila Muktagacha ( bn, মুক্ত ... as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 15 February 1996 Bangladeshi general election. References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Mymensingh District Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians 20th-century Bangladeshi lawyers 6th Jatiya Sangsad members {{BangladeshNationalistParty-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazrul Islam (Mymensingh-5 Politician)
Md Nazrul Islam is a Bangladeshi politician. He is a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Mymensingh-5 constituency in 2024. Political life Md Nazrul Islam was nominated as a member of parliament as a candidate of Independent from Mymensingh-5 Mymensingh-5 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Nazrul Islam of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Muktagacha Upazila Muktagacha ( bn, মুক্ত ... constituency in 2024 twelfth national parliament election. References Living people People from Mymensingh District Awami League politicians 12th Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) {{Bangladesh-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 parliament lasts five years. The Awami League won the 2018 general elections and formed the government. Incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has hinted she does not intend to lead her party, the Awami League, into another election. Electoral system The 350 members of the Jatiya Sangsad consist of 300 directly elected seats using first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies, and an additional 50 seats reserved for women. The reserved seats are elected proportionally by the elected members. Each parliament sits for a five-year term. Parties and alliances Candidates Results Constituency-wise References {{Bangladeshi elections General Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Banglades ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Abdul Hakim
Mohammad Abdul Hakim is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the former Member of Parliament of Mymensingh-5 Mymensingh-5 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Nazrul Islam of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Muktagacha Upazila Muktagacha ( bn, মুক্ত .... Career Hakim was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-5 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1973. References Awami League politicians Living people 1st Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) Candidates in the 1970 Pakistani general election Members of the Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keramat Ali Talukdar
Keramat Ali Talukdar is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament of Mymensingh-5. Career Talukdar was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-5 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1991. References Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians 5th Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing Year of death unknown {{BangladeshNationalistParty-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 30 December 2018 to elect 300 directly-elected members of the Jatiya Sangsad. The result was a landslide victory for the Awami League led by Sheikh Hasina. According to political scientist Ali Riaz, the elections were not free and fair. The BBC News reported that they were marred by violence and allegations of vote rigging. Opposition leader Kamal Hossain rejected the results, calling it "farcical" and demanding fresh elections to be held under a neutral government. The Bangladesh Election Commission said it would investigate reported vote-rigging allegations from "across the country." The election saw the use of electronic voting machines for the first time. Electoral system The 350 members of the Jatiya Sangsad consist of 300 directly elected seats using first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies, and an additional 50 seats reserved for women. The reserved seats are distributed based on the proportional vote share o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salahuddin Ahmed Mukti
Salahuddin Ahmed Mukti ( bn, সালাহউদ্দিন আহমেদ (মুক্তি)) is a Bangladeshi politician. He was the member of Bangladesh Parliament from Mymensingh-5 Mymensingh-5 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Nazrul Islam of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Muktagacha Upazila Muktagacha ( bn, মুক্ত ... during 2014 to 2019. Early life Mukti was born on 2 January 1973. He has a S.S.C. degree. Career Mukti was elected to Parliament from Mymensingh-5 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 2014. References Living people 10th Jatiya Sangsad members 1973 births Jatiya Party politicians {{JatiyaParty-politician-stub ... [...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] |
1991 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 27 February 1991. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) emerged as the largest party in parliament, winning 140 of the 300 directly-elected seats. The BNP formed a government with the support of the Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami, and on 20 March Khaleda Zia was sworn in for her first term as Prime Minister. The elections were described to be free and fair by many international observers, and it played a major role in solidifying Bangladeshi democracy in aftermath of the anti-government protests in late 1980s. Voter turnout was 55.4%. Background In 1990 a popular mass uprising led by future Prime Ministers Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina deposed the former Army Chief Hussain Muhammad Ershad from the Presidency in December. Ershad had assumed the Presidency in 1983 following a coup d'état in 1982. The previous parliamentary elections had been held in 1988 and saw Ershad's Jatiya Party win 251 of the 300 seats. However, the election ... [...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] |
2001 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 1 October 2001. The 300 single-seat constituencies of the Jatiya Sangsad were contested by 1,935 candidates representing 54 parties and including 484 independents. The elections were the second to be held under the caretaker government concept, introduced in 1996. The result was a win for the Four Party Alliance of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, Jatiya Party (Manju) and Islami Oikya Jote. BNP leader Khaleda Zia became Prime Minister. Background The Seventh Parliament headed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was dissolved on 13 July 2001, having completed its designated 5-year term (the first parliamentary administration to ever do so) and power was transferred to the caretaker government headed by Justice Latifur Rahman. Electoral system In 2001, the 345 members of the Jatiya Sangsad consisted of 300 seats directly elected by first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies, and 45 seat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 5 January 2014, in accordance with the constitutional requirement that elections must take place within the 90-day period before the expiration of the term of the Jatiya Sangshad on 24 January 2014. The elections were not free and fair. They were preceded by a government crackdown on the opposition, with Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Opposition leader Khaleda Zia was put under house arrest. There were widespread arrests of other opposition members, violence and strikes by the opposition, attacks on religious minorities, and extrajudicial killings by the government, with around 21 people killed on election day. Almost all major opposition parties boycotted the elections, resulting in 153 of the total 300 seats being uncontested and the incumbent Awami League-led Grand Alliance of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina winning a landslide majority. Hasina became the first prime minister in the history of Bangladesh to be re-elected to serve a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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