Cox's Bazar-2
Appearance
Cox's Bazar-2 | |
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Constituency for the Bangladesh Awami League | |
Member of Parliament | Asheq Ullah Rafiq |
Prev. Constituency | Cox's Bazar-1 (Constituency 294) |
Next Constituency | Cox's Bazar-3 (Constituency 296) |
Cox's Bazar-2 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Asheq Ullah Rafiq of the Awami League.
Boundaries
The constituency encompasses
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.[4]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1986 | Jahirul Islam | Jatiya Party[5][6] | |
1991 | Md. Ishak | BAKSAL
| |
February 1996 | ATM Nurul Bashar Chowdhury
|
Bangladesh Nationalist Party | |
June 1996 | Alamgir Mohammad Mahfuzullah Farid | Bangladesh Nationalist Party | |
2008 | A. H. M. Hamidur Rahman Azad | Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami | |
2014 | Asheq Ullah Rafiq | Awami League |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Asheq Ullah Rafiq was elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election.[7]
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jamaat-e-Islami | A. H. M. Hamidur Rahman Azad | 104,271 | 53.9 | N/A | ||
AL
|
Ansarul Karim | 86,944 | 45.0 | +12.9 | ||
IOJ | Mohammad Solaiman | 1,335 | 0.7 | N/A | ||
Gano Front | Golam Mowla | 467 | 0.2 | N/A | ||
Zaker Party | Mohammad Elias | 340 | 0.2 | N/A | ||
Majority | 17,327 | 9.0 | -26.5 | |||
Turnout | 193,357 | 85.6 | +13.9 | |||
Jamaat-e-Islami gain from BNP |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BNP | Alamgir Mohammad Mahfuzullah Farid | 103,503 | 67.6 | +26.8 | |
AL
|
Faridul Islam Chowdhury | 49,190 | 32.1 | +2.3 | |
Independent
|
A. N. M. Shahid Uddin | 426 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 54,313 | 35.5 | +24.5 | ||
Turnout | 153,119 | 71.7 | +1.8 | ||
BNP hold |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BNP | Alamgir Mohammad Mahfuzullah Farid | 44,445 | 40.8 | +15.7 | ||
AL
|
Sirajul Mostafa | 32,443 | 29.8 | N/A | ||
Jamaat-e-Islami | Master Shafiullah Kutubi | 21,859 | 20.0 | -8.5 | ||
JP(E) | Jahirul Islam | 5,793 | 5.3 | -0.1 | ||
IOJ | Moulana Amjad Ali | 3,683 | 3.4 | N/A | ||
Samridhya Bangladesh Andolan | Shamim Ara Dulan | 604 | 0.6 | N/A | ||
Gano Forum | A. K. M. Faijul Karim | 198 | 0.2 | N/A | ||
Majority | 12,002 | 11.0 | +8.1 | |||
Turnout | 109,025 | 69.9 | +21.7 | |||
BNP gain from BAKSAL |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BAKSAL | Md. Ishak B A
|
25,727 | 31.4 | |||
Jamaat-e-Islami | Shafi Ullah | 23,345 | 28.5 | |||
BNP | Md. Rashid | 20,563 | 25.1 | |||
BIF | Md. Shafiqul Alam | 5,747 | 7.0 | |||
JP(E) | Shaker Ullah | 4,461 | 5.4 | |||
NDP | Mostak Ahmed Chowdhury | 1,862 | 2.3 | |||
Independent
|
Sirajul Mostafa | 101 | 0.1 | |||
Independent
|
Md. Nur Boks | 100 | 0.1 | |||
Majority | 2,382 | 2.9 | ||||
Turnout | 81,906 | 48.2 | ||||
BAKSAL gain from JP(E) |
References
- ^ "Cox's Bazar-2". The Daily Star. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
- ^ a b "Constituency Maps of Bangladesh" (PDF). Bangladesh Election Commission. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
- ^ "Delimitation of Constituencies" (PDF). Bangladesh Election Commission (in Bengali). 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
- ^ "District Statistics 2011: Chittagong" (PDF). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
- ^ "List of 3rd Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2018. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
- ^ "List of 4th Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
- ^ Ahmed, Taib (15 December 2013). "AL closer to majority before voting". New Age. Dhaka. Archived from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
- ^ "Bangladesh Parliament Election - Detail Results". Amar Desh. Archived from the original on 16 February 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
- ^ "Nomination submission List". Bangladesh Election Commission (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 11 February 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
- ^ a b c "Parliament Election Result of 1991, 1996, 2001 Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics". Vote Monitor Networks. Archived from the original on 29 December 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
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