Rajshahi-6 | |
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Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad | |
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District | Rajshahi District |
Division | Rajshahi Division |
Electorate | 304,298 (2018) [1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2008 |
Party | Awami League |
Member(s) | Shahriar Alam |
Created from | Rajshahi-5 |
Rajshahi-6 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008 by Shahriar Alam of the Awami League.
The constituency encompasses Bagha and Charghat Upazilas. [2] [3]
The constituency was created from the former Rajshahi-5 constituency when, 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 reapportionment transferred one seat from Sirajganj District to Rajshahi District. [5] The new seat took the name Rajshahi-3, [6] bumping up by one the suffix of the former constituency of that name and higher numbered constituencies in the district.
Election | Member | Party | |
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1973 | Atowar Rahman Talukder | Awami League | |
1979 | Mohammad Maqbool Hossain | Bangladesh Nationalist Party | |
Major Boundary Changes | |||
2008 | Shahriar Alam | Awami League | |
2014 | |||
2018 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AL | Shahriar Alam | 70,110 | 76.6 | +20.7 | |
Independent | Md. Rahenul Haque Raihan | 21,463 | 23.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 48,647 | 53.1 | +40.9 | ||
Turnout | 91,573 | 33.4 | −58.2 | ||
AL hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AL | Shariar Alam | 126,807 | 55.9 | ||
BNP | Azizur Rahman | 99,148 | 43.7 | ||
BDB | Maskaol Ahoshan | 501 | 0.2 | ||
JSD | Nurul Islam | 436 | 0.2 | ||
Majority | 27,659 | 12.2 | |||
Turnout | 226,892 | 91.6 | |||
AL win (new seat) |
24°17′N 88°45′E / 24.29°N 88.75°E
Rajshahi-6 | |
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Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad | |
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District | Rajshahi District |
Division | Rajshahi Division |
Electorate | 304,298 (2018) [1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2008 |
Party | Awami League |
Member(s) | Shahriar Alam |
Created from | Rajshahi-5 |
Rajshahi-6 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008 by Shahriar Alam of the Awami League.
The constituency encompasses Bagha and Charghat Upazilas. [2] [3]
The constituency was created from the former Rajshahi-5 constituency when, 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 reapportionment transferred one seat from Sirajganj District to Rajshahi District. [5] The new seat took the name Rajshahi-3, [6] bumping up by one the suffix of the former constituency of that name and higher numbered constituencies in the district.
Election | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1973 | Atowar Rahman Talukder | Awami League | |
1979 | Mohammad Maqbool Hossain | Bangladesh Nationalist Party | |
Major Boundary Changes | |||
2008 | Shahriar Alam | Awami League | |
2014 | |||
2018 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AL | Shahriar Alam | 70,110 | 76.6 | +20.7 | |
Independent | Md. Rahenul Haque Raihan | 21,463 | 23.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 48,647 | 53.1 | +40.9 | ||
Turnout | 91,573 | 33.4 | −58.2 | ||
AL hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AL | Shariar Alam | 126,807 | 55.9 | ||
BNP | Azizur Rahman | 99,148 | 43.7 | ||
BDB | Maskaol Ahoshan | 501 | 0.2 | ||
JSD | Nurul Islam | 436 | 0.2 | ||
Majority | 27,659 | 12.2 | |||
Turnout | 226,892 | 91.6 | |||
AL win (new seat) |
24°17′N 88°45′E / 24.29°N 88.75°E