Thakurgaon-3

Thakurgaon-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2019 by Jahidur Rahman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

Thakurgaon-3
Constituency
for the Jatiya Sangsad
DistrictThakurgaon District
DivisionRangpur Division
Electorate300,017 (2018)[1]
Current constituency
Created1984
PartyBangladesh Nationalist Party
Member(s)Jahidur Rahman

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Pirganj Upazila, Ranisankail Municipality, and six union parishads of Ranisankail Upazila: Bachor, Hossain Gaon, Lehemba, Nonduar, Nekmarad, and Raton.[2][3]

History

The constituency was created in 1984 from the Dinajpur-5 constituency when the former Dinajpur District was split into three districts: Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, and Dinajpur.[4]

Members of Parliament
ElectionMemberParty
1986 Muhammad Shahidullah Communist Party of Bangladesh[5]
1988 Hafiz Uddin Ahmed Jatiya Party (Ershad)[6]
1991 Md. Mokhlesur Rahman Awami League
February 1996 Abdul Malek Bangladesh Nationalist Party[7]
June 1996 Emdadul Haque Awami League
2001 Hafiz Uddin Ahmed Islami Jatiya Oikya Front
2008 Hafiz Uddin Ahmed Jatiya Party (Ershad)
2014 Yeasin Ali Workers Party of Bangladesh
2018 Jahidur Rahman Bangladesh Nationalist Party[1]

Elections

Elections in the 2010s
General Election 2014: Thakurgaon-3[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Workers Party Yeasin Ali 62,118 62.2 +60.3
JP(E) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed 37,673 37.8 -36.2
Majority 24,445 24.5 -28.0
Turnout 99,791 37.7 -53.7
Workers Party gain from JP(E)

Elections in the 2000s
General Election 2008: Thakurgaon-3[2][9][10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JP(E) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed 160,107 74.0 N/A
BNP Jahidur Rahman 46,545 21.5 +16.8
CPB Monsurul Alam 4,438 2.1 +1.2
Workers Party Shahidullah Sahid 4,060 1.9 N/A
IAB Abul Hasan Kasemi 745 0.3 N/A
BDB Mirza Md. Habibullah Chowdhury 380 0.2 N/A
Majority 113,562 52.5 +46.6
Turnout 216,275 91.4 +4.0
JP(E) gain from IJOF
General Election 2001: Thakurgaon-3[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
IJOF Hafiz Uddin Ahmed 89,468 50.1 N/A
Awami League Emdadul Haque 78,998 44.3 +0.5
BNP Jahidur Rahman 8,359 4.7 -2.4
CPB Monsurul Alam 1,656 0.9 -0.2
Majority 10,470 5.9 +3.1
Turnout 178,481 87.4 +10.0
IJOF gain from Awami League

Elections in the 1990s
General Election June 1996: Thakurgaon-3[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Awami League Emdadul Haque 55,953 43.8 +1.6
JP(E) Md. Ikramul Hauqe 52,342 41.0 +8.6
BNP Abdul Malek 9,060 7.1 N/A
Jamaat-e-Islami Mizanur Rahman 8,081 6.3 -8.7
CPB Md. Monsurul Rahman 1,439 1.1 N/A
Zaker Party Nazimuddin Ahmed 415 0.3 -8.7
Independent Kazi Jafar Ahmed 333 0.3 N/A
Majority 3,611 2.8 -7.0
Turnout 127,623 77.4 +8.4
Awami League hold
General Election 1991: Thakurgaon-3[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Awami League Md. Mokhlesur Rahman 50,221 42.2
JP(E) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed 38,538 32.4
Jamaat-e-Islami Mizanur Rahman 17,841 15.0
NAP (Muzaffar) A. Malek 6,461 5.4
BNP Zahedur Ruman 5,107 4.3
Zaker Party Md. Abdur Rahman 424 0.4
UCL Shahidullah Shahid 335 0.3
Majority 11,683 9.8
Turnout 118,927 69.0
Awami League gain from JP(E)

References
  1. "Thakurgaon-3". The Daily Star. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  2. "Constituency Maps of Bangladesh" (PDF). Bangladesh Election Commission. 2010. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  3. "Delimitation of Constituencies" (PDF). Bangladesh Election Commission (in Bengali). 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  4. "District Statistics 2011: Dinajpur" (PDF). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  5. "List of 3rd Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  6. "List of 4th Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  7. "List of 6th Parliament Members" (PDF). Jatiya Sangsad. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 September 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  8. "Thakurgaon-3". Bangladesh Election Result 2014. Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  9. "Bangladesh Parliament Election - Detail Results". Amar Desh. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  10. "Nomination submission List". Bangladesh Election Commission (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 11 February 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  11. "Parliament Election Result of 1991,1996,2001 Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics". Vote Monitor Networks. Archived from the original on 22 December 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2018.


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