- Source: Rangpur-1
Rangpur-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. Since 6 August 2024 The constituency is vacant.
Boundaries
The constituency encompasses Gangachhara Upazila and wards 1 through 8 of Rangpur City Corporation.
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 reduced the boundaries of the constituency. Previously it had also included three union parishads of Rangpur Sadar Upazila: Haridebpur, Pashuram, and Uttam.
Ahead of the 2018 general election, the Election Commission expanded the boundaries of the constituency to include wards 1 through 8 of Rangpur City Corporation.
Members of Parliament
Elections
= Elections in the 2010s
=Moshiur Rahman Ranga 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
=Hussain Muhammad Ershad stood from jail for five seats in the 1991 general election: Rangpur-1, Rangpur-2, Rangpur-3, Rangpur-5, and Rangpur-6. After winning all five, he chose to represent Rangpur-3 and quit the other four, triggering by-elections in them. Karimuddin Bharsa, of the Jatiya Party (Ershad), was elected in a September 1991 by-election.
References
External links
"People's Republic of Bangladesh". Psephos.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Bahasa Rangpur
- Divisi Rangpur
- Seluang bada
- Raja Prithu
- Bahasa Surjapuri
- Bangladesh
- Perbatasan Bangladesh–India
- Dahala Khagrabari
- Ras malai
- Tanqueray
- Rangpur-1
- Rangpur, Bangladesh
- Rangpur Division
- Rangpur District
- Rangpur Riders
- Electoral history of Hussain Muhammad Ershad
- Rangpur (fruit)
- Asaduzzaman Bablu (politician)
- Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur
- History of Rangpur
