Chandpur-1 | |
Parl Name: | Jatiya Sangsad |
District: | Chandpur District |
Region Label: | Division |
Region: | Chittagong Division |
Electorate: | 265,966 (2018) |
Year: | 1984 |
Members: | Salim Mahmud |
Party: | Awami League |
Chandpur-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Salim Mahmud of the Awami League.
The constituency encompasses Kachua Upazila.
The constituency was created in 1984 from a Comilla constituency when the former Comilla District was split into three districts: Brahmanbaria, Comilla, and Chandpur.
Ahead of the 2008 general election, the Election Commission redrew constituency boundaries to reflect population changes revealed by the 2001 Bangladesh census. The 2008 redistricting altered the boundaries of the constituency.
Ahead of the 2014 general election, the Election Commission reduced the boundaries of the constituency. Previously it had also included one union parishad of Matlab Dakshin Upazila: Narayanpur.
Like 153 other constituencies out of the total 300 nationwide, Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir was re-elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after 18 parties led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party boycotted the election citing unfair conditions for the election.[1]