Chittagong-14 Explained

Chittagong-14
Parl Name:Jatiya Sangsad
District:Chittagong District
Region Label:Division
Region:Chittagong Division
Electorate:249,043 (2018)
Year:1973
Party Label:Parliamentary Party
Party:None
Members Label:Member of Parliament
Members:Vacant
Local Council Label:Council area
Blank1 Name:Prev. Constituency
Blank1 Info:Chittagong-13 (Constituency 290)
Blank2 Name:Next Constituency
Blank2 Info:Chittagong-15 (Constituency 292)

Chittagong-14 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. Since 6 August 2024 the constituency is Vacant.

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Chandanaish Upazila and six union parishads of Satkania Upazila: Bazalia, Dharmapur, Kaliais, Keochia, Khagaria, Puranagar.

History

The constituency was created for the first general elections in newly independent Bangladesh, held in 1973.

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 renumbered the seat for Chittagong-16 (Sandwip) to Chittagong-3, bumping up by one the suffix of the former constituency of that name and higher numbered constituencies in the district. Thus Chittagong-14 covers the area previously covered by Chittagong-13. Previously Chittagong-14 encompassed Lohagara and all but seven union parishads of Satkania: Bazalia, Dharmapur, Kaliais, Keochia, Khagaria, Puranagar, and Sadaha.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1973M. SiddiqueAwami League
1979Mostaq Ahmed ChowdhuryBangladesh Nationalist Party
1986Ibrahim Bin KhalilAwami League
1991Shajahan ChowdhuryBangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
1996Oli AhmadBangladesh Nationalist Party
2001Shajahan ChowdhuryBangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
2008Shamsul IslamBangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
2014Nazrul Islam ChowdhuryAwami League

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Nazrul Islam Chowdhury was elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election. Nazrul Islam Chowdhury defeated Colonel Oli Ahmed with a margin of 1,68,000 votes in the 2018 general election

Elections in the 1990s

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