Chittagong-5 | |
Parl Name: | Jatiya Sangsad |
District: | Chittagong District |
Region Label: | Division |
Region: | Chittagong Division |
Electorate: | 430,124 (2018) |
Year: | 1973 |
Members Label: | Member of Parliament |
Members: | Vacant |
Party Label: | Parliamentary Party |
Party: | Vacant |
Blank1 Name: | Prev. Constituency |
Blank1 Info: | Chittagong-4 (Constituency 281) |
Blank2 Name: | Next Constituency |
Blank2 Info: | Chittagong-6 (Constituency 283) |
Chittagong-5 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. Since 6 August 2024 the constituency is Vacant.
The constituency encompasses Hathazari Upazila and Chittagong Cantonment and Chattogram City Corporation No.1 South Pahartali Ward and No.2 Jalalabad Ward.
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 shifted the boundaries of the constituency. Previously it had encompassed Raozan Upazila and only one union parishad of Hathazari Upazila: Garduara.
Key
Anisul Islam Mahmud was elected unopposed in the 2014 General Election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election.
JaPa(E) | Plough | Anisul Islam Mahmud | 277,909 | 82.85 | N/A | ||
BKP | Sheaf of paddy | Syed Muhammad Ibrahim | 44,381 | 13.24 | N/A | ||
BIF | Candle | Md. Nayeemul Islam | 8,741 | 2.61 | N/A | ||
IFB | Chair | Sayed Hafiz Ahmed | 1,745 | 0.52 | N/A | ||
IAB | Hand fan | Mohammad Rafiq | 1,419 | 0.42 | N/A | ||
Independent | Lion | Mohammad Nasir Haider Karim | 537 | 0.16 | N/A | ||
IOJ | Minaret | Moin Uddin Ruhi | 375 | 0.11 | N/A | ||
BKA | Banyan | Mir Idris | 127 | 0.04 | N/A | ||
KM | Wall clock | Shihabuddin | 109 | 0.03 | N/A | ||
JUIB | Date palm | Md. Nasir Uddin | 79 | 0.02 | N/A | ||
Valid votes | 335,422 | 97.92 | |||||
Invalid votes | 7,114 | 2.08 | |||||
Total votes | 342,536 | 100.0 | |||||
Registered voters/turnout | 430,124 | 79.64 | |||||
Majority | 233,528 | 69.62 | |||||
Jatiya Party (Ershad) hold | Swing |