Chittagong-9 Explained

Chittagong-9
Parl Name:Jatiya Sangsad
District:Chittagong District
Region Label:Division
Region:Chittagong Division
Electorate:3,90,431 (2018)
Year:1973
Members Label:Member of Parliament
Members:Vacant
Party Label:Parliamentary Party
Party:Vacant
Local Council Label:City Council area
Local Council:Chattogram City Corporation
Blank1 Name:Prev. Constituency
Blank1 Info:Chittagong-8 (Constituency 285)
Blank2 Name:Next Constituency
Blank2 Info:Chittagong-10 (Constituency 287)

Chittagong-9 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. Since 6 August 2024 the constituency is Vacant.

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Chittagong City Corporation wards 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35.

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 reapportionment added one seat to Chittagong City and altered the boundaries of the three other seats in the city, including this one.

Ahead of the 2014 general election, the Election Commission renumbered the seat for Sandwip Upazila from Chittagong-16 to Chittagong-3, bumping up by one the suffix of the former constituency of that name and the higher numbered constituencies in the district. Thus Chittagong-9 covers the area previously covered by Chittagong-8. Previously Chittagong-9 encompassed Chittagong City Corporation wards 11 through 14, and 24 through 26, and part of ward 8.

In the 2018 general election, the constituency was one of six chosen by lottery to use electronic voting machines.

Members of Parliament

Key

ElectionMemberParty
1973KafiluddinBangladesh Awami League
1979Arif MoinuddinBangladesh Nationalist Party
1986Mohammad Sekander Hossain MiahJatiya Party (Ershad)
1988
1988 by-electionHarun Aur Rashid Khan
1991Abdullah Al NomanBangladesh Nationalist Party
1996M. A. MananBangladesh Awami League
2001Abdullah Al NomanBangladesh Nationalist Party
2008Md. Afsarul AmeenBangladesh Awami League
2014Ziauddin Ahmed BabluJatiya Party (Ershad)
2018Mohibul Hasan ChowdhuryBangladesh Awami League

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2018

General Election 2014

Elections in the 1990s

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