Dhaka-10 Explained

Dhaka-10
Parl Name:Jatiya Sangsad
District:Dhaka District
Region Label:Division
Region:Dhaka Division
Electorate:313,744 (2018)
Year:1973
Members Label:Member of Parliament
Members:vacant
Party Label:Parliamentary Party
Local Council Label:City Council area
Local Council:Dhaka South City Corporation
Blank1 Name:Prev. Constituency
Blank1 Info:Dhaka-9
Blank2 Name:Next Constituency

Dhaka-10 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. Since 6 August 2024 The constituency is vacant.

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Dhaka South City Corporation wards 14 through 18, and 22.

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.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1973Khondakar Harun-ur-RashidAwami League
1979Atauddin KhanBangladesh Nationalist Party
Major Boundary Changes
style="background-color:" 1986Sheikh HasinaAwami League
1988A. S. M. Abdur RabJatiya Samajtantrik Dal
1991Abdul MannanBangladesh Nationalist Party
Feb 1996Bangladesh Nationalist Party
June 1996HBM IqbalAwami League
2001Abdul MannanBangladesh Nationalist Party
2004 by-electionMohammad Mosaddak Ali
Major Boundary Changes
2008AKM RahmatullahAwami League
Major Boundary Changes
2014Sheikh Fazle Noor TaposhAwami League
2018Awami League
(By-election) 2020Shafiul Islam MohiuddinAwami League

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh was elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election.

Elections in the 2000s

Abdul Mannan resigned from parliament in March 2004 to join a new political party, Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh. Mannan's resignation triggered a July 2004 by-election, in which Mohammad Mosaddak Ali of the BNP was elected.

Elections in the 1990s

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