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.
The constituency encompasses Dhaka South City Corporation wards 14 through 18, and 22.
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.
Election | Member | Party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
1973 | Khondakar Harun-ur-Rashid | Awami League | ||
1979 | Atauddin Khan | Bangladesh Nationalist Party | ||
Major Boundary Changes | ||||
style="background-color:" | 1986 | Sheikh Hasina | Awami League | |
1988 | A. S. M. Abdur Rab | Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal | ||
1991 | Abdul Mannan | Bangladesh Nationalist Party | ||
Feb 1996 | Bangladesh Nationalist Party | |||
June 1996 | HBM Iqbal | Awami League | ||
2001 | Abdul Mannan | Bangladesh Nationalist Party | ||
2004 by-election | Mohammad Mosaddak Ali | |||
Major Boundary Changes | ||||
2008 | AKM Rahmatullah | Awami League | ||
Major Boundary Changes | ||||
2014 | Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh | Awami League | ||
2018 | Awami League | |||
(By-election) 2020 | Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin | Awami League | ||
Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh was elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election.
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.