Comilla-1

Comilla-1 is a constituency of the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. Since 6 August 2024 the constituency is vacant.

Comilla-1
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Comilla District
Division	Chittagong Division
Electorate	347,071 (2018)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1973
Parliamentary Party	None
Member of Parliament	Vacant
Previous Constituency	Brahmanbaria-6 (Constituency 248)
Next Constituency	Comilla-2 (Constituency 250)

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Daudkandi and Meghna Upazila.^[2][3]

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.^[4] The 2008 redistricting altered the boundaries of the constituency.^[5]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1973	Mohammad Sayedul Haque	Awami League[6]
	1979	Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan	Bangladesh Nationalist Party[7]
Major Boundary Changes
	1986	Mohammad Mobarak Ali	Jatiya Party[8][9]
	1991	M. K. Anwar	BNP
	June 1996
	2008	Mohammad Shubid Ali Bhuiyan	Awami League
	2014
	2018
	2024	Abdus Sabur

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2014: Comilla-1^[10][11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Mohammad Shubid Ali Bhuiyan[note 1]	90,077	81.0	+27.8
	Independent	Naim Hasan	18,572	16.7	N/A
	JP(E)	Abu Jayed Al Mahmud[note 1]	2,026	1.8	N/A
	Independent	Md. Zaman Sarkar[note 1]	302	0.3	N/A
	Independent	Basudeb Saha[note 1]	268	0.2	N/A
Majority			71,505	64.3	+55.7
Turnout			111,245	36.3	−46.8
	AL hold

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2008: Comilla-1^[2][12][13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Mohammad Shubid Ali Bhuiyan	114,818	53.2	+21.6
	BNP	Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain	96,378	44.7	−22.7
	IAB	Md. Al Amin	1,977	0.9	N/A
	Independent	Md. Abdus Sattar	1,920	0.9	N/A
	Zaker Party	Md. Hazrat Ali Khan	309	0.1	N/A
	BKA	Sultan Mohiuddin	244	0.1	N/A
Majority			18,440	8.6	−27.2
Turnout			215,646	83.1	+20.4
	AL gain from BNP

General Election 2001: Comilla-1^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	M. K. Anwar	73,936	67.4	−1.0
	AL	Jahangir Alam Sarkar	34,645	31.6	+2.4
	IJOF	Shamsuddin Ahamed	592	0.5	N/A
	Independent	Mojammel Haq	384	0.4	N/A
	Jatiya Party (M)	Mohammad Golam Mustafa	100	0.1	N/A
Majority			39,291	35.8	−3.4
Turnout			109,657	62.7	+0.6
	BNP hold

Elections in the 1990s

General Election June 1996: Comilla-1^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	M. K. Anwar	69,356	68.4	−3.6
	AL	Jahangir Alam Sarkar	29,594	29.2	+7.2
	JP(E)	Mahabubul Haque Dulon	843	0.8	N/A
	IOJ	A. Samad	697	0.7	N/A
	JI	Md. A. Aziz Molla	544	0.5	N/A
	Zaker Party	A. T. M. Obaidul Haque	317	0.3	N/A
Majority			39,762	39.2	−10.8
Turnout			101,351	62.1	+14.3
	BNP hold

General Election 1991: Comilla-1^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	M. K. Anwar	69,941	72.0
	AL	Mortuza Hossain Mollah	21,380	22.0
	Independent	Chowdhury ABM Kawsar Ahmed	2,338	2.4
	Independent	Md. Monir Ahmed	1,535	1.6
	Bangladesh Janata Party	AKM Zamshed Alam	1,118	1.2
	NAP (Muzaffar)	Shafiq Ahang Khan	376	0.4
	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD	AKM Fazlul Haq	323	0.3
	Jatiya Janata Party and Gonotantrik Oikkya Jot	Sarkar Nasiruddin Ahmed	147	0.2
Majority			48,561	50.0
Turnout			97,158	47.8
	BNP gain from JP(E)

Notes

1. Sources vary. One reports a lower 2014 turnout of 109,117 with a somewhat higher vote count for Bhuiyan, and lower vote counts for the candidates finishing in third through fifth place, but the discrepancies in the figures are not large enough to change the overall outcome.