Comilla-2

Comilla-2 is a constituency of the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. Since 6 August 2024 the constituency is vacant.

Comilla-2
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Comilla District
Division	Chittagong Division
Electorate	290,027 (2018)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1973
Parliamentary Party	None
Member of Parliament	Vacant
Previous Constituency	Comilla-1 (Constituency 249)
Next Constituency	Comilla-3 (Constituency 251)

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Homna and Titas upazilas.^[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	Taher Uddin Thakur	Awami League[6]
	1979	Md. Faridul Huda	BNP[7]
Major Boundary Changes
	1986	Abdur Rashid	Jatiya Party[8][9]
	1991	Khandokar Mosharraf Hossain	BNP
	June 1996
	2001
	2008	M. K. Anwar
	2014	Mohammed Amir Hossain	Jatiya Party
	2018	Selima Ahmad	Awami League[1]
	2024	Abdul Majid	Independent

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Mohammed Amir Hossain was elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election.^[10]

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2008: Comilla-2^[2][11][12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	M. K. Anwar	94,105	53.7	−7.1
	AL	Md. Abdul Majid	76,666	43.8	+18.0
	IAB	Rafiqul Islam	1,807	1.0	N/A
	Independent	Md. Monowar Hossain	1,802	1.0	N/A
	PDP	Md. Golam Mostafa	811	0.5	N/A
Majority			17,439	10.0	−25.0
Turnout			175,191	83.4	+21.2
	BNP hold

General Election 2001: Comilla-2^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Khandokar Mosharraf Hossain	128,680	60.8	+16.8
	AL	Hasan Jamil Sattar	54,651	25.8	+15.2
	Independent	Mohammad Shubid Ali Bhuiyan	25,012	11.8	N/A
	IJOF	Jahed Al Mahmud	2,336	1.1	N/A
	Independent	Md. Shahid Ullah Sarkar	462	0.2	N/A
	Gano Forum	Ayesha Begum	341	0.2	N/A
	Jatiya Party (M)	Sohel Sarkar	248	0.1	N/A
Majority			74,029	35.0	+32.0
Turnout			211,730	62.2	−5.4
	BNP hold

Elections in the 1990s

General Election June 1996: Comilla-2^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Khandokar Mosharraf Hossain	69,175	44.0	−13.7
	JP(E)	Hasan Jamil Sattar	64,461	41.0	+39.5
	AL	Abdur Rashid	16,712	10.6	−2.1
	JI	A.B.M.A. Momin Sarkar	4,461	2.8	−2.6
	IOJ	Rafiqul Islam	1,605	1.0	N/A
	Independent	S. A. Hashem	430	0.3	N/A
	Independent	Md. Mohsin Bhuiyan	393	0.2	N/A
Majority			4,714	3.0	−42.0
Turnout			157,237	67.6	+26.6
	BNP hold

General Election 1991: Comilla-2^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Khandokar Mosharraf Hossain	57,706	57.7
	AL	Badal Kumar Roy	12,699	12.7
	Independent	Abdur Rashid	12,076	12.1
	Zaker Party	Md. Tofazzal Hossain	6,037	6.0
	JI	Md. A. Latif	5,413	5.4
	Independent	Kh. Mohiuddin	3,076	3.1
	JP(E)	Matiur Rahman	1,524	1.5
	Bangladesh Janata Party	Milan	876	0.9
	FP	A. Latif Shikder	543	0.5
Majority			45,007	45.0
Turnout			99,950	41.0
	BNP gain from JP(E)