Dhaka-3

Dhaka-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008.

Dhaka-3
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Dhaka District
Division	Dhaka Division
Electorate	311,617 (2018)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1973
← 175 Dhaka-2 177 Dhaka-4 →

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses five union parishads of Keraniganj Upazila: Aganagar, Konda, Subhadya, Tegharia, and Zinjira.^[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	Mofizul Islam Khan Kamal	Awami League[6]
	1979	Nizam Uddin Khan	BNP[7]
Major Boundary Changes
	1986	Mostafa Mohsin Montu	Jatiya Party[8][9]
	1988	Md. Saifur Rahman
	1991	Amanullah Aman	BNP
	2008	Nasrul Hamid	Awami League

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Nasrul Hamid was re-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: Dhaka-3^[2][11][12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Nasrul Hamid	112,623	58.5	+24.8
	BNP	Gayeshwar Chandra Roy	02	0.0010	−27.5
	IAB	Md. Sultan Ahamed Khan	7,176	3.7	N/A
	Zaker Party	Kaisar Alam Topu	1,637	0.9	N/A
	BKA	Md. Fokrul Islam	394	0.2	−0.1
Majority			41,943	21.8	−8.7
Turnout			192,510	76.8	+8.8
	AL gain from BNP

General Election 2001: Dhaka-3^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Amanullah Aman	169,980	64.2	+4.3
	AL	Nasrul Hamid	89,375	33.7	+8.3
	IJOF	Md. Saiful Islam	4,108	1.6	N/A
	BKA	Abu Zafar Quasemi	922	0.3	+0.1
	Independent	Md. Moniruzzaman Rubel	383	0.1	N/A
	JSD	Habibur Rahman	203	0.1	N/A
Majority			80,605	30.4	−4.1
Turnout			264,971	68.0	−7.3
	BNP hold

Elections in the 1990s

General Election June 1996: Dhaka-3^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Amanullah Aman	124,096	59.9	+2.6
	AL	Md. Shah Jahan	52,662	25.4	−13.6
	JP(E)	Md. Saifur Rahman	22,093	10.7	+9.9
	Islamic Sashantantrik Andolan	Md. Nazrul Islam	3,131	1.5	N/A
	JI	Md. Abul Hasem	1,859	0.9	N/A
	Zaker Party	Alamgir Hossain	1,734	0.8	−0.7
	Independent	A. Samad	461	0.2	N/A
	Democratic Republican Party	Sk. Salah Uddin Ahmed	404	0.2	N/A
	BKA	Jalal Uddin	351	0.2	N/A
	Bangladesh Tafsil Jati Federation (S.K. Mandal)	Sri Sawpon Kumar Mandal	187	0.1	N/A
	Bangladesh Tafsili Federation (Sudir)	Sudir Chandra Sarker	150	0.1	N/A
Majority			71,434	34.5	+16.2
Turnout			207,128	75.3	+16.6
	BNP hold

General Election 1991: Dhaka-3^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Amanullah Aman	97,299	57.3
	AL	Mostafa Mohsin Montu	66,220	39.0
	Zaker Party	Alamgir Hossain	2,580	1.5
	JI	Md. Abul Hasem	1,676	1.0
	JP(E)	Obaidur Rahman	1,372	0.8
	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD	Md. Hafizur Rahman	348	0.2
	NDP	Md. Abul Hossain	304	0.2
Majority			31,079	18.3
Turnout			169,799	58.7
	BNP gain from JP(E)