Jhenaidah-4

Jhenaidah-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014.

Jhenaidah-4
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Jhenaidah District
Division	Khulna Division
Electorate	281,621 (2018)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1984
← 83 Jhenaidah-3 85 Jessore-1 →

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Kaliganj Upazila and four union parishads of Jhenaidah Sadar Upazila: Fursandi, Ghorshal, Moharajpur, and Naldanga.^[2][3]

History

The constituency was created in 1984 from the Jessore-3 constituency when the former Jessore District was split into four districts: Jhenaidah, Jessore, Magura, and Narail.^[4]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1986	Abdus Sattar	Jatiya Party[5]
	1988	Noor Uddin	Independent[6]
	1991	Shahiduzzaman Beltu	BNP
	2008	Abdul Mannan	Awami League
	2014	Anwarul Azim Anar

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2014: Jhenaidah-4^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Anwarul Azim Anar	103,478	95.0	+44.1
	WPB	Mohammad Mostafa Alamgir	5,398	5.0	N/A
Majority			98,080	90.1	+87.9
Turnout			108,876	43.1	−48.5
	AL hold

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2008: Jhenaidah-4^[2][8][9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Abdul Mannan	105,852	50.9	+8.0
	BNP	Shahiduzzaman Beltu	101,175	48.7	−6.6
	BRWP	Abdus Salam	386	0.2	N/A
	National People's Party	Md. Kamrul Hasan	269	0.1	N/A
	United Citizen Movement	Noor Uddin Ahmed	235	0.1	N/A
Majority			4.677	2.2	−10.2
Turnout			207,917	91.6	+6.3
	AL gain from BNP

General Election 2001: Jhenaidah-4^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Shahiduzzaman Beltu	95,991	55.3	+9.5
	AL	Md. Abdul Mannan Mia	74,458	42.9	+5.5
	IJOF	Md. Shahjahan Ali	2,467	1.4	N/A
	WPB	Md. A. Salam	394	0.2	−0.4
	Independent	Golam Morshed	137	0.1	N/A
Majority			21,533	12.4	+4.0
Turnout			173,447	85.3	+4.5
	BNP hold

Elections in the 1990s

General Election June 1996: Jhenaidah-4^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Shahiduzzaman Beltu	60,696	45.8	+8.3
	AL	Abdul Mannan	49,605	37.4	+9.2
	JI	Md. Abu Taleb	20,106	15.2	−2.6
	JP(E)	Md. Jahidul Islam	1,311	1.0	N/A
	WPB	Abdus Salam	851	0.6	−0.8
Majority			11,091	8.4	−0.9
Turnout			132,569	80.8	+11.6
	BNP hold

General Election 1991: Jhenaidah-4^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Shahiduzzaman Beltu	41,971	37.5
	AL	Shah Md. Zahangir Shikder	31,553	28.2
	JI	Nazrul Islam	19,944	17.8
	Independent	Mohammad Ebadot Hossain Mondal	12,090	10.8
	IOJ	Rostam Ali	1,842	1.6
	WPB	Abdus Salam	1,536	1.4
	Independent	Noor Uddin Ahmed	1,451	1.3
	Zaker Party	Darbesh Ali Laskar	1,187	1.1
	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD	Abdur Razzak	274	0.2
Majority			10,418	9.3
Turnout			111,848	69.2
	BNP gain from