Mymensingh-2

Mymensingh-2 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Sharif Ahmed of the Awami League.

Mymensingh-2
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Mymensingh District
Division	Mymensingh Division
Electorate	450,703 (2018)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1973
← 146 Mymensingh-1 148 Mymensingh-3 →

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Phulpur Upazila and Tarakanda 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]

Ahead of the 2014 general election, the Election Commission expanded the boundaries of the constituency to include all of the former Phulpur Upazila (which in 2012 had been split into a smaller Phulpur Upazila and the new Tarakanda Upazila). Previously the constituency had excluded one union parishad: Bishka.^[3][6]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1973	Rashed Mosharraf	Awami League[7]
	1979	Ismail Hossain Talukder	Muslim League[8]
	1986	Md. Shamsul Haque	Awami League[9]
	1988	Rajab Ali Fakir	Jatiya Party[10]
	1991	Md. Shamsul Haque	Awami League
	Feb 1996	Abul Basar Akand	BNP
	Jun 1996	Md. Shamsul Haque	Awami League
	2001	Shah Shahid Sarwar	BNP
	2008	Hayatur Rahman Khan	Awami League
	2014	Sharif Ahmed

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Sharif Ahmed was elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election.^[11]

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2008: Mymensingh-2^[2][12][13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Hayatur Rahman Khan	172,533	63.8	+24.1
	BNP	Shah Shahid Sarwar	94,090	34.8	−15.7
	IAB	Golam Maula Bhuyan	2,485	0.9	N/A
	KSJL	Md. Anwar Hossain	1,128	0.4	N/A
Majority			78,443	29.0	+18.2
Turnout			270,236	84.2	+12.8
	AL gain from BNP

General Election 2001: Mymensingh-2^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Shah Shahid Sarwar	114,048	50.5	+20.3
	AL	Md. Shamsul Haque	89,631	39.7	+4.3
	IJOF	Zia Uddin Ahammed	21,006	9.3	N/A
	CPB	Abul Hashem	1,213	0.5	N/A
Majority			24,417	10.8	+5.6
Turnout			225,898	71.4	+13.4
	BNP gain from AL

Elections in the 1990s

General Election June 1996: Mymensingh-2^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Md. Shamsul Haque	50,497	35.4	−2.8
	BNP	Md. Ashraf Uddin Sarkar	43,037	30.2	+7.4
	JP(E)	Shah Shahid Sarwar	42,678	30.0	+9.3
	JI	Md. Anisuzzaman	4,219	3.0	−0.3
	IOJ	Md. Tafazzal Hossain Biswas	1,000	0.7	N/A
	Zaker Party	Md. Saifal Islam	377	0.3	0.0
	JSD	Md. Nazrul Islam	288	0.2	N/A
	Gano Forum	A.K.M. Raihan Uddin	202	0.1	N/A
	Bangladesh Muslim League (Jamir Ali)	Nurul Alam	153	0.1	N/A
Majority			7,460	5.2	−10.3
Turnout			142,451	58.0	+18.5
	AL hold

General Election 1991: Mymensingh-2^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Md. Shamsul Haque	35,432	38.2
	BNP	Zulmat Ali Khan	21,091	22.8
	JP(E)	Shah Shahid Sarwar	19,139	20.7
	Independent	Golam Mostafa	6,239	6.7
	JSD	Abdul Mansur Sarker	4,373	4.7
	JI	Md. Anisuzzaman	3,074	3.3
	Bangladesh Muslim League (Kader)	Ismail Hossain Talukder	2,489	2.7
	Jatiya Janata Party and Gonotantrik Oikkya Jot	Sheikh Alal Uddin	343	0.4
	Zaker Party	Md. A. Bari Sarker	266	0.3
	NAP (Muzaffar)	Abdul Zabbar	187	0.2
Majority			14,341	15.5
Turnout			92,633	39.5
	AL gain from BNP