Sylhet-3

Sylhet-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008 by Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury of the Awami League.

Sylhet-3
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Sylhet District
Division	Sylhet Division
Electorate	323,666 (2018)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1973
Party	Awami League
Member(s)	Habibur Rahman Habib
← 230 Sylhet-2 232 Sylhet-4 →

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Balaganj, Dakshin Surma, and Fenchuganj upazilas.^[2]

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.^[3] The 2008 redistricting altered the boundaries of the constituency.^[4]

Ahead of the 2018 general election, the Election Commission expanded the boundaries of the constituency by adding eleven union parishads of Balaganj Upazila: Balaganj, Boaljur, Burunga Bazar, Dayamir, Boula Bazar, Omarpur, Osmanpur, Paschim Pailanpur, Purba Pailanpur, Sadipur, and Tajpur.^[5][2][6]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1973	Abdur Rais	Awami League[7]
	1979	Dewan Shamsul Abedin	Bangladesh Nationalist Party[8]
Major Boundary Changes
	1986	Mohammad Habibur Rahman	Jatiya Party[9]
	1988	Abdul Mukit Khan	Jatiya Party[10]
	February 1996	Shafi Ahmad Chowdhury	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
	June 1996	Abdul Mukit Khan	Jatiya Party
	2001	Shafi Ahmad Chowdhury	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
	2008	Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury	Awami League
	2014
Major Boundary Changes
	2018	Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury	Awami League
	Sep: 2021 by-election	Habibur Rahman Habib	Awami League
	2024	Habibur Rahman Habib[11]	Awami League

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury was re-elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election.^[12]

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2008: Sylhet-3^[5][13][14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury	97,593	53.5	+16.1
	BNP	Shafi Ahmed Choudhury	54,955	30.1	−17.1
	JP(E)	Atiqur Rahman Atique	17,674	9.7	N/A
	Independent	Abdul Quiyum Choudhury	12,042	6.6	N/A
	JSD	Syed Habibur Rahman Hiron	212	0.1	−0.1
Majority			42,638	23.4	+13.6
Turnout			182,476	85.2	+12.1
	AL gain from BNP

General election 2001: Sylhet-3^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Shafi Ahmed Chowdhury	55,994	47.2	+18.9
	AL	Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury	44,342	37.4	+8.6
	IJOF	Abdul Mukit Khan	15,402	13.0	N/A
	Ganatantri Party	Subal Chandra Pal	1,400	1.2	N/A
	Independent	Mostafa Allama	362	0.3	N/A
	KSJL	Md. Badsha Mia	345	0.3	N/A
	Independent	Alauddin Ahmed	298	0.3	N/A
	JSD	Siddiqur Rahman	242	0.2	N/A
	Independent	Md. Mahbubur Rahman	124	0.1	N/A
	Independent	Md. Rashedul Hossain	84	0.1	N/A
Majority			11,652	9.8	+9.3
Turnout			118,593	73.1	+3.1
	BNP gain from JP(E)

Elections in the 1990s

General election June 1996: Sylhet-3^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP(E)	Abdul Mukit Khan	26,659	29.3	−9.1
	AL	Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury	26,168	28.8	+6.9
	BNP	Shafi Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury	25,954	28.6	+8.5
	JI	Abdul Basit	6,755	7.4	−2.1
	Sammilita Sangram Parishad	Md. Rafiqul Islam Khan	2,693	3.0	N/A
	IOJ	Alauddin Ahmed	790	0.9	N/A
	Zaker Party	Azmat Hossain	762	0.8	N/A
	Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh	Zakaria Masuk	414	0.5	N/A
	WPB	Shafiq Ahmed	325	0.4	N/A
	FP	Fayzul Alam Babul	140	0.2	N/A
	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD	M. A. Qayum Chowdhury	138	0.2	−0.6
	BKA	Idris Ahmed Zakaria	81	0.1	N/A
Majority			491	0.5	−16.0
Turnout			90,879	70.0	+18.3
	JP(E) hold

General election 1991: Sylhet-3^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP(E)	Abdul Mukit Khan	33,416	38.4
	AL	Atiqur Rahman Atique	19,057	21.9
	BNP	Shafi Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury	17,470	20.1
	JI	Abdul Basit	8,296	9.5
	Independent	Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury	7,095	8.1
	Jatiya Janata Party (Hafizur)	Abul Kalam Azad	721	0.8
	JSD	Saifur Razzak	532	0.6
	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD	Md. Abdun Nur	489	0.6
Majority			14,359	16.5
Turnout			87,076	51.7
	JP(E) hold