Sylhet-4

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

Sylhet-4
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Sylhet District
Division	Sylhet Division
Electorate	382,231 (2018)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1973
Party	Awami League
Member(s)	Imran Ahmad
← 231 Sylhet-3 233 Sylhet-5 →

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Companiganj, Gowainghat, and Jaintiapur 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	A. H. M. Abdul Hai	Awami League[6]
	1979	Iqbal Hossain Chowdhury	Bangladesh Nationalist Party[7]
Major Boundary Changes
	1986	Imran Ahmad	Awami League[8]
	1988	Abdul Hannan	[9]
	1991	Imran Ahmad	Awami League
	Feb 1996	Saifur Rahman	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
	Jun 1996
	Sep 1996 by-election	Imran Ahmad	Awami League
	2001	Dildar Hossain Selim	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
	2008	Imran Ahmad	Awami League

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2014: Sylhet-4^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Imran Ahmad	63,323	72.3	+13.2
	Independent	Mohammad Faruk Ahmed	24,274	27.7	N/A
Majority			39,049	44.6	+25.9
Turnout			87,597	26.8	−59.2
	AL hold

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2008: Sylhet-4^[2][11][12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Imran Ahmad	144,198	59.1	+24.5
	JI	Dildar Hossain Selim	98,545	40.4	N/A
	Bangladesh Kalyan Party	Mohammad Helal Uddin	1,252	0.5	N/A
Majority			45,653	18.7	+8.0
Turnout			243,995	86.0	+15.4
	AL gain from BNP

General Election 2001: Sylhet-4^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Dildar Hossain Selim	62,324	45.3
	AL	Imran Ahmad	47,608	34.6
	Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh	Mohammad Ali	19,256	14.0
	IJOF	Kazi Kamal Ahmad	8,171	5.9
	Jatiya Party (M)	Rashid Helali	332	0.2
Majority			14,716	10.7
Turnout			137,691	70.6
	BNP hold

Elections in the 1990s

Saifur Rahman stood for three seats in the June 1996 general election, and won two of them: Sylhet-4 and Moulvibazar-3. He chose to represent Moulvibazar-3 and quit Sylhet-4, triggering a by-election. His main opponent from the general election, Imran Ahmad, was elected in a September 1996 by-election.^[14]

General Election June 1996: Sylhet-4^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Saifur Rahman	23,946	25.8	−1.2
	AL	Imran Ahmad	22,725	24.5	−18.3
	Independent	Dildar Hossain Selim	17,009	18.3	N/A
	Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh	Nurul Islam	14,294	15.4	N/A
	JP(E)	Md. Siraj Uddin	10,578	11.4	N/A
	JI	Abdul Mannan	3,095	3.3	N/A
	Zaker Party	Golam Kader Talukdar	557	0.6	−3.1
	Independent	Md. Abdul Ahad	359	0.4	N/A
	Independent	Md. Muslim Uddin Bhuiyan	218	0.2	N/A
	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD	Monir Uddin Master	147	0.2	−24.0
Majority			1,221	1.3	−14.5
Turnout			92,928	61.9	+26.9
	BNP gain from AL

General Election 1991: Sylhet-4^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Imran Ahmad	23,018	42.8
	BNP	Nazim Kamran Choudhury	14,508	27.0
	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD	Monir Uddin Master	13,008	24.2
	Zaker Party	Shafiqur Rahman	2,016	3.7
	JSD	Nasir Uddin	1,109	2.1
	Islami Samajtantrik Dal	Mosammat Minara Begum	172	0.3
Majority			8,510	15.8
Turnout			53,831	35.0
	AL gain from