Tangail-8

Tangail-8 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament).

Tangail-8
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Tangail District
Division	Dhaka Division
Electorate	346,646 (2018)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1973
← 136 Tangail-7 138 Jamalpur-1 →

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Basail and Sakhipur upazilas.^[2][3]

History

The constituency was created for the first general elections in newly independent Bangladesh, held in 1973.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1973	Fazlur Rahman Faruque	Awami League[4]
	1979	Morshed Ali Khan Panni	BNP[5]
Major Boundary Changes
	1986	Shawkat Momen Shahjahan	Awami League[6]
	1988	Morshed Ali Khan Panni	Jatiya Party[7][8]
	1991	Humayun Khan Panni	BNP
	1996	Abdul Kader Siddique	Awami League
	1999 by-election	Shawkat Momen Shahjahan
	2001	Abdul Kader Siddique	Krishak Sramik Janata League
	2008	Shawkat Momen Shahjahan	Awami League[1]
	2014 by-election	Anupam Shahjahan Joy
	2018	Joaherul Islam
	2024	Anupam Shahjahan Joy

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Shawkat Momen Shahjahan died in January 2014, barely two weeks after the general election. Anupam Shahjahan Joy, his son, was elected in a by-election conducted in March and April. He defeated independent candidates Md. Malek Mian, Abu Sayed Azad, and Liakat Ali, and Jatiya Party (Ershad) candidate Sadek Siddiqui.^[9][10]

Shawkat Momen Shahjahan was re-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: Tangail-8^[2][12][13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Shawkat Momen Shahjahan	134,626	56.0	+27.1
	BNP	Ahmed Aazam Khan	65,521	27.2	+0.1
	KSJL	Abdul Kader Siddiqui	38,775	16.1	−26.6
	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD	Shafiul Alam	756	0.3	N/A
	BRWP	Shohiduzzaman Lal Miah	567	0.2	N/A
	LDP	Sheikh Faruquzzaman	293	0.1	N/A
Majority			69,105	28.7	+14.9
Turnout			240,538	88.8	+17.8
	AL gain from KSJL

General Election 2001: Tangail-8^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KSJL	Abdul Kader Siddique	80,558	42.7
	AL	Abdus Salam Khan	54,505	28.9
	BNP	Ahmed Azam Khan	51,135	27.1
	IJOF	Md. Rezaul Karim	1,306	0.7
	Independent	Nasir Uddin	877	0.5
	Jatiya Party (M)	Nilufar Yasmin	351	0.2
Majority			26,053	13.8
Turnout			188,732	71.0
	KSJL gain from AL

Elections in the 1990s

Abdul Kader Siddique was expelled from the Awami League in 1999 over disagreements with party leadership.^[15][16] He resigned from Parliament,^[17] and stood as an independent candidate in the resulting November 1999 by-election. He lost to Shawkat Momen Shahjahan of the Awami League.^[18][19]

General Election June 1996: Tangail-8^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Abdul Kader Siddique	100,303	62.6	+17.1
	BNP	Md. Qamruzzaman Khan	35,343	22.1	−25.2
	JP(E)	Shah Khaled Reza	20,485	12.8	+7.9
	JI	Khandakar Abdur Razzak	2,582	1.6	N/A
	FP	Md. A. Based	885	0.6	N/A
	Zaker Party	Md. Sohrab Ali	363	0.2	−0.1
	Gano Forum	Ershadul Haque Bulbul	168	0.1	N/A
Majority			64,690	40.4	+38.6
Turnout			160,129	78.4	+23.6
	AL gain from BNP

General Election 1991: Tangail-8^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Humayun Khan Panni	61,396	47.3
	AL	Abdul Kader Siddique	59,089	45.5
	JP(E)	Morshed Ali Khan Ponni	6,309	4.9
	JSD (S)	Md. Abul Hashim	1,562	1.2
	Jatiya Jukta Front	Md. Ashraf Ali	558	0.4
	Zaker Party	Md. Abdullah Miah	322	0.3
	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD	A. Samad	271	0.2
	NDP	Kh. Ruhul Amin Selim	233	0.2
Majority			2,307	1.8
Turnout			129,740	54.8
	BNP gain from JP(E)