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Constituency of Bangladesh's Jatiya Sangsad

Faridpur-4 Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad District Faridpur District Division Dhaka Division Electorate 370,695 (2018)[1] Current constituency Created 1984 Parliamentary Party Bangladesh Nationalist Party Member of Parliament Md. Shohidul Islam Babul ← 213 Faridpur-3 215 Gopalganj-1 →

**Faridpur-4** is a constituency represented in the [Jatiya Sangsad](/source/Jatiya_Sangsad) (National Parliament) of [Bangladesh](/source/Bangladesh). Since 6 August 2024, the constituency remains vacant.

## Boundaries

The constituency encompasses [Bhanga](/source/Bhanga_Upazila) and [Charbhadrasan](/source/Charbhadrasan_Upazila) upazilas, and all but one [union parishad](/source/Union_parishad) of [Sadarpur Upazila](/source/Sadarpur_Upazila): Krishnapur.[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](/source/2008_Bangladeshi_general_election), the [Election Commission](/source/Bangladesh_Election_Commission) redrew constituency boundaries to reflect population changes revealed by the [2001 Bangladesh census](/source/2001_Bangladesh_census).[4] The 2008 redistricting altered the boundaries of the constituency.[5]

## Members of Parliament

Election Member Party 1973 Delwar Hossain Awami League[6] 1979 Shah Mohammad Abu Zafar Awami League[7] Major Boundary Changes 1986 Mohammad Azharul Haque Jatiya Party[8][9] 1991 Mosharraf Hossain Awami League February 1996 Chowdhury Akmal Ibne Yusuf Bangladesh Nationalist Party June 1996 Mosharraf Hossain Awami League 1999 by-election Saleha Mosharraf Awami League 2001 Abdur Razzak Awami League 2002 by-election Chowdhury Akmal Ibne Yusuf Bangladesh Nationalist Party 2008 Nilufer Zafarullah Awami League 2014 Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury Independent 2018 2024 2026 Md. Shohidul Islam Bangladesh Nationalist Party

## Elections

### Elections in the 2010s

**General Election 2018**

General Election 2018: Faridpur-4[1] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Independent Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury 1,44,179 57.4 −0.1 AL Kazi Zafarullah 94,234 37.5 −4.7 BNP Khandker Iqbal Hossain 12,380 4.9 N/A Majority 49,945 19.9 Turnout 2,50,793 67.66 Registered electors 3,70,695 Independent hold

**General Election 2014**

General Election 2014: Faridpur-4[10][11][12] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Independent Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury 98,300 57.5 N/A AL Kazi Zafarullah 72,248 42.2 −24.0 Jatiya Party (M) Mohammad Zakir Hossain 559 0.3 N/A Majority 26,052 15.2 −21.5 Turnout 171,107 53.2 +16.5 Independent gain from AL

### Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2008: Faridpur-4[2][13][14] Party Candidate Votes % ±% AL Nilufer Zafarullah 157,491 66.0 +63.3 Zaker Party Mostafa Amir Faisal 70,085 29.4 N/A IAB Shamsuddin 6,468 2.7 N/A BNP Shah Alam Reza 3,937 1.7 −92.9 Majority 87,406 36.7 −55.2 Turnout 237,981 85.9 +31.6 AL gain from BNP

[Abdur Razzaq](/source/Abdur_Razzaq_(politician%2C_born_1942)) stood for two seats in the 2001 general election: Faridpur-4 and [Shariatpur-3](/source/Shariatpur-3). After winning both, he chose to represent the latter and quit the former, triggering a by-election. Chowdhury Akmal Ibne Yusuf was elected in a January 2002 by-election.[15]

Faridpur-4 by-election, 2002[15] Party Candidate Votes % ±% BNP Chowdhury Akmal Ibne Yusuf 85,047 94.6 +91.2 AL Saleha Mosharraf 2,390 2.7 −47.1 Independent Monowara Begum 1,643 1.8 N/A Jatiya Party (M) Md. Nurul Abedin 821 0.9 N/A Majority 82,657 91.9 +88.7 Turnout 89,901 54.3 −13.5 BNP gain from AL

General Election 2001: Faridpur-4[16] Party Candidate Votes % ±% AL Abdur Razzaq 56,231 49.8 Independent Chowdhury Akmal Ibne Yusuf 52,586 46.6 BNP Md. Zahirul Haq 3,868 3.4 Independent A. K. Shajahan Haider 177 0.2 Majority 3,645 3.2 Turnout 112,862 67.8 AL hold

Mosharaf Hossain died in August 1999.[17] His widow, Saleha Mosharraf, was elected in an October by-election.[18][19]

### Elections in the 1990s

General Election June 1996: Faridpur-4[16] Party Candidate Votes % ±% AL Mosharraf Hossain 45,580 48.4 −1.2 BNP Chowdhury Akmal Ibne Yusuf 32,630 34.6 +6.3 JP(E) Azaharul Haque 7,562 8.0 N/A Jamaat Abdul Quader Molla 4,906 5.2 N/A Zaker Party A. H. M. Nazmul Huda 2,846 3.0 −18.0 IOJ Md. Nurul Abedin 672 0.7 N/A Majority 12,950 13.7 −7.6 Turnout 94,196 74.0 +22.8 AL hold

General Election 1991: Faridpur-4[16] Party Candidate Votes % ±% AL Mosharraf Hossain 43,313 49.6 BNP Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf 24,730 28.3 Zaker Party Md. Adel Uddin Hawladar 18,348 21.0 Bangladesh Janata Party Md. Abdul Latif Miah 863 1.0 Majority 18,583 21.3 Turnout 87,254 51.2 AL gain from JP(E)

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## External links

- ["People's Republic of Bangladesh"](http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/b/bangladesh/). *Psephos*.

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