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Dinajpur-1
Dinajpur-1
Constituency; for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Dinajpur District
Division	Rangpur Division
Electorate	344,065 (2018)
Current constituency
Created	1973
	← 5 Thakurgaon-3 7 Dinajpur-2 →

Dinajpur-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. Since 6 August 2024 The constituency is vacant.

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Birganj and Kaharole 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	Kamaruddin Ahmed	Awami League^[4]
	1979	Jamiruddin Sarkar	BNP^[5]
Major Boundary Changes
	1986	Abdul Malek Sarkar	Awami League^[6]
	1988	Anisul Haque Chowdhury	Jatiya Party^[7]
	1991	Md. Aminul Islam	Awami League
	Feb 1996	Syed Ahmed Reza Hossain	BNP
	Jun 1996	Abdur Rauf Chowdhury	Awami League
	2001	Abdullah Al Kafi	Jamaat-e-Islami
	2005 by-election	Manoranjon Shill Gopal	Independent
	2008	Manoranjon Shill Gopal	Awami League
	2024	Zakaria Zaka	Independent

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2014: Dinajpur-1^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Manoranjon Shill Gopal	124,314	83.3	+26.7
	WPB	Abdul Haq	24,973	16.7	N/A
Majority			99,341	66.5	+52.3
Turnout			149,287	49.0	−43.9
	AL hold

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2008: Dinajpur-1^[2]^[9]^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AL	Manoranjon Shill Gopal	143,097	56.6
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Mohammed Hanif	107,168	42.4
	CPB	Md. Altaf Hussain	1,596	0.6
	IAB	Md. Jamal Uddin	898	0.4
Majority			35,929	14.2
Turnout			252,759	92.9
	AL gain from Jamaat-e-Islami

Abdullah Al Kafi died in September 2005. Independent candidate Manoranjon Shill Gopal was elected in a December by-election.^[11]

General Election 2001: Dinajpur-1^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Abdullah Al Kafi	88,669	44.9	+31.4
	AL	Abdur Rauf Chowdhury	৬০, ১৯৭	30.5	−11.7
	IJOF	Manoranjon Shill Gopal	৪০,৬২১	20.6	N/A
	JSD	Md. Abdul Khaleque Sarkar	6,848	3.5	N/A
	CPB	Md. Altaf Hussain	760	0.4	−0.1
	Independent	Abdul Malek Sarkar	279	0.1	N/A
Majority			28,472	14.4	−5.2
Turnout			197,374	85.2	+9.4
	Jamaat-e-Islami gain from AL

Elections in the 1990s

General Election June 1996: Dinajpur-1^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Abdur Rauf Chowdhury	60,681	42.2	−6.1
	BNP	Syed Ahmed Reza Hossain	32,437	22.5	+10.8
	JP(E)	Manoranjon Shill Gopal	29,583	20.6	+13.5
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Abdullah Al Kafi	19,463	13.5	−17.1
	CPB	Md. Altaf Hussain	756	0.5	N/A
	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD	Md. Abdul Khaleque	690	0.5	N/A
	Bangladesh Janata Party	Md. Ahad Ali	283	0.2	N/A
Majority			28,244	19.6	+1.9
Turnout			143,893	75.8	+11.9
	AL hold

General Election 1991: Dinajpur-1^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AL	Md. Aminul Islam	56,191	48.3
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Abdullah Al Kafi	35,598	30.6
	BNP	Md. A. Mannan	13,603	11.7
	JP(E)	Md. Anisul Haq	8,203	7.1
	NDP	Manoranjon Shill Gopal	2,194	1.9
	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD	Md. Abdul Khaleque	338	0.3
	Zaker Party	Md. Nazrul Islam	232	0.2
Majority			20,593	17,7
Turnout			116,359	63.9
	AL gain from

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