Dhaka-8

Dhaka-8 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008 by Rashed Khan Menon of the Workers Party of Bangladesh.

Dhaka-8
Constituency for the Jatiya Sangsad
District	Dhaka District
Division	Dhaka Division
Electorate	264,664 (2018)^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1973
Parliamentary Party	Workers Party of Bangladesh
Member of Parliament	Rashed Khan Menon
City Council area	Dhaka South City Corporation
Prev. Constituency	Dhaka-7
Next Constituency	Dhaka-9

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Dhaka South City Corporation wards 8 through 13, and 19 through 21.^[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	K. M. Shamsul Huda	Awami League^[6]
	1979	Md. Abdul Hai	Bangladesh Nationalist Party^[7]
Major Boundary Changes
	1986	Mohammad Harun ar Rashid	Jatiya Party^[8]
	1988	Anwar Hossain	Jatiya Party^[9]
	1991	Mir Shawkat Ali	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
	Feb 1996		Bangladesh Nationalist Party
	June 1996	Haji Mohammad Salim	Awami League
	2001	Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Major Boundary Changes
	2008	Rashed Khan Menon	Grand Alliance
	2014		Grand Alliance
	2018		Grand Alliance

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Rashed Khan Menon was re-elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election.^[10]

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2008: Dhaka-8^[2][11][12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Workers Party	Rashed Khan Menon	97,841	59.6	+59.5
	BNP	Habib-un Nobi Khan Sohel	63,860	38.9	-9.3
	IAB	AKM Arfan Khan	840	0.5	N/A
	Bangladesh Kalyan Party	Syed Mohammed Ibrahim	688	0.4	N/A
	BKA	Mojibur Rahman Hamidi	294	0.2	+0.4
	BSD	Md. Rajekujjaman	229	0.2	N/A
	BDB	Md. Safiqul Islam	195	0.1	N/A
	Independent	Mrs. Nasrin Anwar	89	0.1	N/A
	Gano Front	Nur Alam Bikhato	61	0.0	N/A
	BJP	Kazi Mominul Haq	60	0.0	N/A
	Independent	Abdul Bari	45	0.0	N/A
	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD	Md. Asadujjaman	28	0.0	N/A
Majority			33,981	20.7	+20.1
Turnout			164,230	73.1	+8.6
	Workers Party gain from BNP

General Election 2001: Dhaka-8^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu	89,789	48.2	+11.0
	Bangladesh Awami League	Haji Mohammad Salim	88,697	47.6	-1.8
	IJOF	Saifuddin Ahmed	5,403	2.9	N/A
	BKA	Qari Shah Ahmadullah	1,201	0.6	N/A
	Independent	Firoz Khan	560	0.3	N/A
	Workers Party	Kamrul Hasan Riday	205	0.1	N/A
	JSD	Md. Abdul Khaleque	105	0.1	N/A
	Jatiya Party (M)	Hannan Chowdhury	91	0.0	N/A
	Independent	Maububur Rahman Faisal	52	0.0	N/A
	Independent	Md. Jahangir Alam Masud	51	0.0	N/A
	Independent	Md. Mafizul Islam	27	0.0	N/A
Majority			1,092	0.6	-11.7
Turnout			186,181	64.5	-5.3
	BNP gain from Bangladesh Awami League

Elections in the 1990s

General Election June 1996: Dhaka-8^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bangladesh Awami League	Haji Mohammad Salim	77,642	49.4	+13.5
	BNP	Abul Hasnat	58,367	37.2	-19.0
	JP(E)	Saifuddin Ahmed	14,022	8.9	+7.4
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Sabbir Ahmed	3,486	2.2	-0.2
	IOJ	Jamal Naser Chowdhury	1,878	1.2	N/A
	Zaker Party	Zakir Hossain Khan	812	0.5	-0.3
	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD	Sheikh Rashid Mahmud	508	0.3	N/A
	NAP	A. H. Shahab Uddin	352	0.2	N/A
	Bangladesh Muslim League (Jamir Ali)	Md. Rashidul Islam	39	0.0	N/A
Majority			19,275	12.3	-8.0
Turnout			157,106	69.8	+22.3
	Bangladesh Awami League gain from BNP

General Election 1991: Dhaka-8^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Mir Shawkat Ali	53,651	56.2
	Bangladesh Awami League	Mostafa Jalal Mohiuddin	34,285	35.9
	Jamaat-e-Islami	Sabbir Ahmed	2,318	2.4
	BKA	Ahmadullah Ashraf	1,447	1.5
	JP(E)	Gulzar Hossain	1,398	1.5
	Zaker Party	Amanullah Azim	786	0.8
	Jatiya Tarun Sangha	Md. Fazlul Haq	417	0.4
	JSD	Abul Hasib Khan	384	0.4
	Ideal Party	Syed Kamal Zaidi	251	0.3
	Bangladesh Bekar Samaj	Md. Hasan	147	0.2
	Bangladesh Manobatabadi Dal	B. H. Rana	122	0.1
	Independent	A. Rashid	112	0.1
	Bangladesh Muslim League (Yusuf)	Sk. Abdul Malek	78	0.1
	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD	Humayun Kabir Hiru	70	0.1
Majority			19,366	20.3
Turnout			95,466	47.5
	BNP gain from

References

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External links

• "People's Republic of Bangladesh". Psephos.

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