Tangail-8 Explained

Tangail-8
Parl Name:Jatiya Sangsad
District:Tangail District
Region Label:Division
Region:Dhaka Division
Electorate:346,646 (2018)
Year:1973

Tangail-8 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Anupam Shahjahan Joy of the Awami League.

Boundaries

The constituency encompasses Basail and Sakhipur upazilas.

History

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

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1973Fazlur Rahman FaruqueAwami League
1979Morshed Ali Khan PanniBNP
Major Boundary Changes
1986Shawkat Momen ShahjahanAwami League
1988Morshed Ali Khan PanniJatiya Party
1991Humayun Khan PanniBNP
1996Abdul Kader SiddiqueAwami League
1999 by-electionShawkat Momen Shahjahan
2001Abdul Kader SiddiqueKrishak Sramik Janata League
2008Shawkat Momen ShahjahanAwami League
2014 by-electionAnupam Shahjahan Joy
2018Joaherul Islam
2024Anupam 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.

Shawkat Momen Shahjahan was re-elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election.

Elections in the 1990s

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

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