The Awami League has won the Bogra-7 (Gabatli-Shajahanpur) seat after 51 years through the January 7 election.
District AL Adviser and Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) President Dr Mustafa Alam Nannu has ended the drought for Boat in the constituency. Twelve candidates, including the current and former members of parliament, have lost to Nannu.
They also lost their security deposits.
According to Election Commission (EC) sources, the boundary of the constituency was changed when Shajahanpur Upazila was added to Bogra-7 in 1986. In the 1973 elections, Amanullah Khan was elected from the AL. After that, the seat was lost the BNP, Jatiya Party (JaPa) and independent candidates.
BNP founder and late president General Ziaur Rahman hails from Gabtoli Upazila of Bogra. As a result, the party started dominating the constituency, and in the 1979 elections, the BNP's Habibur Rahman was elected. After the boundary was changed in1986, JaPa's ATM Aminul Islam Sarkar Pintu, came out victorious from the seat.
In the 1991 elections, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was elected from the seat, but she left the seat and kept Feni-1 for herself. Her adviser Helaluzzaman Talukdar Lalu won the by-election from the seat. The same thing happened in 1996 and 2001 as well. In 2008, Barrister Moudud Ahmed won the by-election from the BNP after Khaleda Zia had left the seat once again.
In 2014, the BNP boycotted the polls, and JaPa candidate Muhammad Altab Ali won the seat.
Independent candidate Rezaul Karim Bablu came out victorious from the seat in 2018 as the AL slipped in tactics and the BNP could not contest from the constituency.
In the January 7 election of 2024, AL candidate Nannu bagged 91,029 votes from the seat, while his closest contestant, JaPa’s ATM Aminul Islam Sarkar Pintu, bagged 6,801 votes. There were 13 candidates in the seat, and 12 of them lost their security deposits.
Bablu, who had won the 2018 polls from the seat, could only bag 2,007 votes this time. He secured over 1.9 lakh votes in 2018.
On February 1, last year, district AL General Secretary Ragebul Ahsan Ripu won the by-election of Bogra-6 (Sadar) constituency, ending a 51-year drought for the party in the seat. He came out as a winner in the January 7 election with a big margin as well. The seat, dominated by the BNP-Jamaat, was won by AL’s SM Sirajul Islam in the 1973 elections.