2017 Rangpur City Corporation election

2017 Rangpur mayoral election

21 December 2017
Registered	393,894
Turnout	74.23%
Candidate Mostafizar Rahman Mostafa Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu Party JP(E) AL Popular vote 159,824 61,557 Percentage 55.01% 21.19%   Candidate Kawsar Zaman Babla A. T. M. Golam Mostafa Babu Party BNP IAB Popular vote 34,791 23,718 Percentage 11.97% 8.17%
Mayor before election Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu AL Elected Mayor Mostafizur Rahman Mostafa JP(E)

The 2017 election for mayor of Rangpur City Corporation was held on 21 December 2017. Rangpur is a city in Bangladesh. The result was a victory for the Jatiya Party candidate Mostafizar Rahman Mostafa.[1][2]

Mayoral election results

Rangpur mayoral election 2017[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP(E)	Mostafizur Rahman Mostafa	159,824	55.01%	—
	AL	Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu	61,557	21.19%	—
	BNP	Kawsar Zaman Babla	34,791	11.97%	—
	IAB	A. T. M. Golam Mostafa Babu	23,718	8.17%	—
	Independent	Hossain Maqbul Shahriar Asif	2,306	0.79%	New
	BSD	Abdul Quddus	1,245	0.43%	—
	National People's Party (Bangladesh)	Md. Selim Akhter	807	0.28%	New
Rejected ballots			6,273	2.16%
Majority			98,267	33.82%
Turnout			290,521	74.23%
Registered electors			391,366
	JP(E) hold

References

1. Chowdhury, Moinul Hoque; Billah, Masum; Azad, Shahzada Mia; bdnews24.com. "Jatiya Party's Mostafa wins landslide in Rangpur City mayor election". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
2. "Ex-Rangpur city mayor Jhantu dies at age 66". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
3. "JP wins big in bastion". The Daily Star. 2017-12-22. Retrieved 2020-03-02.