Barishal district
6 parliamentary seats · 10 upazilas. The current member for each seat, according to Parliament's database.
About Barishal district
Barisal District, officially Barishal District or formerly called Bakerganj District, is a district in south-central Bangladesh; it was established as Bakerganj district in 1797. Its headquarters is in Barisal city, which is also the headquarters of Barisal Division.
The name
Barisal District is named after its headquarters, the city of Barisal. The toponym Barisal is etymologically derived from the Perso-Arabic phrase "Bahr-e-Sawal," translating to "the ship of questions".
History
The historic land of ancient Vaṅga, situated in present-day Barisal. Barishal was likely slowly built over time from silt from the Padma, Jamuna, and Meghna Rivers. The region was part of the ancient Gangaridai empire. Barisal was part of the early empires of Bengal, like the Palas and the Senas. A copper plate has been found in present Mehendiganj Upazila showing a land grant made to a Brahmin by Keshab Sen. However, the Hindu kings only controlled the northern part of the district, while dense forests covered the southern part and isolated the inhabitants from outside influence.
People
At the 2022 census, Barisal District had 629,626 households and a population of 2,570,446 with an average of 4.02 people per household. Among the population, 475,192 inhabitants were under 10 years of age. The population density was 923 people per km2.
Source: Wikipedia, Barisal District · CC BY-SA 4.0
Notable people of Barishal
- Syed Fazlul Karim, Islamic scholar and politician
- Abdul Wahab Khan, 3rd Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan
- Abdur Rahman Biswas, politician, president of Bangladesh
- Anil Biswas, music director and composer of Bollywood
- Aroj Ali Matubbar, philosopher
- Mahanambrata Brahmachari, Hindu saint
- Kanai Chatterjee, Bengali Maoist leader
- Ghatak Pakhi Bhai, Bangladeshi matchmaker
- Jibanananda Das, poet of Ruposi Bangla
- Kusumkumari Das, poet and mother of Jibanananda Das
- Aswini Kumar Dutta, social worker, founder of BM College
- Brajamohan Dutta, Bengali philanthropist and social worker
Map of the district
Boundaries from the Election Commission's description of the seats, drawn on the maps of OpenStreetMap (upazilas), OCHA (city corporations) and geoBoundaries (city wards; BBS, 2015); approximate. Background map from OpenStreetMap. 6 seats; tap an area to open that seat's page.
Seats and their members
Barishal is a district in Barishal division with 6 seats in Parliament: Barishal-1 (Gouranadi and Agailjhara upazilas), Barishal-2 (Wazirpur and Banaripara upazilas), Barishal-3 (Muladi and Babuganj upazilas), Barishal-4 (Mehendiganj and Hizla upazilas), Barishal-5 (the area under Barishal City Corporation and Barishal Sadar upazila) and Barishal-6 (Bakerganj upazila). In the 13th Parliament the seats are all held by the BNP. In the 12th Parliament (2024), of these seats the Awami League held 3, the Workers Party 1, the Jatiya Party 1 and an independent 1.
Zahir uddin SwaponBarishal-1, BNP
Sarder Sharfuddin AhmedBarishal-2, BNP
Zainul AbedinBarishal-3, BNP
Md. Razib AhsanBarishal-4, BNP
Md. Mazibar Rahman SarwarBarishal-5, BNP
Abul Hossain KhanBarishal-6, BNP
Source: Parliament of Bangladesh | Updated 24 October 2026