Faridpur district
4 parliamentary seats · 9 upazilas. The current member for each seat, according to Parliament's database.
About Faridpur district
Faridpur District is a district in south-central Bangladesh. It is a part of Dhaka Division. It is bounded by the Padma River to the northeast. The district was named for its headquarters, the city of Faridpur, which itself was named for Farīd-ud-Dīn Masʿūd, a 13th-century Sufi saint. A separate district was created by severing Dhaka district in 1786 and was called Dacca Jelalpur. Separate Faridpur District was formed in 1815. Faridpur Municipality was established in 1869. Historically, the town was known as Fatehabad. It was also called Haveli Mahal Fatehabad.
History
The town of Fatehabad was located by a stream known as the Dead Padma, which was 32 kilometres from the main channel of the Padma River. Sultan Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah established a mint in Fatehabad during his reign in the early 15th century. Fatehabad continued to be a mint town of the Bengal Sultanate until 1538. In Ain-i-Akbari, it was named as Haweli Mahal Fatehabad during the reign of Emperor Akbar in the Mughal Empire. The Portuguese cartographer João de Barros mentioned it as Fatiabas. The Dutch map of Van den Brouck described it as Fathur.
People
According to the 2022 Census of Bangladesh, Faridpur District had 525,877 households and a population of 2,162,879. The population density was 1,054 people per km2. Faridpur District had a literacy rate of 72.13%, compared to the national average of 74.80%, and a sex ratio of 1059 females per 1000 males. 415,692 inhabitants were under 10 years of age.
Economy
Faridpur is an important centre of the jute trade and hilsa fish trade. Its industrial sector features numerous jute mills, sugar mills and a 50 MW thermal power plant. In terms of transport, Faridpur is an important hub of the Bangladesh Railway, with its tracks connected to the Indian Railways in West Bengal. It is linked by road with Kushtia, Meherpur, Khulna, Barisal, and Jessore.
Culture and heritage
Faridpur District has a rich heritage of Folk music, including Baul, Marami, Bichar, Murshidi-Marfati, Fakirali, Gazirgan, Kabigan, Jarigan music. However many of these traditions are extinct. Major festivals include Eid, Nabanna, Pous Utshab, Rathjatra, Dol Purnima Utshab and Durga Puja.
Source: Wikipedia, Faridpur District · CC BY-SA 4.0
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. 4 seats; tap an area to open that seat's page.
Seats and their members
Faridpur is a district in Dhaka division with 4 seats in Parliament: Faridpur-1 (Madhukhali, Boalmari and Alfadanga upazilas), Faridpur-2 (Nagarkanda and Saltha upazilas), Faridpur-3 (Faridpur Sadar upazila) and Faridpur-4 (Bhanga, Charbhadrasan and Sadarpur upazilas). In the 13th Parliament, of these seats the BNP holds 3 and Jamaat-e-Islami 1. In the 12th Parliament (2024), of these seats the Awami League held 2 and independents 2.
Md. Elias MollaFaridpur-1, Jamaat-e-Islami
Shama Obaed IslamFaridpur-2, BNP
Nayab Yusuf AhmedFaridpur-3, BNP
Md. Shohidul IslamFaridpur-4, BNP
Source: Parliament of Bangladesh | Updated 24 October 2026