Afroza Khanam
আফরোজা খানম
Government posts last checked: 24 October 2026, Cabinet
Profile
Afroza Khanam is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party member of the 13th Parliament elected from Manikganj-3 and currently Minister in the Ministry of Food.
She was born on 4 April 1962 in Gilond, Manikganj Sadar upazila, Manikganj district. She studied at University of Dhaka.
This is her first term as an MP. In the 2026 election she was elected with 167,345 votes, 103,103 more than the nearest rival (according to The Business Standard's count). She is a member of 1 committee of Parliament.
This introduction is put together from the information on this page: Parliament's list of members, the published election result and the Wikipedia facts marked with an asterisk in the list below. It contains no assessment of our own.
Afroza Khanam’s biography is available in Bangla. Read the biography in Bangla
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Constituency
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.
Terms in Parliament
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)BNPAccording to the Parliament Secretariat, she has been elected an MP once. Parliament’s database holds the records of the 4th, 5th and 7th to 12th Parliaments; it has no lists for the 1st to 3rd and the 6th, so an earlier term in those, if any, does not appear here.
Votes won in the 2026 election
All results for the seat →- Afroza KhanamBNPWinner167,34562.9%
- Muhammad Saidanur
Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis64,24224.1% - Md. Ataur Rahman AtaIndependent20,5517.7%
- Rafiqul Islam KhanIndependent3,6101.4%
- Md Shahjahan AliBangladesh JaSad3,5101.3%
- Shamsuddin
Islami Andolan2,7871.0% - Abul Bashar BadshaJatiya Party (Ershad)1,9660.7%
- Moazzem Hossain Khan MajlishJatiya Party (Ershad)1,3270.5%
- Mofizul Islam Khan KamalIndependent6840.3%
Parliament Secretariat notifications
Seat: Manikganj-3
Seat page →The Election Commission’s description of this seat’s area is available in Bangla. Read it in Bangla
Parliamentary committees(1)
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