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Ariful Haque Choudhury

Ariful Haque Choudhury

আরিফুল হক চৌধুরী

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)Sylhet-4Sylhet district
Current member, 13th ParliamentMinister, Ministry of Labour and EmploymentMinister, Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment

Government posts last checked: 24 October 2026, Cabinet

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Ariful Haque Choudhury (BNP) is the MP for Sylhet-4 and Minister in the Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment and Ministry of Labour…

He was born on 23 November 1959 in Kumarpara, Sylhet, Bangladesh.

This is his first term as an MP. In the 2026 election he was elected with 181,609 votes, 115,833 more than the nearest rival (according to The Business Standard's count). He is a member of 2 committees 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.

Ariful Haque Choudhury’s biography is available in Bangla. Read the biography in Bangla

Born23 November 1959 (aged 66)
BirthplaceKumarpara, Sylhet, Bangladesh*
GenderMale
Current term17 February 2026 to 16 February 2031
Elected an MPOnce

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Constituency

Sylhet-4

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

13th Parliament, 2026Sylhet-4Current termBNP

According to the Parliament Secretariat, he 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

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13th Parliament, 2026Candidates' total: 247,385 votes
  1. Ariful Haque ChoudhuryBNPWinner181,60973.4%
  2. Md. Joynal AbedinJamaat-e-Islami65,77626.6%
Source: The Business Standard. Not checked against the Election Commission's gazette. The source has no vote count for 3 candidates. English Wikipedia gives the winner's votes as 186,846.Original page

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Seat: Sylhet-4

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(a) Companiganj, (b) Gowainghat and (c) Jaintiapur upazilas

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