Esrat Sultana Elen Bhutto
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Government posts last checked: 24 October 2026, Cabinet
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Esrat Sultana Elen Bhutto is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party member of the 13th Parliament elected from Jhalokathi-2.
Esrat Sultana Elen Bhutto is the member of parliament (MP) for Jhalokathi-2 (Jhalakathi Sadar and Nalchity) in the 13th Parliament. She has represented this seat before, from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). She is the only woman candidate to win in the Barishal region in the 13th parliamentary election. She was born on 12 October 1966. She is the daughter of Golam Rahman Chowdhury and Mst. Rizia Chowdhury.
Her late husband, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was twice elected MP for Jhalokathi-2. After her husband's death, Elen Bhutto became active in BNP politics, and in the election to the 8th Parliament in 2001 she was elected MP for Jhalokathi-2 as the BNP candidate.
Having received the party's nomination for the election to the 13th Parliament held on 12 February 2026, she was again elected MP for Jhalokathi-2 with 113,419 votes on the sheaf of paddy symbol.
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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 twice in all; details of the earlier term were not found in Parliament's database. 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 →- Esrat Sultana Elen BhuttoBNPWinner113,41953.5%
- S M Neyamul Karim
Jamaat-e-Islami70,55633.3% - Muhammad Sirajul Islam Siraji
Islami Andolan24,54311.6% - Syed Razzak AliIndependent3,1251.5%
- Md Mahmudul Islam Sagar
Gono Odhikar Parishad2120.1% - Forkan HossainNPP1270.1%
- Masud ParvezJSD1050.0%
- Md Nuruddin SardarIndependent770.0%
Parliament Secretariat notifications
Seat: Jhalokathi-2
Seat page →Parliamentary committees(1)
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