Rafiqul Islam Jamal
রফিকুল ইসলাম জামাল
Government posts last checked: 24 October 2026, Cabinet
Profile
Rafiqul Islam Jamal is a member of the 13th Parliament elected from Jhalokathi-1 and Secretary for Religious Affairs of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
He was born on 10 January 1964. By profession he is a businessman.
This is his first term as an MP. In the 2026 election he was elected with 62,010 votes, 6,890 more than the nearest rival (according to the Election Commission's result sheet). He chairs the Standing Committee on Ministry of Religious Affairs.
This introduction is put together from the information on this page: Parliament's list of members and the published election result. It contains no assessment of our own.
Rafiqul Islam Jamal’s biography is available in Bangla. Read the biography in Bangla
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, 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
All results for the seat →- Rafiqul Islam JamalBNPWinner62,01048.1%
- Faizul Haq
Jamaat-e-Islami55,12042.7% - Ibrahim
Islami Andolan7,7446.0% - Md Rubel HowladerJatiya Party (JP)2,5622.0%
- M Moin Alam FiroziIndependent5930.5%
- Md Sabbir AhmedIndependent3450.3%
- Md Kamruzzaman KhanJatiya Party (Ershad)3210.2%
- Md Shahadat Hossain
Gono Odhikar Parishad1320.1% - Md Sohrab HossainJSD1100.1%
- Md Jasim Uddin TalukdarJanotar Dol630.0%
Parliament Secretariat notifications(1)
Seat: Jhalokathi-1
Seat page →Parliamentary committees(1)
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