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Salahuddin Ahmed

Salahuddin Ahmed

সালাহউদ্দিন আহমদ

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)Cox's Bazar-1Cox's Bazar district
Current member, 13th ParliamentMinister, Ministry of Home AffairsElected 4 times

Government posts last checked: 24 October 2026, Cabinet

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Salahuddin Ahmed (BNP) is the MP for Cox's Bazar-1 and Minister in the Ministry of Home Affairs. This page gives his profile and contact details.

He was born on 30 June 1962 in Sikdarpara, Pekua, Cox's Bazar, East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.

He has been elected an MP 4 times in all, this term included. Parliament's database has these of his earlier terms: 7th Parliament and 8th Parliament (Cox'Sbazar-1). In the 2026 election he was elected with 222,019 votes, 92,291 more than the nearest rival (according to The Business Standard's count). He chairs the Special Committee On Reformation of Constitution and is a member of 4 other parliamentary committees.

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.

Salahuddin Ahmed’s biography is available in Bangla. Read the biography in Bangla

Born30 June 1962 (aged 64)
BirthplaceSikdarpara, Pekua, Cox's Bazar, East Pakistan, now Bangladesh*
GenderMale
EducationShilkhali High School, Pekua (SSC, 1977)Chittagong Government College (HSC, 1979)University of Dhaka (LLB Honours 1984, LLM 1986)
ProfessionLawyer; former government official (BCS Administration)
Current term17 February 2026 to 16 February 2031
Elected an MP4 times

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Constituency

Cox's Bazar-1

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, 2026Cox's Bazar-1Current termBNP
8th Parliament, 2001Cox'Sbazar-1BNP
7th Parliament, 1996Seat not statedBNP

According to the Parliament Secretariat, he has been elected an MP 4 times in all; details of 2 of the 3 earlier terms are given here. 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: 356,275 votes
  1. Salahuddin AhmedBNPWinner222,01962.3%
  2. Abdullah Al FarukhJamaat-e-Islami129,72836.4%
  3. Sarwar Alam KutubiIslami Andolan4,5281.3%
Source: The Business Standard. Not checked against the Election Commission's gazette.Original page

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Seat: Cox's Bazar-1

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Area

(a) Chakaria upazila and (b) Pekua upazila

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