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Tarique Rahman

Tarique Rahman

তারেক রহমান

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)Dhaka-17Dhaka district
Current member, 13th ParliamentPrime MinisterLeader of the House

Government posts last checked: 24 October 2026, Cabinet

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Tarique Rahman is a member of the 13th Parliament elected from Dhaka-17 and Chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

He is currently the Prime Minister and the Leader of the House. He was born on 20 November 1968 in Dhaka, Bangladesh (then East Pakistan). By profession he is a businessman.

This is his first term as an MP. In the 2026 election he was elected with 72,699 votes, 4,399 more than the nearest rival (according to The Business Standard's count). He is a member of 3 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.

Tarique Rahman’s biography is available in Bangla. Read the biography in Bangla

Born20 November 1968 (aged 57)
BirthplaceDhaka, Bangladesh (then East Pakistan)*
GenderMale
EducationBAF Shaheen College, Dhaka (start of schooling)St. Joseph Higher Secondary School (for a short time)Dhaka Residential Model College (SSC)Adamjee Cantonment College (HSC)University of Dhaka: admitted to the Department of Law in the 1985–86 academic session, later moved to the Department of International Relationsleft studies in the second year of the bachelor's course and started a business in the textile and shipping sectors*
ProfessionBusiness*
Current term17 February 2026 to 16 February 2031
Elected an MPOnce

Facts marked * are taken from the member’s Bangla Wikipedia article and English Wikipedia article and have not been checked against the records of Parliament or the Election Commission. If you see a mistake, let us know.

Constituency

Dhaka-17

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, 2026Dhaka-17Current 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: 145,677 votes
  1. Tarique RahmanBNPWinner72,69949.9%
  2. S. M. KhaliduzzamanJamaat-e-Islami68,30046.9%
  3. Mohammad UllahIslami Andolan1,7681.2%
  4. Atiq AhmedJatiya Party (Ershad)1,1680.8%
  5. Tapu RaihanJatiya Party (Ershad)1,0410.7%
  6. Kazi Enayet UllahIndependent1670.1%
  7. Md. Shamim AhmedBangladesh Congress1300.1%
  8. Md. Anisuzzaman KhokonIndependent1110.1%
  9. Kamrul Hasan NasimBJP920.1%
  10. Manzoor HumayunIBB800.1%
  11. S. M. Abul Kalam AzadBNF610.0%
  12. Muhammad Rashedul HaqueBangladesh Labour Party600.0%
Source: The Business Standard. Not checked against the Election Commission's gazette. Wikipedia also gives the same votes for the winner.Original page

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Seat: Dhaka-17

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Area

(a) wards 15, 18, 19 and 20 of Dhaka North City Corporation and (b) Dhaka Cantonment area

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