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Zahir uddin Swapon

Zahir uddin Swapon

জহির উদ্দিন স্বপন

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)Barishal-1Barishal district
Current member, 13th ParliamentPolitical AdviserElected 3 times

Government posts last checked: 24 October 2026, Cabinet

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Zahir uddin Swapon is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party member of the 13th Parliament elected from Barishal-1. This page gives his profile and contact details.

He was born on 29 June 1960 in Sarikal village, Gouranadi, Barishal.

He has been elected an MP 3 times in all, this term included. In the 2026 election he was elected with 100,552 votes, 54,289 more than the nearest rival (according to The Business Standard's count). He chairs the Standing Committee on Ministry of Planning.

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.

Zahir uddin Swapon’s biography is available in Bangla. Read the biography in Bangla

Born29 June 1960 (aged 66)
BirthplaceSarikal village, Gouranadi, Barishal*
GenderMale
EducationSt. Joseph's High School, Khulna (secondary, 1975)Government Brajalal CollegeUniversity of Dhaka (master's in Political Science)
Current term17 February 2026 to 16 February 2031
Elected an MP3 times

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Constituency

Barishal-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, 2026Barishal-1Current termBNP

According to the Parliament Secretariat, he has been elected an MP 3 times in all; details of the 2 earlier terms 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

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13th Parliament, 2026Candidates' total: 199,585 votes
  1. Zahir uddin SwaponBNPWinner100,55250.4%
  2. Md Kamrul Islam KhanJamaat-e-Islami46,26323.2%
  3. Abdus SobhanIndependent44,18822.1%
  4. Md Rasel SardarIslami Andolan6,8463.4%
  5. Cherniabat Sekandar AliJatiya Party (Ershad)1,7360.9%
Source: The Business Standard. Not checked against the Election Commission's gazette.Original page

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Seat: Barishal-1

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Area

(a) Gouranadi and (b) Agailjhara upazilas

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