Zainul Abdin Farroque
জয়নুল আবদিন ফারুক
Government posts last checked: 24 October 2026, Cabinet
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Zainul Abdin Farroque is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party member of the 13th Parliament elected from Noakhali-2. This page gives his profile and contact details.
Zainul Abdin Farroque is the member of parliament for Noakhali-2 (Senbagh upazila and four unions of Sonaimuri upazila) in the 13th Parliament. Elected from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), this freedom fighter has come to Parliament for the sixth time. In Parliament he is a member of the Standing Committee on Privileges.
Zainul Abdin Farroque was born on 10 December 1949 in Noakhali district. He is the son of Abdul Haque and Hafeza Khatun. In 1971 he took part in the Liberation War.
Long active in BNP politics, Farroque was elected a member of parliament from Noakhali in the 5th parliamentary election in 1991, the 6th in February 1996, the 7th in June 1996, the 8th in 2001 and the 9th in 2008. In the 9th Parliament, in 2009, he was made Chief Whip of the opposition. He has also served as an adviser to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.
In the 13th parliamentary election held on 12 February 2026, he was elected a member of parliament for the sixth time, winning 83,982 votes in Noakhali-2 with the sheaf of paddy symbol. His late wife, Kaniz Fatema, was also involved in BNP politics. The couple have a daughter.
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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)BNPBangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)BNPAccording to the Parliament Secretariat, he has been elected an MP 6 times in all; details of 1 of the 5 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
All results for the seat →- Zainul Abdin FarroqueBNPWinner83,98238.9%
- Sultan Muhammad Zakaria Mazumder
NCP67,05431.0% - Kazi Mohammad Mofizur RahmanIndependent44,71220.7%
- Khalilur Rahman
Islami Andolan19,2898.9% - Md. Shahadat HossainJatiya Party (Ershad)1,0750.5%
Parliament Secretariat notifications(2)
Seat: Noakhali-2
Seat page →The Election Commission’s description of this seat’s area is available in Bangla. Read it in Bangla
Parliamentary committees(2)
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