Zainul Abedin
জয়নুল আবেদীন
Government posts last checked: 24 October 2026, Cabinet
Profile
Zainul Abedin is a member of the 13th Parliament elected from Barishal-3 and Vice-Chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
He was born on 27 July 1953 in Purba Hosnabad, Muladi, Barishal. By profession he is a lawyer. He studied at University of Dhaka.
This is his first term as an MP. In the 2026 election he was elected with 80,932 votes, 19,740 more than the nearest rival (according to the Election Commission's result sheet). He chairs the Special Committee and the Standing Committee on Ministry of Home Affairs and is a member of 1 other parliamentary committee.
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.
Zainul Abedin’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 →- Zainul AbedinBNPWinner80,93246.6%
- Md Asaduzzaman BhuiyaAB Party61,19235.2%
- Md Sirajul Islam
Islami Andolan16,3259.4% - Golam Kibria TipuJatiya Party (Ershad)14,1848.2%
- Yamin HM Fardin
Gono Odhikar Parishad8600.5% - Md Azmul Hasan JihadBasad2140.1%
Parliament Secretariat notifications(2)
Seat: Barishal-3
Seat page →Parliamentary committees(3)
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