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2005 Chattogram City Corporation election

mayoral election in Bangladesh

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ96368999 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2005 election for mayor of Chattogram City Corporation was held on 12 May 2005.The result was a victory again for the Bangladesh Awami League candidate A B M Mohiuddin Chowdhury. He beat Mir Mohammed Nasiruddin, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party's candidate and previous mayor who was appointed to his post.

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The public source identifies “2005 Chattogram City Corporation election” as mayoral election in Bangladesh. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chattogram, City and Corporation.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Chattogram, City and Corporation providing the first useful test.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q96368999. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “2005 Chattogram City Corporation election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.