Rupandehi 5 (constituency)

Rupandehi 5 one of three parliamentary constituencies of Rupandehi District in Nepal. This constituency came into existence on the Constituency Delimitation Commission (CDC) report submitted on 31 August 2017.[1]

Rupandehi 5
Parliamentary Constituency
Rupanedhi 5 in Lumbini Province
ProvinceLumbini Province
DistrictRupandehi District
Current constituency
Created1991
PartyNepali Congress
Member of ParliamentBharat Kumar Shah

Incorporated areas

Rupandehi 5 incorporates Gaidhawa Rural Municipality, wards 5–11 of Sainamaina Municipality, wards 6–9 of Sudhdhodhan Rural Municipality, ward 1 of Mayadevi Rural Municipality and wards 1 and 3–11 of Lumbini Sanskritik Municipality.

Assembly segments

It encompasses the following Lumbini Provincial Assembly segment

  • Rupandehi 5(A)
  • Rupandehi 5(B)

Members of Parliament

Parliament/Constituent Assembly
Election Member Party
1991 Shyam Sundar Gupta Nepal Sadbhawana Party
1994 Sarvendra Nath Shukla Rastriya Prajatantra Party
1999 Yaggya Jeet Shah Nepal Sadbhawana Party
2008 Ram Nath Dhakal CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
2013 Bharat Kumar Shah Nepali Congress

Provincial Assembly

Election results

2017 legislative elections
Party Candidate Votes
Nepali Congress Bharat Kumar Shah 33,088
CPN (Maoist Centre) Dila Ram Acharya 20,438
Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal Mohammad Wakil Musalman 14,121
CPN (Marxist–Leninist) Krishna Upadhyaya 1,879
Rastriya Janamukti Party Bhaira Bahadur Thapa Magar 1,657
Rastriya Janata Party Nepal Rajendra Gupta 1,337
Others 1,739
Invalid votes 5,237
Result Congress hold
Source: Election Commission

2017 Nepalese provincial elections

2013 Constituent Assembly election
Party Candidate Votes
Nepali Congress Bharat Kumar Shah 14,274
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Ram Nath Dhakal 13,766
UCPN (Maoist) Dadhiram Neupane 4,622
Rastriya Janamukti Party Bam Bahadur Darlami Magar 2,393
Madheshi Janaadhikar Forum, Nepal (Democratic) Mohan Lal Yadav 2,271
Others 3,382
Result Congress gain
Source: NepalNews[2]

2008 Constituent Assembly election
Party Candidate Votes
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Ram Nath Dhakal 11,080
CPN (Maoist) Basanta Kumar Shrestha 10,785
Nepali Congress Bharat Kumar Shah 8,920
Madheshi Janaadhikar Forum, Nepal Mohan Lal Yadav 4,443
Nepal Sadbhavana Party (Anandidevi) Rangi Lal Lodh 2,610
Rastriya Janamukti Party Bhaira Bahadur Thapa 2,571
Sadbhawana Party Gajendra Gupta 1,356
Others 2,885
Invalid votes 2,144
Result CPN (UML) gain
Source: Election Commission[3]

1999 legislative elections
Party Candidate Votes
Nepal Sadbhawana Party Yaggya Jeet Shah 19,203
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Sarvendra Nath Shukla 14,476
Nepali Congress Vashistha Mani Tripathi 9,016
Others 1,598
Invalid votes 1,151
Result NSP gain
Source: Election Commission[4][5]

1994 legislative elections
Party Candidate Votes
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Sarvendra Nath Shukla 13,919
Independent Yaggya Jeet Shah 11,712
Nepal Sadbhawana Party Shyam Sundar Gupta 6,694
Nepali Congress Shaligram Upadhyaya 3,699
Others 1,752
Result RPP gain
Source: Election Commission[4]

1991 legislative elections
Party Candidate Votes
Nepal Sadbhawana Party Shyam Sundar Gupta 12,282
Nepali Congress Yaggya Jeet Shah 7,957
Result NSP gain
Source:

See also

References
  1. "CDC submits its report with 165 electoral constituencies". Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  2. "Nepalnews.com – News from Nepal as it happens". 2015-03-25. Archived from the original on 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
  3. "Ca Election report". 2009-10-03. Archived from the original on 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  4. "Finalised Constituencies With Top Two Candidates". 2008-01-24. Archived from the original on 2008-01-24. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  5. "Election Results'99". nepalresearch.org. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
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