Kathmandu 1 (constituency) explained

Kathmandu 1
Type:Parliamentary
Parl Name:House of Representatives
Map Size:300
Map Year:1991
District Label:Province
District:Bagmati Province
Region Label:District
Region:Kathmandu District
Electorate:42,430
Year:2017

Kathmandu 1 is one of 10 parliamentary constituencies of Kathmandu District in Nepal. This constituency came into existence on the Constituency Delimitation Commission (CDC) report submitted on 31 August 2017.[1]

Incorporated areas

Kathmandu 1 parliamentary constituency consist area of ward number 10, 11, 29 and 31 of Kathmandu Metropolitan City.

Assembly segments

It encompasses the following Bagmati Province Provincial Assembly segment

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1991Madan BhandariCPN (UML)
1994 by-electionBidya Devi Bhandari
1994Man Mohan Adhikari
1997 by-electionNarayan Prasad Dhakal
1999Pradip Nepal
2008Prakash Man SinghNepali Congress

1(B)

ElectionMemberParty
2017Ganesh Prasad DulalCPN (UML)
May 2018Nepal Communist Party
March 2021CPN (UML)
2022Suraj Chandra LamichhaneNepali Congress

Election results

Election in the 2020s

2022 provincial elections

Kathmandu 1(B)

Election in the 2010s

2017 general election

Kathmandu 1(B)

Election in the 1990s

1997 by-election

PartyCandidateVotes
CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)Narayan Prasad Dhakal
ResultCPN (UML) hold
Source: Election Commission[2]

1994 legislative election

PartyCandidateVotes
CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)Man Mohan Adhikari25,672
Nepali CongressHari Bol Bhattarai13,684
Rastriya Prajatantra PartyNawa Raj Sinkhada5,936
Others1,505
ResultCPN (UML) hold
Source: Election Commission

1994 by-election

PartyCandidate
CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)Bidya Devi Bhandari
Nepali CongressKrishna Prasad Bhattarai
ResultCPN (UML) hold

1991 legislative election

PartyCandidateVotes[3]
CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)Madan Bhandari27,372
Nepali CongressKrishna Prasad Bhattarai26,621
ResultCPN (UML) gain

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: CDC submits its report with 165 electoral constituencies. 2018-04-25. en.
  2. Web site: 1997-02-28. प्रतिनिधिसभाको सदस्य निर्वाचित भएको. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20200117121955/http://rajpatra.dop.gov.np/welcome/book/?ref=17874. 2020-01-17. 2020-11-24. Department of Printing Rajpatra.
  3. Web site: COMMUNIST WINS IN NEPAL. 2020-11-18. Greensboro News and Record. en.