Gorkha 1

Gorkha 1
Parliamentary Constituency
Province	Gandaki Province
District	Gorkha District
Current constituency
Created	1991
Party	Nepal Communist Party
Member of Parliament	Hari Raj Adhikari

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

Incorporated areas

Gorkha 1 incorporates the entirety of Gorkha District.

Assembly segments

It encompasses the following Gandaki Provincial Assembly segment

• Gorkha 1(A)
• Gorkha 1(B)

Members of Parliament

Parliament/Constituent Assembly

Election		Member	Party
	1991	Chiranjibi Wagle	Nepali Congress
	2008	Parbati Thapa Shrestha	CPN (Maoist)
	January 2009		UCPN (Maoist)
	2013	Dr. Baburam Bhattarai
	September 2015	Vacant [2]
	2017	Hari Raj Adhikari	CPN (Maoist Centre)
	May 2018		Nepal Communist Party

Provincial Assembly

1(A) Election Member Party 2017 Lekh Bahadur Thapa Magar CPN (Maoist Centre) May 2018 Nepal Communist Party

1(B) Election Member Party 2017 Ram Sharan Basnet CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) May 2018 Nepal Communist Party

Election results

Election in the 2010s

2017 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Maoist Centre)	Hari Raj Adhikari	29,860
	Nepali Congress	Chinkaji Shrestha	26,643
	CPN (Marxist–Leninist)	Narayan Babu Acharya	1,639
	Others		1,242
Invalid votes			4,320
Result		Maoist Centre hold
Source: Election Commission

2017 Nepalese provincial elections

1(A) Party Candidate Votes Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) Lekh Bahadur Thapa Magar 16,558 Nepali Congress Dhiran Thapa 14,019 Others 548 Invalid votes 1,359 Result Maoist Centre gain Source: Election Commission

1(B) Party Candidate Votes CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Ram Sharan Basnet 16,656 Nepali Congress Rajendra Bajgain 13,001 Mongol National Organisation Prasad Gurung 138 Invalid votes 1,256 Result CPN (UML) gain Source: Election Commission

2013 Constituent Assembly election

Party		Candidate	Votes
	UCPN (Maoist)	Dr. Baburam Bhattarai	22,824
	Nepali Congress	Kiran Babu Shrestha	8,971
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Ram Sharan Basnet	4,944
	CPN (Marxist–Leninist)	Narayan Babu Acharya	1,557
	Others		866
Result		Maoist hold
Source: NepalNews [3]

Election in the 2000s

2008 Constituent Assembly election

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Maoist)	Parbati Thapa Shrestha	40,606
	Nepali Congress	Chiranjibi Wagle	9,142
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Baburam Thapa	4,339
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	Rudra Raj Pandey	1,436
	Others		940
Invalid votes			1,832
Result		Maoist gain
Source: Election Commission [4]

Election in the 1990s

1999 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Chiranjibi Wagle	17,305
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Ram Sharan Basnet	13,438
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	Narayan Malla	5,641
	CPN (Marxist–Leninist)	Surendra Bahadur Thapa	2,580
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Chand)	Rajeshwar Devkota	1,733
	Rastriya Janamukti Party	Bhaikaji Rana	1,128
	Others		290
Invalid Votes			1,478
Result		Congress hold
Source: Election Commission [5] [6]

1994 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Chiranjibi Wagle	13,223
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	Narayan Malla	11,236
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Rishi Ram Sharma	4,426
	Independent	Chet Bahadur Rana	1,820
	Others		1,420
Result		Congress hold
Source: Election Commission [5]

1991 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Chiranjibi Wagle	15,496
	Samyukta Jana Morcha Nepal		12,986
Result		Congress gain
Source:

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies of Nepal

References

1. "CDC submits its report with 165 electoral constituencies" . Retrieved 2018-04-25.
2. "Baburam Bhattarai severs ties with UCPN-Maoist, resigns from Parliament also, to remain as independent citizen for now". The Himalayan Times. 2015-09-26. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
3. "Nepalnews.com - News from Nepal as it happens". web.archive.org. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
4. "Ca Election report". web.archive.org. 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
5. "Finalised Constituencies With Top Two Candidates". web.archive.org. 2008-01-24. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
6. "Election Results'99". nepalresearch.org. Retrieved 2020-11-15.

External links

• Constituency map of Gorkha