Kathmandu 9

Kathmandu 9
Parliamentary Constituency for the House of Representatives
Kathmandu 9 within Kathmandu District
Assembly segment Kathmandu 9(A) (red) and Kathmandu 9(B) (blue) within Kathmandu District
Province	Bagmati Province
District	Kathmandu District
Electorate	67,651
Current constituency
Created	2008
Party	Nepal Communist Party
Member of Parliament	Krishna Gopal Shrestha

Kathmandu 9 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 9 parliamentary constituency consists of wards 12, 14, 21 and 22 of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, wards 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 of Nagarjun Municipality and wards 1, 12, 13, 14 and 15 of Chandragiri Municipality.

Assembly segments

It encompasses the following Bagmati Pradesh Provincial Assembly segment

• Kathmandu 9(A)
• Kathmandu 9(B)

Members of Parliament

Parliament/Constituent Assembly

Election		Member	Party
	2008	Dhyan Govinda Ranjit	Nepali Congress
	2017	Krishna Gopal Shrestha	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
	May 2018		Nepal Communist Party

Provincial Assembly

9(A) Election Member Party 2017 Ajaya Kranti Shakya CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) May 2018 Nepal Communist Party

9(B) Election Member Party 2017 Keshav Prasad Pokharel CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) May 2018 Nepal Communist Party

Election results

Election in the 2010s

2017 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Krishna Gopal Shrestha	22,852
	Nepali Congress	Dhyan Govinda Ranjit	14,802
	Bibeksheel Sajha Party	Milan Pandey	4,946
	Others		2,475
Invalid votes			1,154
Result		CPN (UML) gain
Source: Election Commission

2017 Nepalese provincial elections

Kathmandu 9(A) Party Candidate Votes CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Ajaya Kranti Shakya 9,531 Nepali Congress Indraman Tuladhar 7,193 Bibeksheel Sajha Party Chakrapani Neupane 3,369 Others 1,494 Invalid votes 498 Result CPN (UML) gain Source: Election Commission

Kathmandu 9(B) Party Candidate Votes CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Keshav Prasad Pokharel 12,156 Nepali Congress Dharma Raj Gautam 9,110 Bibeksheel Sajha Party Surendra Bahadur Ranabhaat 1,384 Others 1,034 Invalid votes 452 Result CPN (UML) gain Source: Election Commission

2013 Constituent Assembly election

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Dhyan Govinda Ranjit	14,483
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Krishna Gopal Shrestha	13,100
	UCPN (Maoist)	Devendra Paudel	6,669
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal	Devendra Pradhan	4,490
	Federal Socialist Party, Nepal	Radha Krishna Maharjan	1,547
	Others		3,417
Result		Congress hold
Source: Election Commission [2]

Election in the 2000s

2008 Constituent Assembly election

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Dhyan Govinda Ranjit	12,501
	UCPN (Maoist)	Maila Lama Tamang	12,292
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Krishna Gopal Shrestha	12,194
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	Badri Raj Giri	1,110
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal	Rukmani Basnet	1,083
	Others		2,428
Invalid votes			1,787
Result		Congress gain
Source: Election Commission

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies of Nepal

References

1. "CDC submits its report with 165 electoral constituencies" . Retrieved 2018-04-25.
2. "Nepalnews.com - News from Nepal as it happens". web.archive.org. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2020-11-23.

External links

• Constituency map of Kathmandu