Pyuthan 1

Pyuthan 1
Parliamentary Constituency
Province	Lumbini Province
District	Pyuthan District
Current constituency
Created	1991
Party	Rastriya Janamorcha
Member of Parliament	Durga Paudel

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

Incorporated areas

Pyuthan 1 incorporates the entirety of Pyuthan District.

Assembly segments

It encompasses the following Lumbini Provincial Assembly segment

• Pyuthan 1(A)
• Pyuthan 1(B)

Members of Parliament

Parliament/Constituent Assembly

Election		Member	Party
	1991	Shiva Raj Subedi	Nepali Congress
	1999	Hari Acharya	Rastriya Janamorcha
	2008	Narayan Prasad Adhikari	CPN (Maoist)
	January 2009		UCPN (Maoist)
	2013	Bam Dev Gautam	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
	2017	Durga Paudel	Rastriya Janamorcha

Provincial Assembly

1(A) Election Member Party 2017 Hari Prasad Rijal CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) May 2018 Nepal Communist Party

1(B) Election Member Party 2017 Krishna Dhoj Khadka CPN (Maoist Centre) May 2018 Nepal Communist Party

Election results

Election in the 2010s

2017 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Rastriya Janamorcha	Durga Paudel	47,514
	Nepali Congress	Dr. Govinda Raj Pokharel	31,286
	CPN (Marxist–Leninist)	Madhav Singh K.C.	2,565
	Others		1,281
Result		Janamorcha gain
Source: Election Commission

2017 Nepalese provincial elections

1(A) Party Candidate Votes CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Hari Prasad Rijal 24,734 Nepali Congress Tek Prasad Bhandari 12,639 CPN (Marxist–Leninist) Tek Prasad Bhandari 1,064 Patriotic People's Democratic Front Nepal Dhaneshwar Pokharel 307 Result CPN (UML) gain Source: Election Commission

1(B) Party Candidate Votes CPN (Maoist Centre) Krishna Dhoj Khadka 27,910 Nepali Congress Amar Prasad Bhandari 14,138 CPN (Marxist–Leninist) Hari Singh Budhathoki Magar 1,971 Others 745 Result Maoist Centre gain Source: Election Commission

2013 Constituent Assembly election

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Bam Dev Gautam	13,962
	Rastriya Janamorcha	Kishna Bahadur Khadka	8,724
	UCPN (Maoist)	Navaraj Subedi	7,054
	Nepali Congress	Hukum Bahadur Bista	5,215
	CPN (Marxist–Leninist)	Yam Bahadur Gurung	1,017
	Others		626
Result		CPN (UML) gain
Source: NepalNews [2]

Election in the 2000s

2008 Constituent Assembly election

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Maoist)	Narayan Prasad Adhikari	13,096
	Rastriya Janamorcha	Hari Acharya	11,345
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Dhan Bahadur Rayamajhi	9,349
	Nepali Congress	Diwakar Gautam	4,925
	CPN (Marxist–Leninist)	Ravi Lal Roka Magar	1,869
	Others		2,567
Invalid votes			1,665
Result		Maoist gain
Source: Election Commission [3]

Election in the 1990s

1999 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Rastriya Janamorcha	Hari Acharya	14,890
	CPN (Marxist–Leninist)	Chakra Bahadur Roka Magar	6,194
	Nepali Congress	Diwakar Gautam	5,806
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	Netra Bahadur Rokaya	4,944
	Others		695
Invalid votes			770
Result		Janamorcha gain
Source: Election Commission [4] [5]

1994 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Shiva Raj Subedi	9,403
	Independent	Keshar Bahadur Gurung	9,143
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	Tanka Bahadur Bista	7,855
	Others		1,137
Result		Congress hold
Source: Election Commission [4]

1991 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Shiva Raj Subedi	6,536
	Samyukta Janamorcha Nepal		4,628
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. "Nepalnews.com - News from Nepal as it happens". web.archive.org. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
3. "Ca Election report". web.archive.org. 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
4. "Finalised Constituencies With Top Two Candidates". web.archive.org. 2008-01-24. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
5. "Election Results'99". nepalresearch.org. Retrieved 2020-11-15.

External links

• Constituency map of Pyuthan