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Kathmandu 5
Parliamentary constituency
for the House of Representatives
Kathmandu 5 in Bagmati Province
Assembly segment Kathmandu 5(A) (red) and Kathmandu 5(B) (blue) within Kathmandu District
ProvinceBagmati Province
DistrictKathmandu District
Electorate64,550
Current constituency
Created1991
PartyNepal Communist Party
Member of ParliamentIshwor Pokharel

Kathmandu 5 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 5 parliamentary constituency consists of wards 2, 3, 4, 5 of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, wards 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 of Budhanilkantha Municipality and wards 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 of Tokha Municipality

Assembly segments

It encompasses the following Bagmati Pradesh Provincial Assembly segment

  • Kathmandu 5(A)
  • Kathmandu 5(B)

Members of Parliament

Parliament/Constituent Assembly

Election Member Party
rowspan="3" style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)/meta/color" | 1991 Madan Bhandari CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
1992 by-election Krishna Gopal Shrestha
1994 Rajendra Prasad Shrestha
March 1998 CPN (Marxist-Leninist)
style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)/meta/color" | 1999 Mangal Siddhi Manandhar CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
style="background-color:Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" | 2008 Narahari Acharya Nepali Congress
rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)/meta/color" | 2017 Ishwar Pokhrel CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
May 2018 Nepal Communist Party

Provincial Assembly

Election results

Election in the 2010s

2017 legislative elections

Party Candidate Votes
style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)/meta/color" | CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) Ishwar Pokhrel 23,029
style="background-color:Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" | Nepali Congress Prakash Sharan Mahat 13,169
Bibeksheel Sajha Party Ujwal Bahadur Thapa 6,853
Others 1,659
Invalid votes 1,154
Result CPN (UML) gain
Source: Election Commission

2017 Nepalese provincial elections

2013 Constituent Assembly election

Party Candidate Votes
style="background-color:Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" | Nepali Congress Narahari Acharya 15,364
style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)/meta/color" | CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) Ishwar Pokhrel 14,723
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal Raja Ram Shrestha 4,359
style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)/meta/color" | UCPN (Maoist) Mahendra Kumar Shrestha 3,655
style="background-color:Template:Independent/meta/color" | Independent Ujwal Bahadur Thapa 1,163
Others 2,674
Result Congress hold
Source: Election Commission

Election in the 2000s

2008 Constituent Assembly election

Party Candidate Votes
style="background-color:Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" | Nepali Congress Narahari Acharya 13,245
style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)/meta/color" | CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) Ishwar Pokhrel 9,120
style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)/meta/color" | CPN (Maoist) Dipendra Prakash Maharjan 8,089
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal Kamal Thapa 3,925
CPN (Marxist–Leninist) Daman Bahdur Khatri 1,022
Others 2,194
Invalid votes 1,389
Result Congress gain
Source: Election Commission[2]

Election in the 1990s

1999 legislative elections

Party Candidate Votes
style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)/meta/color" | CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) Mangal Sidhhi Manandhar 14,303
CPN (Marxist–Leninist) Rajendra Prasad Shrestha 8,565
style="background-color:Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" | Nepali Congress Mukunda Regmi 8,248
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Gyanu Lama 2,189
Others 1,284
Invalid Votes 1,206
Result CPN (UML) hold
Source: Election Commission[3][4]

1994 legislative elections

Party Candidate Votes
style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)/meta/color" | CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) Rajendra Prasad Shrestha 19,312
style="background-color:Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" | Nepali Congress Shyam Lal Shrestha 6,935
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Purna Ratna Shakya 4,555
Others 1,799
Result CPN (UML) hold
Source: Election Commission[3]

1992 by-elections

Party Candidate Votes
style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)/meta/color" | CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) Krishna Gopal Shrestha 21,253
style="background-color:Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" | Nepali Congress Tiirtha Ram Dangol 15,926
Result CPN (UML) hold
Source: [1]

1991 legislative elections

Party Candidate Votes
style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)/meta/color" | CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) Madan Bhandari 27,475
style="background-color:Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" | Nepali Congress Hari Bol Bhattarai 18,928
Result CPN (UML) gain
Source: [2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "CDC submits its report with 165 electoral constituencies". Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  2. ^ "Ca Election report". 2009-10-03. Archived from the original on 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  3. ^ a b "Finalised Constituencies With Top Two Candidates". 2008-01-24. Archived from the original on 2008-01-24. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  4. ^ "Election Results'99". nepalresearch.org. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
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