Rupandehi 3 (constituency)

{{short description|Parliamentary constituency in Lumbini Province, Nepal}}

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Rupandehi 3 is one of three parliamentary constituencies of the Rupandehi District in Nepal. This constituency came into existence from the Constituency Delimitation Commission(CDC) report submitted on 31 August 2017.{{Cite news|title=CDC submits its report with 165 electoral constituencies|language=en|url=http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2017-08-31/cdc-submits-its-report-with-165-electoral-constituencies.html|access-date=2018-04-25}}

Incorporated areas

Rupandehi 3 incorporates Sudhdhodhan Rural Municipality, Sidhhartanagar Municipality, wards 1 to 3, 6 and 7 of Sivari Rural Municipality, ward 2 of Omasatiya Rural Municipality, wards 7 and 8 of Mayadevi Rural Municipality, wards 13 and 14 of Tilottama Municipality and wards 14 to 19 of Butwal Sub-metropolitan City.

Assembly segments

It encompasses the following Lumbini Provincial Assembly segments.

  • Rupandehi 3(A)
  • Rupandehi 3(B)

Members of Parliament

= [[Federal Parliament of Nepal|Parliament/Constituent Assembly]] =

class="wikitable"

! colspan="2" |Election

!Member

!Party

style="background-color:{{party color|Nepali Congress}}" |

|1991

|Bal Krishna Khand

|Nepali Congress

style="background-color:{{party color|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)}}" |

|1994

|Mod Nath Prasrit

|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)

rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{party color|Nepali Congress}}" |

|1999

|Surya Prasad Pradhan

| rowspan="2" |Nepali Congress

2008

|Bal Krishna Khand

rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{party color|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)}}" |

|2017

| rowspan="3" |Ghanashyam Bhusal

|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)

May 2018

|Nepal Communist Party

|March 2021

|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)

|2022

|Deepak Bohara

|Rastriya Prajatantra Party

= [[Provincial Assembly (Nepal)|Provincial Assembly]] =

{{col-begin}}

{{col-2}}

== 3(A) ==

class="wikitable"

! colspan="2" |Election

!Member

!Party

rowspan="3" style="background-color:pink" |

|2017

| rowspan="3" |Santosh Kumar Pandey

|Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal

May 2019

|Samajbadi Party, Nepal

April 2020

|People's Socialist Party, Nepal

{{col-2}}

== 3(B) ==

class="wikitable"

! colspan="2" |Election

!Member

!Party

rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{party color|Nepal Communist Party}}" |

|2017

| rowspan="2" |Tulsi Prasad Chaudhary

|CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)

May 2018

|Nepal Communist Party

{{col-end}}

Election results

= Election in the 2020s =

== 2022 general election ==

{{Election results|cand1=Deepak Bohara|party1=Rastriya Prajatantra Party|votes1=36717|cand2=Bal Krishna Khand|party2=Nepali Congress|votes2=34036|cand3=Jeet Bahadur Gupta Teli|party3=Rastriya Swatantra Party|votes3=5796|cand4=Tulsi Prasad Tharu|party4=Nagrik Unmukti Party|votes4=4751|cand5=Pramod Kumar Raut|party5=Janamat Party|votes5=3317|cand6=Prakhyat Banjade|party6=Hamro Nepali Party|votes6=1384|cand7=Keshav Bikram Khadka|party7=Independent|votes7=1056|cand8=Others|votes8=1155|invalid=|electorate=|result=Rastriya Prajatantra Party|majority=2681|source={{Cite web |title=प्रतिनिधि सभा सदस्य निर्वाचनमा उम्मेदवारहरुको सुची|url=https://result.election.gov.np/ElectionResultCentral2079.aspx |website=Election Commission of Nepal}}}}

= Election in the 2010s =

== [[2017 Nepalese legislative election|2017 legislative elections]] ==

class="wikitable"

! colspan="2" |Party

!Candidate

!Votes

style="background-color:{{party color|Nepal Communist Party}}" |

|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)

|Ghanshyam Bhusal

|32,866

style="background-color:steelblue" |

|Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Democratic)

|Deepak Bohora

|27,422

style="background-color:pink" |

|Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal

|Mahendra Yadav

|12,536

style="background-color:dodgerblue" |

|Rastriya Janamukti Party

|Surya Kumar Saru Magar

|2,409

style="background-color:royalblue" |

|Unified Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Nationalist)

|Kamal Prasad Sharma Upadhyaya

|1,856

| colspan="2" |Others

|2,894

colspan="3" |Invalid votes

|4,063

colspan="2" |Result

! colspan="2" |CPN (UML) gain

colspan="4" |Source: [https://result.election.gov.np/ElectionResultCentral.aspx Election Commission]

== [[2017 Nepalese provincial elections]] ==

{{col-begin}}

{{col-2}}

=== 3(A) ===

class="wikitable"

! colspan="2" |Party

!Candidate

!Votes

style="background-color:pink" |

|Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal

|Santosh Kumar Pandey

|11,477

style="background-color:{{party color|Nepali Congress}}" |

|Nepali Congress

|Devi Prasad Chaudhary

|10,328

style="background-color:{{party color|Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)}}" |

|CPN (Maoist Centre)

|Bishwas Baral

|9,837

style="background-color:{{party color|Independent}}" |

|Independent

|Om Kumar Shrestha

|2,394

style="background-color:dodgerblue" |

|Rastriya Janamukti Party

|Rekha Prasad Chaudhary

|1,795

style="background-color:midnightblue" |

|Bibeksheel Sajha Party

|Amit Kumar Gupta

|1,133

| colspan="2" |Others

|1,850

colspan="3" |Invalid votes

|1,851

colspan="2" |Result

! colspan="2" |CPN (UML) gain

colspan="4" |Source: [https://result.election.gov.np/ElectionResultCentral.aspx Election Commission]

{{col-2}}

=== 3(B) ===

class="wikitable"

! colspan="2" |Party

!Candidate

!Votes

style="background-color:{{party color|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)}}" |

|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)

|Tulsi Prasad Chaudhary

|18,615

style="background-color:{{party color|Nepali Congress}}" |

|Nepali Congress

|Hari Dhoj Malla

|16,793

style="background-color:pink" |

|Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal

|Ashook Kumar Verma

|3,577

style="background-color:dodgerblue" |

|Rastriya Janamukti Party

|Chiktra Prasad Gurung

|1,058

| colspan="2" |Others

|1,754

colspan="3" |Invalid votes

|1,700

colspan="2" |Result

! colspan="2" |CPN (UML) gain

colspan="4" |Source: [https://result.election.gov.np/ElectionResultCentral.aspx Election Commission]

{{col-end}}

== [[2013 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election|2013 Constituent Assembly election]] ==

class="wikitable"

! colspan="2" |Party

!Candidate

!Votes

style="background-color:{{party color|Nepali Congress}}" |

|Nepali Congress

|Bal Krishna Khand

|18,481

style="background-color:{{party color|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)}}" |

|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)

|Ghanshyam Bhusal

|18,395

style="background-color:dodgerblue" |

|Rastriya Janamukti Party

|Jham Bahadur Gurung

|4,620

style="background-color:darkred" |

|UCPN (Maoist)

|Bharat Aryal

|3,897

style="background-color:darkorange" |

|Madheshi Janaadhikar Forum, Nepal (Democratic)

|Sant Prasad Chaudhary

|1,891

style="background-color:orangered" |

|Madheshi Janaadhikar Forum, Nepal

|Ram Avatar Yadav

|1,063

| colspan="2" |Others

|2,225

colspan="2" |Result

! colspan="2" |Congress hold

colspan="4" |Source: NepalNews{{Cite web|date=2015-03-25|title=Nepalnews.com – News from Nepal as it happens|url=http://vote.nepalnews.com/election/pages/bhaktapur.php#top|access-date=2020-11-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150325225411/http://vote.nepalnews.com/election/pages/bhaktapur.php#top|archive-date=2015-03-25}}

= Election in the 2000s =

== [[2008 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election|2008 Constituent Assembly election]] ==

class="wikitable"

! colspan="2" |Party

!Candidate

!Votes

style="background-color:{{party color|Nepali Congress}}" |

|Nepali Congress

|Bal Krishna Khand

|16,790

style="background-color:{{party color|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)}}" |

|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)

|Lila Giri

|15,458

style="background-color:darkred" |

|CPN (Maoist)

|Tej Kumari Paudel

|11,554

style="background-color:olivedrab" |

|Terai Madhesh Loktantrik Party

|Shiva Kumar Tharu Chaudhary

|1,645

style="background-color:{{party color|Independent}}" |

|Independent

|Yam Bahadur Pun

|1,336

|Others

|

|5,017

colspan="3" |Invalid votes

|2,035

colspan="2" |Result

! colspan="2" |Congress hold

colspan="4" |Source: Election Commission{{Cite web|date=2009-10-03|title=Ca Election report|url=http://www.election.gov.np/reports/CAResults/reportBody.php|access-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003184536/http://www.election.gov.np/reports/CAResults/reportBody.php|archive-date=2009-10-03}}

= Election in the 1990s =

== [[1999 Nepalese legislative election|1999 legislative elections]] ==

class="wikitable"

! colspan="2" |Party

!Candidate

!Votes

style="background-color:{{party color|Nepali Congress}}" |

|Nepali Congress

|Surya Prasad Pradhan

|23,697

style="background-color:{{party color|Nepal Communist Party}}" |

|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)

|Bishnu Prasad Paudel

|23,033

style="background-color:dodgerblue" |

|Rastriya Janamukti Party

|Jasmaya Gurung

|2,289

style="background-color:yellowgreen" |

|Nepal Sadbhawana Party

|Ram Kewal Yadav

|2,120

style="background-color:indianred" |

|CPN (Marxist–Leninist)

|Manbir Garbuja Magar

|1,728

| colspan="2" |Others

|2,015

colspan="3" |Invalid votes

|1,268

colspan="2" |Result

! colspan="2" |Congress gain

colspan="4" |Source: Election Commission{{Cite web|date=2008-01-24|title=Finalised Constituencies With Top Two Candidates|url=http://www.election-commission.org.np/toptwo.php|access-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080124110554/http://www.election-commission.org.np/toptwo.php|archive-date=2008-01-24}}{{Cite web|title=Election Results'99|url=https://nepalresearch.org/politics/background/elections_old/ec/alldistconst.htm|access-date=2020-11-15|website=nepalresearch.org}}

== [[1994 Nepalese legislative election|1994 legislative elections]] ==

class="wikitable"

! colspan="2" |Party

!Candidate

!Votes

style="background-color:{{party color|Nepal Communist Party}}" |

|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)

|Mod Nath Prasrit

|19,675

style="background-color:{{party color|Nepali Congress}}" |

|Nepali Congress

|Bal Krishna Khand

|15,349

style="background-color:gold" |

|Rastriya Prajatantra Party

|Pradip Udaya

|5,462

style="background-color:yellowgreen" |

|Nepal Sadbhavana Party

|Ram Kewal Yadav

|2,960

style="background-color:dodgerblue" |

|Rastriya Janamukti Party

|Malabar Singh Thapa

|1,815

| colspan="2" |Others

|689

colspan="2" |Result

! colspan="2" |CPN (UML) gain

colspan="4" |Source: Election Commission

== [[1991 Nepalese legislative election|1991 legislative elections]] ==

class="wikitable"

! colspan="2" |Party

!Candidate

!Votes

style="background-color:{{party color|Nepali Congress}}" |

|Nepali Congress

|Bal Krishna Khand

|16,778

style="background-color:{{party color|Nepal Communist Party}}" |

|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)

|

|14,640

colspan="2" |Result

! colspan="2" |Congress gain

colspan="4" |Source: [http://nepalresearch.org/politics/background/elections_old/election_1991_constituency_results_english.pdf]

See also

References

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