Smriti Narayan Chaudhary

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{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix = Honourable

| name = Smriti Narayan Chaudhary

| native_name = स्मृति नारायण चौधरी

| image =MP_Smriti_Narayan_Chaudhary.jpg

| office = Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha for
Nepali Congress party list

| term_start = 4 March 2018

| term_end =

| office1 = Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha

| term_start1 = May 1999

| term_end1 = May 2002

| constituency1 = Dhanusha 1

| predecessor1 = Ram Chandra Jha

| successor1 = Ram Chandra Jha

| party = Nepali Congress

| nationality = Nepali

| caption =

| birth_place = Janakpur, Dhanusha District

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1950|7|27}}{{Cite book |url=https://hr.parliament.gov.np/uploads/attachments/z3qljvte6vwen2cy.pdf |title=संघीय संसद सदस्य, २०७४ परिचयात्मक पुस्तिका |publisher=Federal Parliament Secretariat |year=2021 |location=Nepal |pages=270 |language=ne |trans-title=Federal Parliament Members 2017 Introduction Booklet}}

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Smriti Narayan Chaudhary is a Nepalese politician and a member of the Provincial Assembly of Province No. 2.Gellner, David, and Krishna Hachhethu. Local Democracy in South Asia: Microprocesses of Democratization in Nepal and its Neighbours, SAGE Publications India, 2008, p. 63. {{ISBN|8132100166}} He was elected to the Pratinidhi Sabha in the 1999 election as a candidate of the Nepali Congress under the first-past-the-post voting system. He was later elected to the Pratinidhi Sabha from the proportional representation list of the party. He is a leader close to the NC Vice-president and former deputy prime minister Bimalendra Nidhi.{{Cite web|last=रातोपाटी|title=एक हप्ताभित्र काँग्रेसको दोस्रो सत्तारोहण : मन्त्री छनोटमा निधि हावी, पौडेल पक्ष रित्तै !|url=https://ratopati.com/story/184605/2021/6/9/nepali-congress-province-2|access-date=2021-07-14|website=RatoPati|language=Nepali}} Chaudhary and Nidhi both come from the same district and municipality.

Electoral history

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

class="wikitable"

! colspan="4" |Dhanusha-1

colspan="2" |Party

!Candidate

!Votes

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

|Nepali Congress

|Smriti Narayan Chaudhary

|20,095

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

|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)

|Ram Chandra Jha

|18,352

style="background-color:indianred" |

|CPN (Marxist–Leninist)

|Ratneshwor Goit

|7,228

style="background-color:gold" |

|Rastriya Prajatantra Party

|Guru Sharan Rohita

|1,035

| colspan="2" |Others

|1,377

colspan="3" |Invalid Votes

|1,457

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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080124110554/http://www.election-commission.org.np/toptwo.php|archive-date=2008-01-24|access-date=2020-11-15}}{{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}}

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