Kathmandu 7 (constituency)

Kathmandu 7
Kathmandu 7
Parliamentary constituency; for the House of Representatives
	Kathmandu 7 in Bagmati Province
	Assembly segment Kathmandu 7(A) (red) and Kathmandu 7(B) (blue) within Kathmandu District
District	Kathmandu
Province	Bagmati Province
Electorate	61,291
Current constituency
Created	1994
Party	Rastriya Swatantra Party
Member of Parliament	Ganesh Parajuli

Kathmandu 7 is one of 10 parliamentary constituencies of Kathmandu District for the House of Representatives. The constituency in the current form was created during the first constituent assembly election in 2008 and has remained unchanged since then. It consists of wards 16, 17, 18 and 25 of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, wards 1, 2 and 3 of Nagarjun Municipality and wards 3, 4 and 5 of Tarakeshwar Municipality. The current parliamentarian from this constituency is Ganesh Parajuli of Rastriya Swatantra Party.

Quick Facts District, Province ...

	Member	Party
1994	Krishna Gopal Shrestha	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
1999	Tirtha Ram Dangol	Nepali Congress
2008	Hisila Yami	CPN (Maoist)
January 2009	Hisila Yami	UCPN (Maoist)
2013	Ram Bir Manandhar	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
May 2018		Nepal Communist Party
March 2021		CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
2022	Ganesh Parajuli	Rastriya Swatantra Party

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Ganesh Parajuli	Rastriya Swatantra Party	8,743	24.25
	Shyam Kumar Ghimire	CPN (UML)	6,800	18.86
	Manushi Yami Bhattarai	CPN (Maoist Centre)	6,063	16.81
	Dhruba Bikram Malla	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	2,863	7.94
	Yadhav Lal Kayastha	Independent	2,782	7.71
	Rajendra Prasad Shrestha	People's Socialist Party, Nepal	2,461	6.82
	Kiran K.C.	Independent	1,570	4.35
	Prabendra Pokharel	Hamro Nepali Party	1,510	4.19
	Ram Bir Manandhar	Independent	1,215	3.37
	Others		2,054	5.70
Total			36,061	100.00

Majority			1,943
	Rastriya Swatantra Party gain
Source: ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Ram Bir Manandhar	18,102	48.38
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	Bikram Bahadur Thapa	10,079	26.94
	Bibeksheel Sajha Party	Anupa Shrestha	5,376	14.37
	Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal	Gyanendra Mohan Shrestha	1,781	4.76
Others			2,077	5.55
Invalid votes			1,261	3.26
Turnout			38,676	67.19
Result		CPN (UML) hold
Source: Election Commission

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Ram Bir Manandhar	13,289
	Nepali Congress	Pramila Devi Singh Dangol	10,486
	UCPN (Maoist)	Hisila Yami	7,015
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal	Shailaja Pandey	4,180
	Nepa Rastriya Party	Bijay Prakash Sainju	1,343
	Federal Socialist Party, Nepal	Shesh Narayan Maharjan	1,159
	Others		2,206
Result		CPN (UML) gain
Source: NepalNews^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Maoist)	Hisila Yami	12,276
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Rajendra Prasad Shrestha	8,815
	Nepali Congress	Pramila Devi Singh Dangol	7,707
	Nepa Rastriya Party	Bijay Prakash Sainju	2,135
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal	Raja Ram Shrestha	1,627
	Others		3,140
Invalid votes			1,808
Result		CPN (Maoist) gain

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