Rupandehi 4 (constituency)

Rupandehi 4 one of three parliamentary constituencies of Rupandehi District in Nepal. This constituency came into existence on the Constituency Delimitation Commission (CDC) report submitted on 31 August 2022.^[1]

Rupandehi 4
Parliamentary constituency for the House of Representatives
Rupandehi 4 in Lumbini Province
Province	Lumbini Province
District	Rupandehi District
Current constituency
Created	1991
Party	Nepali Congress
Member of Parliament	Pramod Kumar Yadav

Incorporated areas

Rupandehi 4 incorporates Sammarimai Rural Municipality, Marchawari Rural Municipality, Kothimai Rural Municipality, wards 2–6 of Mayadevi Rural Municipality, wards 4 and 5 of Siyari Rural Municipality and wards 2, 12 and 13 of Lumbini Sanskritik Municipality.

Assembly segments

It encompasses the following Lumbini Provincial Assembly segment

• Rupandehi 4(A)
• Rupandehi 4(B)

Members of Parliament

Parliament/Constituent Assembly

Election		Member	Party
	1991	Sant Prasad Chaudhary	Nepal Sadbhawana Party
	1994	Jyotendra Mohan Chaudhary	Independent
	1995		Rastriya Prajatantra Party
	January 1998		Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Chand)
	1999	Bharat Kumar Shah	Nepali Congress
	2008	Bishnu Prasad Paudel	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
	2017	Pramod Kumar Yadav	Nepali Congress
	2022	Sarbendra Nath Shukla	Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal

Provincial Assembly

4(A) Election Member Party 2017 Ashta Bhuja Pathak Nepali Congress

4(B) Election Member Party 2017 Basiuddin Khan Nepali Congress

Election results

Election in the 2020s

2022 general election

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Sarbendra Nath Shukla	Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal	28,000	39.44
	Pramod Kumar Yadav	Nepali Congress	22,704	31.98
	Bhopendra Prasad Yadav	Janamat Party	15,526	21.87
	Om Prakash Yadav	People's Socialist Party, Nepal	2,623	3.69
	Mahendra Nath Singh Rae	Nepal Janata Party	1,086	1.53
	Others		1,063	1.50
Total			71,002	100.00
Majority			5,296
	Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal gain
Source: [2]

Election in the 2010s

2017 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Pramod Kumar Yadav	31,718
	Rastriya Janata Party Nepal	Sarbendra Nath Shukla	20,416
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Om Prakash Yadav	4,079
	Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal	Om Prakash Yadav	2,306
	Others		2,491
Invalid votes			6,759
Result		Congress gain
Source: Election Commission

2017 Nepalese provincial elections

4(A) Party Candidate Votes Nepali Congress Ashta Bhuja Pathak 9,064 Rastriya Janata Party Nepal Hajrat Ali 4,634 Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal Kanhaiya Baniya 4,521 CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Pallavi Shukla 2,339 Independent Dilip Kumar Singh Lodh 2,112 Nepal Yuva Kisan Party Kamala Pati Yadav 1,503 Independent Sahauddin Devan 1,402 Nepal Janata Party Biresh Barai 1,271 Others 1,478 Invalid votes 3,539 Result Congress gain Source: Election Commission

4(B) Party Candidate Votes Nepali Congress Basiuddin Khan 12,113 Independent Birendra Kalvar 5,769 Independent Bal Krishna Tripathi 3,499 Rastriya Janata Party Nepal Shrinivas Yadav 3,120 CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Sant Kumar Yadav 2,661 Independent Om Prakash Lodh 2,606 Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal Ramu Ahir 1,122 Others 1,418 Invalid votes 3,556 Result Congress gain Source: Election Commission

2013 Constituent Assembly election

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Bishnu Prasad Paudel	19,577
	Nepali Congress	Surya Prasad Pradhan	13,632
	UCPN (Maoist)	Dr. Baburam Bhattarai	11,934
	Rastriya Janamukti Party	Bhim Bahadur Rana	2,290
	Others		2,882
Result		CPN (UML) hold
Source: NepalNews[3]

Election in the 2000s

2008 Constituent Assembly election

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Bishnu Prasad Paudel	15,880
	CPN (Maoist)	Bhakti Prasad Pandey	13,421
	Nepali Congress	Surya Prasad Pradhan	13,182
	Rastriya Janamukti Party	Kamala Thapa	2,012
	CPN (Marxist–Leninist)	Tika Nidhi Gautam	1,335
	Others		1,828
Invalid votes			1,442
Result		CPN (UML) gain
Source: Election Commission[4]

Election in the 1990s

1999 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Bharat Kumar Shah	15,030
	Nepal Sadbhawana Party	Mohammad Ajim Miya	14,539
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Ramnath Sharma Dhakal	12,958
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Chand)	Deepak Bohara	9,962
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	Jyotendra Mohan Chaudhary	6,963
	Rastriya Janamukti Party	Jasmaya Gurung	1,204
	Others		1,433
Invalid votes			1,727
Result		Congress gain
Source: Election Commission[5][6]

1994 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	Jyotendra Mohan Chaudhary	11,559
	Nepal Sadbhawana Party	Mohammad Ajim Miya	11,015
	Nepali Congress	Laxmi Upadhyaya	10,822
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Bhim Narayan Tharu	10,087
	Others		8,557
Result		Independent gain
Source: Election Commission[5]

1991 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepal Sadbhawana Party	Sant Prasad Chaudhary	9,866
	Nepali Congress		9,829
Result		NSP gain
Source:

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies of Nepal