Rupandehi 5 (constituency)

Rupandehi 5 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 2017.^[1]

Rupandehi 5
Parliamentary constituency
Rupanedhi 5 in Lumbini Province
Province	Lumbini Province
District	Rupandehi District
Current constituency
Created	1991
Party	Nepali Congress
Member of Parliament	Bharat Kumar Shah

Incorporated areas

Rupandehi 5 incorporates Kanchan Rural Municipality, Gaidhawa Rural Municipality, wards 5–11 of Sainamaina Municipality, wards 6–9 of Sudhdhodhan Rural Municipality, ward 1 of Mayadevi Rural Municipality and wards 1 and 3–11 of Lumbini Sanskritik Municipality.

Assembly segments

It encompasses the following Lumbini Provincial Assembly segment

• Rupandehi 5(A)
• Rupandehi 5(B)

Members of Parliament

Parliament/Constituent Assembly

Election		Member	Party
	1991	Shyam Sundar Gupta	Nepal Sadbhawana Party
	1994	Sarvendra Nath Shukla	Rastriya Prajatantra Party
	1999	Yaggya Jeet Shah	Nepal Sadbhawana Party
	2008	Ram Nath Dhakal	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
	2013	Bharat Kumar Shah	Nepali Congress
	2022	Basudev Ghimire	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)

Provincial Assembly

5(A) Election Member Party 2017 Bhumeshwar Dhakal CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) May 2018 Nepal Communist Party

5(B) Election Member Party 2017 Fakharuddin Khan Nepali Congress

Election results

Election in the 2020s

2022 general election

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Basudev Ghimire	CPN (UML)	36,822	45.74
	Bharat Kumar Shah	Nepali Congress	27,120	33.69
	Chandrashekhar Sonar	Janamat Party	8,390	10.42
	Bhishma Kumar Rana	Hamro Nepali Party	5,876	7.30
	Others		2,296	2.85
Total			80,504	100.00
Majority			9,702
	CPN (UML) gain
Source: [2]

Election in the 2010s

2017 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Bharat Kumar Shah	33,088
	CPN (Maoist Centre)	Dila Ram Acharya	20,438
	Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal	Mohammad Wakil Musalman	14,121
	CPN (Marxist–Leninist)	Krishna Upadhyaya	1,879
	Rastriya Janamukti Party	Bhaira Bahadur Thapa Magar	1,657
	Rastriya Janata Party Nepal	Rajendra Gupta	1,337
	Others		1,739
Invalid votes			5,237
Result		Congress hold
Source: Election Commission

2017 Nepalese provincial elections

5(A) Party Candidate Votes CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Bhumeshwar Dhakal 22,025 Nepali Congress Bishnu Prasad Pokharel 15,416 Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal Sushila Tharu 3,804 Rastriya Janamukti Party Durga Rajakoti 1,604 Others 1,305 Invalid votes 1,761 Result CPN (UML) gain Source: Election Commission

5(B) Party Candidate Votes Nepali Congress Fakharuddin Khan 16,683 Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal Ramauti Yadav 9,250 CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Hajrat Bilal Fakir 1,673 Rastriya Janata Party Nepal Aliullah Muslaman 1,386 Others 2,108 Invalid votes 2,508 Result Congress gain Source: Election Commission

2013 Constituent Assembly election

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Bharat Kumar Shah	14,274
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Ram Nath Dhakal	13,766
	UCPN (Maoist)	Dadhiram Neupane	4,622
	Rastriya Janamukti Party	Bam Bahadur Darlami Magar	2,393
	Madheshi Janaadhikar Forum, Nepal (Democratic)	Mohan Lal Yadav	2,271
	Others		3,382
Result		Congress gain
Source: NepalNews[3]

Election in the 2000s

2008 Constituent Assembly election

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Ram Nath Dhakal	11,080
	CPN (Maoist)	Basanta Kumar Shrestha	10,785
	Nepali Congress	Bharat Kumar Shah	8,920
	Madheshi Janaadhikar Forum, Nepal	Mohan Lal Yadav	4,443
	Nepal Sadbhavana Party (Anandidevi)	Rangi Lal Lodh	2,610
	Rastriya Janamukti Party	Bhaira Bahadur Thapa	2,571
	Sadbhawana Party	Gajendra Gupta	1,356
	Others		2,885
Invalid votes			2,144
Result		CPN (UML) gain
Source: Election Commission[4]

Election in the 1990s

1999 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepal Sadbhawana Party	Yaggya Jeet Shah	19,203
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	Sarvendra Nath Shukla	14,476
	Nepali Congress	Vashistha Mani Tripathi	9,016
	Others		1,598
Invalid votes			1,151
Result		NSP gain
Source: Election Commission[5][6]

1994 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	Sarvendra Nath Shukla	13,919
	Independent	Yaggya Jeet Shah	11,712
	Nepal Sadbhawana Party	Shyam Sundar Gupta	6,694
	Nepali Congress	Shaligram Upadhyaya	3,699
	Others		1,752
Result		RPP gain
Source: Election Commission[5]

1991 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepal Sadbhawana Party	Shyam Sundar Gupta	12,282
	Nepali Congress	Yaggya Jeet Shah	7,957
Result		NSP gain
Source:

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies of Nepal