# 1st Lumbini Provincial Assembly

The first Lumbini Provincial Assembly was elected by the 2017 provincial elections. 87 members were elected to the assembly, 52 of whom were elected through direct elections and 35 of whom were elected through the party list proportional representation system. The term of the assembly started on 4 February 2018 and ended in September 2022. Shankar Pokharel from the CPN (UML) and Kul Prasad KC from the CPN (Maoist Centre) served as chief ministers during the term of the assembly. Purna Bahadur Gharti served as the speaker of the assembly and Krishni Tharu served as the deputy speaker.

## Composition

| Party | Party | Parliamentary party leader | Seats | Seats |
| Party | Party | Parliamentary party leader | After election | At dissolution |
| | CPN (UML) | Shankar Pokharel | 41 | 37 |
| | Nepali Congress | Birendra Kumar Kanudiya | 12 | 19 |
| | CPN (Maoist Centre) | Kul Prasad KC | 6 | 17 |
| | People's Socialist Party | Sahas Ram Yadav | — | 4 |
| | CPN (Unified Socialist) | Rama Gharti Magar | — | 1 |
| | Rastriya Janamorcha | Tara G.C. | 1 | 1 |
| | Independent | — | — | 1 |
| | Federal Socialist Forum | — | 2 | — |
| | Rastriya Janata Party Nepal | — | 1 | — |
| | Vacant | | | 7 |
| Total | Total | — | 87 | 87 |

## Members

| Constituency/PR group | Member | Party |
| Dalit | Aasha Swarnakar | CPN (UML) |
| Nawalparasi West 1(B) | Ajay Shahi | Independent |
| Banke 1(B) | Arati Paudel | CPN (UML) |
| Kapilvastu 3(A) | Arjun Kumar KC | CPN (UML) |
| Indigenous peoples | Arjun Kumar Shrestha | Nepali Congress |
| Rupandehi 4(A) | Ashtha Bhuja Pathak | Nepali Congress |
| Banke 3(B) | Babu Ram Gautam | CPN (UML) |
| Nawalparasi West 2(A) | Baijanath Chaudhary (Tharu) | CPN (UML) |
| Nawalparasi West 2(B) | Baij Nath Kalwar | Nepali Congress |
| Khas Arya | Bhagawati Devi Bhandari | CPN (UML) |
| Rupandehi 2(B) | Bhoj Prasad Shrestha | CPN (UML) |
| Tharu | Bhubaneshwor Chaudhary | Nepali Congress |
| Rupandehi 5(A) | Bhumishwor Dhakal | CPN (UML) |
| Khas Arya | Bimala Sharma Panthi | CPN (UML) |
| Dang 3(B) | Bimala Kumari Khatri | CPN (UML) |
| Indigenous peoples | Bir Bahadur Rana | Nepali Congress |
| Kapilvastu 3(B) | Birendra Kumar Kanudiya | Nepali Congress |
| Kapilvastu 1(A) | Bishnu Prasad Panthi | CPN (UML) |
| Arghakhanchi 1(A) | Chet Narayan Acharya | CPN (UML) |
| Madheshi | Chintawati Kurmi | CPN (UML) |
| Khas Arya | Dama Kumari Sharma | CPN (Maoist Centre) |
| Tharu | Dhamkali Chaudhary | CPN (UML) |
| Kapilvastu 2(B) | Dharma Bahadur Lal Shriwastav | CPN (UML) |
| Dang 3(A) | Dilli Bahadur Chaudhary | Nepali Congress |
| Dalit | Dipa B.K. | CPN (Maoist Centre) |
| Nawalparasi West 1(A) | Dipendra Kumar Adhikari | CPN (UML) |
| Rolpa 1(B) | Dipendra Kumar Pun Magar | CPN (Maoist Centre) |
| Rupandehi 5(B) | Fakharuddin Khan | Nepali Congress |
| Muslim | Faujiya Nasim | CPN (UML) |
| Khas Arya | Gita Thapa | CPN (Maoist Centre) |
| Pyuthan 1(A) | Hari Prashad Rijal | CPN (UML) |
| Banke 3(A) | Indra Prasad Kharel | CPN (Maoist Centre) |
| Dang 1(A) | Indrajit Tharu | CPN (Maoist Centre) |
| Khas Arya | Jalpa Bhusal | CPN (UML) |
| Bardiya 1(A) | Kabi Ram Tharu | CPN (UML) |
| Gulmi 1(B) | Kamal Raj Shrestha | CPN (UML) |
| Dalit | Kamala Devi B.K. | CPN (UML) |
| Gulmi 2(A) | Khadga Bahadur Khatri | CPN (UML) |
| Pyuthan 1(B) | Krishna Dhoj Khadka | CPN (Maoist Centre) |
| Banke 1(A) | Krishna KC | CPN (Maoist Centre) |
| Rupandehi 1(A) | Krishna Prasad Neupane | CPN (UML) |
| Tharu | Krishni Tharu | CPN (UML) |
| Rolpa 1(A) | Kul Prasad KC | CPN (Maoist Centre) |
| Bardiya 2(A) | Kul Prasad Pokharel | CPN (UML) |
| Tharu | Lauti Tharu | CPN (Maoist Centre) |
| Rupandehi 2(A) | Lila Giri | CPN (UML) |
| Dalit | Mala Gotame | Nepali Congress |
| Muslim | Mohammad Yakub Ansari | Nepali Congress |
| Palpa 1(B) | Narayan Prasad Acharya | CPN (UML) |
| Khas Arya | Nirmala Kshetri | Nepali Congress |
| Madheshi | Nirmala Mudbhari Bhattarai | People's Socialist Party |
| Indigenous peoples | Parbati Pun Gahatraj | CPN (Maoist Centre) |
| Palpa 2(A) | Puran Man Bajracharya | CPN (UML) |
| Indigenous peoples | Purmati Dhenga | People's Socialist Party |
| Eastern Rukum 1(B) | Purna Bahadur Gharti Magar | CPN (Maoist Centre) |
| Tharu | Pushpa Tharuni | Nepali Congress |
| Khas Arya | Rama Aryal | Nepali Congress |
| Indigenous peoples | Rama Gharti | CPN (Unified Socialist) |
| Arghakhanchi 1(B) | Ramji Prasad Ghimire | CPN (UML) |
| Dang 1(B) | Rewati Raman Sharma | CPN (UML) |
| Dalit | Rina Nepal | Nepali Congress |
| Madheshi | Rundhawati Sharma | Nepali Congress |
| Kapilvastu 1(B) | Sahas Ram Yadav | People's Socialist Party |
| Khas Arya | Saraswati Gautam | CPN (UML) |
| Khas Arya | Shankar Giri | Nepali Congress |
| Dang 2(A) | Shankar Pokharel | CPN (UML) |
| Madheshi, Sonar | Shanti Devi Swarnakar | Nepali Congress |
| Gulmi 1(A) | Sudarshan Baral | CPN (Maoist Centre) |
| Khas Arya | Suman Sharma Rayamajhi | People's Socialist Party |
| Madheshi | Sunita Kumari Thather | CPN (UML) |
| Banke 2(B) | Surendra Bahadur Hamal | Nepali Congress |
| Madheshi | Sushma Yadav | CPN (Maoist Centre) |
| Khas Arya | Tara G.C. | Rastriya Janamorcha |
| Eastern Rukum 1(A) | Tej Bahadur Oli | CPN (Maoist Centre) |
| Indigenous peoples | Than Kumari Thapa | CPN (UML) |
| Bardiya 1(B) | Tilak Ram Sharma | CPN (Maoist Centre) |
| Palpa 2(B) | Tula Ram Gharti Magar | CPN (Maoist Centre) |
| Rupandehi 3(B) | Tulshi Prasad Chaudhary | CPN (UML) |
| Rupandehi 4(B) | Wasiuddin Khan | Nepali Congress |
| Palpa 1(A) | Yuvaraj Khanal | CPN (UML) |

### Changes

| Constituency/PR group | MPA | Party | Date seat vacated | Cause of vacation | New MPA | Party |
| Madheshi | Bina Panta | Rastriya Janata Party Nepal | 6 June 2018 | Resignation | Kalpana Pandey | Rastriya Janata Party Nepal |
| Dang 3(B) | Uttar Kumar Oli | Nepal Communist Party | 22 February 2019 | Death | Bimala Kumari Khatri | Nepal Communist Party |
| Khas Arya | Baldev Sharma Pokharel | Nepali Congress | 20 January 2020 | Death | Shankar Giri | Nepali Congress |
| Rupandehi 1(B) | Dadhiram Neupane | CPN (Maoist Centre) | 6 April 2021 | Expelled by party | | |
| Gulmi 2(B) | Dinesh Panthi | CPN (Maoist Centre) | 6 April 2021 | Expelled by party | | |
| Kapilvastu 1(A) | Dirgha Narayan Pandey | CPN (UML) | 2 May 2021 | Resignation | | |
| Dang 2(B) | Amar Bahadur Dangi Chhetri | CPN (UML) | 5 May 2021 | Resignation | | |
| Rupandehi 3(A) | Santosh Kumar Pandeya | People's Socialist Party | 29 April 2021 | Expelled by party | | |
| Banke 2(A) | Bijay Bahadur Yadav | People's Socialist Party | 29 April 2021 | Expelled by party | | |
| Madheshi | Kalpana Pandey | People's Socialist Party | 29 April 2021 | Expelled by party | Nirmala Mudbhari Bhattarai | People's Socialist Party |
| Bardiya 2(B) | Dipesh Tharu | CPN (Maoist Centre) | 24 April 2022 | Resignation to contest as mayor of Rajapur | | |

### Defections

| Constituency/PR group | MPA | Previous Party | Previous Party | Date defected | New Party | New Party |
| Indigenous peoples | Rama Gharti | | CPN (UML) | 1 September 2021 | | CPN (Unified Socialist) |