Jhapa 5 (constituency)

**Jhapa 5** () is one of five parliamentary constituencies of Jhapa District in Nepal. This constituency came into existence on the Constituency Delimitation Commission (CDC) report submitted on 31 August 2017.

## Incorporated areas

Jhapa 5 incorporates Damak Municipality, Kamal Rural Municipality, wards 1–8 of Gauradaha Municipality and wards 3–6 of Gauriganj Rural Municipality.

## Assembly segments

It encompasses the following Koshi Provincial Assembly  segment

- Jhapa 5(A)
- Jhapa 5(B)

### Parliament/Constituent Assembly

|colspan="2"|Election|Member|Party|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2" style="background-color:"||1991|Narayan Singh Rajbanshi|rowspan="2"|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|
|1994|rowspan="2"|Radha Krishna Mainali||||
|style="background-color:indianred"||_March 1998_|CPN (Marxist–Leninist)|||
|style="background-color:"||1999|Tara Sam Yongya|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)||
|style="background-color:"||2008|Keshav Kumar Budhathoki|Nepali Congress||
|style="background-color:"||2017|rowspan="3"|K.P. Sharma Oli|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|

#### 5(A)

|colspan="2"|Election|Member|Party|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||2017|rowspan="3"|Hikmat Kumar Karki|CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)|
|style="background-color:"||_May 2018_|Nepal Communist Party|||
|style="background-color:"||_March 2021_|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|||

#### 5(B)

|colspan="2"|Election|Member|Party|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||2017|rowspan="3"|Arjun Rai|CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)|
|style="background-color:"||_May 2018_|Nepal Communist Party|||
|style="background-color:"||_March 2021_|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|||

#### 2017 legislative elections

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|K.P. Sharma Oli|43,515|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Khagendra Adhikari|26,822|
|style="background-color:pink"||Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal|Satya Dev Prasad|1,915|
|style="background-color:hotpink"||Sanghiya Loktantrik Rastriya Manch|Gyan Bahadur Imbung Limbu|1,380|
||colspan="2"|Others|2,614||
|colspan="3"|Invalid votes|4,674|||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

##### 5(A)

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Hikmat Kumar Karki|24,098|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Anil Krishna Prasai|18,636|
|style="background-color:hotpink"||Sanghiya Loktantrik Rastriya Manch|Surya Prasad Limbu|1,045|
||colspan="2"|Others|1,586||
|colspan="3"|Invalid votes|1,989|||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

##### 5(B)

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Arjun Rai|30,973|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Rajan Bahadur Dhungana|10,993|
|style="background-color:pink"||Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal|Sushil Kumar Rai|1,626|
||colspan="2"|Others|3,361||
|colspan="3"|Invalid votes|1,552|||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

#### 2013 Constituent Assembly election

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Keshav Kumar Budhathoki|16,587|
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Lal Prasad Sawa Limbu|16,347|
|style="background-color:darkred"||UCPN (Maoist)|Jhalak Bahadur Magar|9,172|
|style="background-color:orange"||Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal|Dhruba Kumar Upreti|3,154|
|style="background-color:seagreen"||Sadbhavana Party|Om Narayan Rajbanshi|1,523|
||colspan="2"|Others|5,028||
|colspan="4"|Source: NepalNews||||

#### 2008 Constituent Assembly election

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Keshav Kumar Budhathoki|16,466|
|style="background-color:darkred"||CPN (Maoist)|Harka Bahadur Khadka|15,548|
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Tara Sam Yongya|13,247|
|style="background-color:seagreen"||Sadbhavana Party|Surya Narayan Ganesh|6,655|
|style="background-color:orangered"||Madheshi Janaadhikar Forum, Nepal|Tara Nath Rajbanshi|2,601|
|style="background-color:hotpink"||Sanghiya Loktantrik Rastriya Manch|Lahan Singh Tumbapo|1,398|
||Others||2,457||
|colspan="3"|Invalid votes|4,214|||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

#### 1999 legislative elections

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Tara Sam Yongya|19,199|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Santosh Kumar Meinyangbo|16,651|
|style="background-color:yellowgreen"||Nepal Sadbhawana Party|Nitya Nand Tajpuriya|3,492|
|style="background-color:dodgerblue"||Rastriya Janamukti Party|Chandra Prasad Yongya|2,491|
|style="background-color:indianred"||CPN (Marxist–Leninist)|Jung Prasad Chemjong|1,896|
|style="background-color:gold"||Rastriya Prajatantra Party|Laxmi Prasad Odari|1,557|
||colspan="2"|Others|656||
|colspan="3"|Invalid Votes|942|||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

#### 1994 legislative elections

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Radha Krishna Mainali|16,361|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Surya Narayan Tajpuriya|13,898|
|style="background-color:gold"||Rastriya Prajatantra Party|Shiva Kumar Yongya|4,013|
|style="background-color:dodgerblue"||Rastriya Janamukti Party|Chandra Prasad Yongya|3,043|
|style="background-color:yellowgreen"||Nepal Sadbhawana Party|Top Lal Rajbanshi|1,652|
||Nepal Janabadi Morcha|Kedar Nar Singh|197||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

#### 1991 legislative elections

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Chandra Prakash Mainali|18,892|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Ram Babu Prasai|11,948|
|colspan="4"|Source: http://nepalresearch.org/politics/background/elections_old/election_1991_constituency_results_english.pdf(http://nepalresearch.org/politics/background/elections_old/election_1991_constituency_results_english.pdf)||||

## Related pages

- List of parliamentary constituencies of Nepal

## Other websites

- Constituency map of Jhapa

## Infobox (constituency)

- **name**: Jhapa 5
- **type**: Parliamentary
- **map size**: 300
- **map year**: 2017
- **image**: Jhapa5PratinidhiSabha.svg
- **caption**: Jhapa 5 in Koshi Province (Nepal), Koshi Province
- **district label**: Province
- **district**: Koshi Province (Nepal), Koshi Province
- **region label**: District
- **region**: Jhapa District
- **year**: 1991
- **party**: CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
- **members label**: Member of Parliament
- **members**: KP Sharma Oli
- **blank1 name**: Koshi Provincial Assembly, Koshi Province
MPA 5(A)
- **blank1 info**: Hikmat Kumar Karki
(CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist), UML)
- **blank2 name**: Koshi Provincial Assembly, Koshi Province
MPA 5 (B)
- **blank2 info**: Hom Bahadur Thapa
(CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist), UML)