Jhapa 2 (constituency)

**Jhapa 2** () 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 2 incorporates Arjundhara Municipality, wards 1–9 of Birtamod Municipality, wards 8 and 9 of Kankai Municipality and wards 1-2–3 of Buddhashanti Rural Municipality.

## Assembly segments

It encompasses the following Koshi Provincial Assembly  segment

- Jhapa 2(A)
- Jhapa 2(B)

### Parliament/Constituent Assembly

|colspan="2"|Election|Member|Party|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2" style="background-color:"||1991|Devi Prasad Ojha|rowspan="2"|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|
|1994|rowspan="2"|Chandra Prakash Mainali||||
|style="background-color:indianred"||_March 1998_|CPN (Marxist–Leninist)|||
|style="background-color:"||1999|K.P. Sharma Oli|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)||
|rowspan="2" style="background-color:darkred"||2008|rowspan="2"|Gauri Shankar Khadka|CPN (Maoist)|
|_January 2009_|UCPN (Maoist)|||||
|style="background-color:"||2013|Sudhir Kumar Siwakoti|Nepali Congress||
|style="background-color:"||2017|rowspan="3"|Pabitra Niraula Kharel|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|
|style="background-color:"||_May 2018_|Nepal Communist Party|||
|style="background-color:"||_March 2021_|rowspan="2"|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)||
|style="background-color:"||2022|Dev Raj Ghimire|||

#### 2(A)

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

#### 2(B)

|colspan="2"|Election|Member|Party|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||2017|rowspan="3"|Brikha Bahadur Pradhan|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)|Pabitra Niraula Kharel|45,817|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Udhhav Thapa|32,050|
|style="background-color:midnightblue"||Bibeksheel Sajha Party|Nabin Bastola|1,105|
||colspan="2"|Others|2,985||
|colspan="3"|Invalid votes|3,699|||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

##### 2(A)

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Ek Raj Karki|21,284|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Laxman Khadka|12,722|
||colspan="2"|Others|2,003||
|colspan="3"|Invalid votes|1,318|||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

##### 2(B)

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Brikha Bahadur Pradhan|25,461|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Khang Prasad Prasai|18,240|
||colspan="2"|Others|2,933||
|colspan="3"|Invalid votes|1,601|||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

#### 2013 Constituent Assembly election

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Sudhir Kumar Siwakoti|13,554|
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Pabitra Niraula Kharel|12,825|
|style="background-color:darkred"||UCPN (Maoist)|Purna Prasad Rajbanshi|10,108|
|style="background-color:orange"||Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal|Bhakti Prasad Situala|6,710|
|style="background-color:pink"||Federal Socialist Party, Nepal|Bhupal Bahadur Rai|1,012|
||colspan="2"|Others|2,605||
|colspan="4"|Source: NepalNews||||

#### 2008 Constituent Assembly election

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:darkred"||CPN (Maoist)|Gauri Shankar Khadka|18,580|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Sudhir Kumar Siwakoti|13,843|
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Menuka Pokharel Kafle|9,168|
|style="background-color:indianred"||CPN (Marxist–Leninist)|Bhaskar Kafle|2,716|
||Others||4,069||
|colspan="3"|Invalid votes|2,978|||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

#### 1999 legislative elections

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|K.P. Sharma Oli|18,909|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Giriraj Kumari Prasai|18,892|
|style="background-color:indianred"||CPN (Marxist–Leninist)|Chandra Prakash Mainali|10,199|
|style="background-color:dodgerblue"||Rastriya Janamukti Party|Sanjuhang Palungwa Limbu|2,727|
|style="background-color:gold"||Rastriya Prajatantra Party|Hari Nath Bastola|1,143|
||colspan="2"|Others|1,174||
|colspan="3"|Invalid Votes|2,001|||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

#### 1994 legislative elections

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Chandra Prakash Mainali|18,863|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Ram Babu Prasai|12,456|
|style="background-color:gold"||Rastriya Prajatantra Party|Jay Narayan Dhungana|6,247|
|style="background-color:dodgerblue"||Rastriya Janamukti Party|Bal Bahadur Idnam|2,072|
|style="background-color:yellowgreen"||Nepal Sadbhawana Party|Kameshwar Dutta|1,087|
||colspan="2"|Others|529||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

#### 1991 legislative elections

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Devi Prasad Ojha|20,646|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|C.K. Prasai|12,382|
|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 2
- **type**: Parliamentary
- **map size**: 300
- **map year**: 2017
- **image**: Jhapa2PratinidhiSabha.svg
- **caption**: Jhapa 2 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**: Dev Raj Ghimire
- **blank1 name**: Koshi Provincial Assembly, Koshi Province
MPA 1(A)
- **blank1 info**: Ekraj Karki
(CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist), UML)
- **blank2 name**: Koshi Provincial Assembly, Koshi Province
MPA 1(B)
- **blank2 info**: Tilchan Pathak
(CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist), UML)