Jhapa 3 (constituency)

**Jhapa 3** () 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 3 incorporates Kachankawal Rural Municipality, Haldibari Rural Municipality, Barhadashi Rural Municipality, ward 10 of Birtamod Municipality and wards 1–8 of Bhadrapur Municipality.

## Assembly segments

It encompasses the following Koshi Provincial Assembly  segment

- Jhapa 3(A)
- Jhapa 3(B)

### Parliament/Constituent Assembly

|colspan="2"|Election|Member|Party|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2" style="background-color:"||1991|Radha Krishna Mainali|rowspan="2"|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|
|1994|Devi Prasad Ojha|||||
|style="background-color:"||1999|Narendra Bikram Nemwang|Nepali Congress||
|rowspan="2" style="background-color:darkred"||2008|rowspan="2"|Purna Prasad Rajbanshi|CPN (Maoist)|
|_January 2009_|UCPN (Maoist)|||||
|style="background-color:"||2013|Krishna Prasad Sitaula|Nepali Congress||
|style="background-color:"||2017|Rajendra Prasad Lingden|Rastriya Prajatantra Party||

#### 3(A)

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

#### 3(B)

|colspan="2"|Election|Member|Party|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||2017|rowspan="3"|Purna Prasad Rajbansi|CPN (Maoist Centre)|
|style="background-color:"||_May 2018_|Nepal Communist Party|||
|style="background-color:"||_March 2021_|CPN (Maoist Centre)|||

#### 2017 legislative elections

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:gold"||Rastriya Prajatantra Party|Rajendra Prasad Lingden|44,614|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Krishna Prasad Sitaula|31,171|
|style="background-color:indianred"||CPN (Marxist–Leninist)|Navaraj Kharel|1,306|
||colspan="2"|Others|1,841||
|colspan="3"|Invalid votes|4,312|||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

##### 3(A)

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Basanta Kumar Baniya|22,553|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Bhumi Prasad Rajbanshi|17,005|
||colspan="2"|Others|1,392||
|colspan="3"|Invalid votes|1,312|||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

##### 3(B)

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Maoist Centre)|Purna Prasad Rajbanshi|22,065|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Bhagirath Kumar Poddar|14,735|
||colspan="2"|Others|2,527||
|colspan="3"|Invalid votes|1,527|||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

#### 2013 Constituent Assembly election

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Krishna Prasad Sitaula|14,355|
|style="background-color:orange"||Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal|Rajendra Prasad Lingden|9,253|
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Basanta Kumar Baniya|6,462|
|style="background-color:darkred"||UCPN (Maoist)|Dharma Shila Chapagain|6,217|
|style="background-color:darkorange"||Madheshi Janaadhikar Forum, Nepal (Democratic)|Bharatendu Kumar Mallik|3,798|
|style="background-color:pink"||Federal Socialist Party, Nepal|Bijay Kumar Gurung|1,358|
||colspan="2"|Others|2,291||
|colspan="4"|Source: NepalNews||||

#### 2008 Constituent Assembly election

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:darkred"||CPN (Maoist)|Purna Prasad Rajbanshi|16,685|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Krishna Prasad Sitaula|14,049|
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Pushpa Raj Pokharel|9,654|
|style="background-color:indianred"||CPN (Marxist–Leninist)|Navaraj Kharel|2,236|
|style="background-color:gold"||Rastriya Prajatantra Party|Gopal Bahadur Ghimire|1,141|
||Others||3,002||
|colspan="3"|Invalid votes|2,649|||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

#### 1999 legislative elections

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Narendra Bikram Limbu|21,030|
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Bishnu Prasad Prasai|17,657|
|style="background-color:indianred"||CPN (Marxist–Leninist)|Puspa Raj Pokharel|8,219|
|style="background-color:gold"||Rastriya Prajatantra Party|Kalyan Khadka|1,211|
|style="background-color:"||Independent|Shanti Lal Dhimal|1,098|
||colspan="2"|Others|2,075||
|colspan="3"|Invalid Votes|1,569|||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

#### 1994 legislative elections

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Devi Prasad Ojha|16,674|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Gopal Kumar Basnet|13,614|
|style="background-color:gold"||Rastriya Prajatantra Party|Chandra Dangi|4,125|
||colspan="2"|Others|2,951||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

#### 1991 legislative elections

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Radha Krishna Mainali|20,050|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Chakra Prasad Bastola|13,721|
|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 3
- **type**: Parliamentary
- **map size**: 300
- **map year**: 2017
- **image**: Jhapa3PratinidhiSabha.svg
- **caption**: Jhapa 3 in Koshi Province (Nepal), Koshi Province
- **district label**: Province
- **district**: Koshi Province (Nepal), Koshi Province
- **region label**: District
- **region**: Jhapa District
- **year**: 1991
- **party**: Rastriya Prajatantra Party
- **members label**: Member of Parliament
- **members**: Rajendra Prasad Lingden
- **blank1 name**: Koshi Provincial Assembly, Koshi Province
MPA 1(A)
- **blank1 info**: Bhumi Prasad Rajbhandari
(Nepali Congress, NC)
- **blank2 info**: Chhabilal Chudal
(CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist), UML)
- **blank2 name**: Koshi Provincial Assembly, Koshi Province
MPA 1(B)