2022 Madhesh Provincial Assembly election

**Provincial assembly elections** happened in Nepal in November 2022. The election happened sooner because of the Nepali Congress wanted it to. The opposing party, the CPN (UML), wants a new election.

### Current composition

|colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Party|rowspan="2"|Ideology|colspan="3"|2017 result|rowspan="2"|Current seats||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|bgcolor=""||Nepali Congress|Social democracy/Third Way|colspan="2" align="right"|24.11||||||
|bgcolor=""||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Marxism–Leninism|colspan="2" align="right"|16.25||||||
|bgcolor=""||CPN (Maoist Centre)|Marxism–Leninism–Maoism–Prachanda Path|colspan="2" align="right"|11.88||||||
|bgcolor=""||CPN (Unified Socialist)|Marxism–Leninism|colspan="3"|New Party||||||
|rowspan="3" bgcolor=""||rowspan="3"|People's Socialist Party, Nepal|rowspan="3"|Democratic Socialism|RJPN|20.72||rowspan="3"||
|FSFN|18.48||||||||||
|Independent|||||||||||
|bgcolor=""||Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal|Social democracy|colspan="3"|New party||||||
|bgcolor=""||Nepal Socialist Party|Social democracy|colspan="3"|New party||||||

## Candidates

|colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Constituency|colspan="3"|Nepali Congress+|colspan="3"|CPN (UML)+|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|Saptari 1|A|bgcolor=""||LSP-N|Tulsi Prasad Chaudhary||||
|B|bgcolor=""||NC|Badri Narayan Mahatman Yadav||||||
|rowspan="2"|Saptari 2|A|bgcolor=""||LSP-N|Saroj Kumar Mandal||||
|B|bgcolor=""||CPN (MC)|Umesh Kumar Yadav||||||
|rowspan="2"|Saptari 3|A|bgcolor=""||NC|Mohammad Samim||||
|B|bgcolor=""||NC|Bhagwati Prasad Yadav||||||
|rowspan="2"|Saptari 4|A|bgcolor=""||CPN (US)|Govind Bahadur Neupane||||
|B|bgcolor=""||NC|Indra Dev Yadav||||||
|rowspan="2"|Siraha 1|A|bgcolor=""||NC|Sunil Kumar Mahato||||
|B|bgcolor=""||CPN (US)|Ashok Kumar Yadav||||||
|rowspan="2"|Siraha 2|A|bgcolor=""||CPN (MC)|Jeebach Kumar Yadav||||
|B|bgcolor=""||CPN (US)|Madansen Prasad Shreevasatav||||||
|rowspan="2"|Siraha 3|A|bgcolor=""||NC|Ram Sagun Yadav||||
|B|bgcolor=""||NC|Sanjay Prakash Yadav||||||
|rowspan="2"|Siraha 4|A|bgcolor=""||CPN (MC)|Mahendra Paswan||||
|B|bgcolor=""||LSP-N|Ram Babu Yadav||||||
|rowspan="2"|Dhanusha 1|A|bgcolor=""||NC|Sanjay Kumar Mahato||||
|B|bgcolor=""||LSP-N|Sanjay Kumar Singh||||||
|rowspan="2"|Dhanusha 2|A|bgcolor=""||LSP-N|Sanjay Kumar Sah||||
|B|bgcolor=""||CPN (US)|Shailendra Kumar Yadav||||||
|rowspan="2"|Dhanusha 3|A|bgcolor=""||NC|Ram Saroj Yadav||||
|B|bgcolor=""||NC|Hari Shankar Sah||||||
|rowspan="2"|Dhanusha 4|A|bgcolor=""||NC|Shesh Narayan Yadav||||
|B|bgcolor=""||CPN (US)|Satrudhan Mahato||||||
|rowspan="2"|Mahottari 1|A|bgcolor=""||LSP-N|Pitambar Mahato||||
|B|bgcolor=""||CPN (MC)|Bharat Prasad Sah||||||
|rowspan="2"|Mahottari 2|A|bgcolor=""||LSP-N|Jayanul Rain||||
|B|bgcolor=""||NC|Nageshwar Yadav||||||
|rowspan="2"|Mahottari 3|A|bgcolor=""||LSP-N|Abhiram Sharma||||
|B|bgcolor=""||LSP-N|Rani Kumari Tiwari||||||
|rowspan="2"|Mahottari 4|A|bgcolor=""||LSP-N|Kaushal Kumar Yadav||||
|B|bgcolor=""||CPN (MC)|Lalendra Kumar Mandal||||||
|rowspan="2"|Sarlahi 1|A|bgcolor=""||LSP-N|Upendra Mahato||||
|B|bgcolor=""||CPN (US)|Bechi Lungeli||||||
|rowspan="2"|Sarlahi 2|A|bgcolor=""||NC|Jangi Lal Ray||||
|B|bgcolor=""||NC|Kaushal Kishor Ray||||||
|rowspan="2"|Sarlahi 3|A|bgcolor=""||CPN (US)|Dilli Prasad Upreti||||
|B|bgcolor=""||NC|Haresh Prasad Mahato||||||
|rowspan="2"|Sarlahi 4|A|bgcolor=""||NC|Birendra Prasad Singh||||
|B|bgcolor=""||CPN (MC)|Fakira Mahato||||||
|rowspan="2"|Rautahat 1|A|bgcolor=""||NC|Nagendra Sah||||
|B|bgcolor=""||NC|Krishna Prasad Yadav||||||
|rowspan="2"|Rautahat 2|A|bgcolor=""||LSP-N|Shekh Jamsedh||||
|B|bgcolor=""||CPN (MC)|Surendra Prasad Jayasbal||||||
|rowspan="2"|Rautahat 3|A|bgcolor=""||CPN (US)|Nagendra Raya Yadav||||
|B|bgcolor=""||NC|Sunil Kumar Yadav||||||
|rowspan="2"|Rautahat 4|A|bgcolor=""||CPN (US)|Bal Krishna Shrestha||||
|B|bgcolor=""||CPN (US)|Shekh Satar Ahmad||||||
|rowspan="2"|Bara 1|A|bgcolor=""||NC|Ramesh Prasad Dangal||||
|B|bgcolor=""||NC|Nagendra Prasad Kanu||||||
|rowspan="2"|Bara 2|A|bgcolor=""||LSP-N|Moti Lal Prasad||||
|B|bgcolor=""||NC|Ram Ayodhya Prasad Yadav||||||
|rowspan="2"|Bara 3|A|bgcolor=""||CPN (MC)|Mukesh Sah||||
|B|bgcolor=""||NC|Jay Chandra Prasad Chaurasiya||||||
|rowspan="2"|Bara 4|A|bgcolor=""||CPN (MC)|Chetra Bahadur Shrestha||||
|B|bgcolor=""||LSP-N|Jitendra Prasad Sonal||||||
|rowspan="2"|Parsa 1|A|bgcolor=""||CPN (MC)|Rahabar Ansari||||
|B|bgcolor=""||NC|Ram Narayan Prasad Kurmi||||||
|rowspan="2"|Parsa 2|A|bgcolor=""||NC|Shyam Prasad Patel||||
|B|bgcolor=""||LSP-N|Ramesh Prasad Kurmi||||||
|rowspan="2"|Parsa 3|A|bgcolor=""||CPN (MC)|Chotte Lal Prasad Yadav||||
|B|bgcolor=""||NC|Janardan Singh Chhetri||||||
|rowspan="2"|Parsa 4|A|bgcolor=""||NC|Shankar Prasad Kurmi||||
|B|bgcolor=""||CPN (MC)|Chand Tara Kurmi||||||

## Alliance

|No.|Party|Flag|Symbol|Leader|Photo|Seats Contested|Male Candidates|Female Candidates|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align:center; background:;color:white"|**1.**|Nepali Congress|||Ram Saroj Yadav||27|_TBD_|_TBD_||
|style="text-align:center; background:;color:white"|**2.**|Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal|||Jitendra Prasad Sonal||15|_TBD_|_TBD_||
|style="text-align:center; background:;color:white"|**3.**|CPN (Unified Socialist)|||Satrudhan Mahato||11|_TBD_|_TBD_||
|style="text-align:center; background:;color:white"|**4.**|CPN (Maoist Centre)||rowspan="2"||Bharat Prasad Sah||10|_TBD_|_TBD_|
|style="text-align:center; background:crimson;color:white"|**5.**|Socialist Party of Nepal||Ram Naresh Ray Yadav||1|1|0|||

### +

|No.|Party|Flag|Symbol|Leader|Photo|Seats Contested|Male Candidates|Female Candidates||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align:center; background:;color:white"|**1.**|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|||Satya Narayan Mandal||32|_TBD_|_TBD_|
|style="text-align:center; background:;color:white"|**2.**|People's Socialist Party, Nepal|||Mohammad Lalbabu Raut||32|_TBD_|_TBD_|

|No.|Party|Flag|Symbol|Leader|Photo|Seats contested|Male candidates|Female candidates||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align:center; background:;color:white"|**1.**|Rastriya Prajatantra Party|||Rajendra Prasad Lingden||TBD|_TBD_|_TBD_|

### Others

|No.|Party|Flag|Symbol|Leader|Photo|Seats Contested|Chief Candidates|Deputy chief Candidates||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align:center; background:indianred;color:white"|**1.**|Bidrohi CPN (UML)|||Prabhu Sah|17|_TBD_|_TBD_||
|style="text-align:center; background:;color:white"|**2.**|Terai Madhesh Loktantrik Party|||Brikhesh Chandra Lal||TBD|TBD|TBD|
|style="text-align:center; background:;color:white"|**3.**|People's Progressive Party|||Shivajee Yadav||TBD|TBD|TBD|
|style="text-align:center; background:;color:white"|**4.**|Janamat Party|||Kishori Sah Kamal||TBD|TBD|TBD|
|style="text-align:center; background:;color:white"|**5.**|People's Freedom Party|||Resham Lal Chaudhary||TBD|TBD|TBD|

## Opinion poll

|colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Party|||rowspan="2"|Total|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|bgcolor=""||align="left"|Nepali Congress|17-20|11-13|28-33||||
|bgcolor=""||align="left"|CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)|11-13|9-10|19-23||||
|bgcolor="FFC0CB"||align="left"|People's Socialist Party, Nepal|9-11|6-8|15-19||||
|bgcolor=""||align="left"|Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal|7-8|5-6|12-14||||
|bgcolor="8B0000"||align="left"|CPN (Maoist Centre)|rowspan="2"|8-9|rowspan="2"|6-8|rowspan="2"|14-17|
|bgcolor="#00B2B2"||align="left"|Nepal Socialist Party|||||||
|bgcolor=""||align="left"|CPN (Unified Socialist)|4-5|3-5|7-10||||
|bgcolor="orangered"||align="left"|Janamat Party|3-4|2-3|0-1||||
|bgcolor=""||align="left"|Independent|0-1||0-1||||

## Result

|colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Party|colspan="3"||colspan="3"||rowspan="2"|Total||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|bgcolor=""||align="left"|Nepali Congress|||13|303958|20.14|9|22|
|bgcolor=""||align="left"|CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)|||15|268048|17.77|8|23|
|bgcolor="FFC0CB"||align="left"|People's Socialist Party, Nepal|||8|211690|14.03|7|15|
|bgcolor="orangered"||align="left"|Janamat Party|||6|203892|13.51|6|12|
|bgcolor="8B0000"||align="left"|CPN (Maoist Centre)|||4|128737|8.53|4|8|
|bgcolor=""||align="left"|CPN (Unified Socialist)|||4|89012|5.89|3|7|
|bgcolor=""||align="left"|Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal|||7|74319|4.92|2|9|
|bgcolor="yellow"||align="left"|Rastriya Prajatantra Party|||0|52415|3.47|2|2|
|bgcolor="#00B2B2"||align="left"|Nagrik Unmukti Party|||0|39656|2.63|1|1|
|bgcolor="#CD5C5C"||align="left"|Nepal Federal Socialist Party|||0|38771|2.56|1|1|
||align="left"|Others|||0|98134|6.5||0||
|bgcolor=""||align="left"|Independent|||6|-|||6|

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: 2022 Provincial Assembly election of Madhesh Province
- **country**: Nepal
- **type**: parliamentary
- **previous election**: 2017 Provincial Assembly of Madhesh Province election, 2017
- **previous year**: 2017 Provincial Assembly of Madhesh Province election, 2017
- **previous mps**: 1st Madhesh Provincial Assembly
- **next election**: 2017 Provincial Assembly of Madhesh Province
- **next year**: 2027 Provincial Assembly of Madhesh Province, 2027
- **election date**: 20 November 2022
- **seats for election**: All 107 seats in the Provincial Assembly of Madhesh Province
- **majority seats**: 54
- **image size**: 100px
- **image1**:
- **leader1**: Ram Saroj Yadav
- **leader since1**: 2021
- **party1**: Nepali Congress
- **leaders seat1**: Dhanusha 3, Dhanusha 3(A)
- **last election1**: 27.82%
19 seats
- **seats before1**: 19
- **seats after1**: 22
- **seat change1**: 3
- **image2**:
- **leader2**: Satya Narayan Mandal
- **leader since2**: 2017
- **party2**: Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
- **leaders seat2**: Not contesting
- **last election2**: 16.25%
22 seats
- **seats before2**: 8
- **seats after2**: 23
- **seat change2**: 15
- **image3**:
- **leader3**: Saroj Kumar Yadav
- **leader since3**: 2017
- **party3**: People's Socialist Party, Nepal (2020)
- **leaders seat3**: Bara 1 (constituency), Bara 1(B)
- **last election3**: _New Party_
- **seats before3**: 39
- **seats after3**: 16
- **seat change3**: 23
- **image4**:
- **leader4**: Mahesh Prasad Yadav
- **leader since4**: 2022
- **party4**: Janamat Party
- **leaders seat4**: Saptari 2, Saptari 2(B)
- **last election4**: _New Party_
- **seats before4**: 0
- **seats after4**: 13
- **seat change4**: 13
- **image5**:
- **leader5**: Bharat Prasad Sah
- **leader since5**: 2021
- **party5**: Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)
- **leaders seat5**: Mahottari 1, Mahottari 1(B)
- **last election5**: 11.88%
11 seats
- **seats before5**: 8
- **seats after5**: 8
- **image6**:
- **leader6**: Satrudhan Mahato
- **leader since6**: 2021
- **party6**: Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist)
- **leaders seat6**: Dhanusha 4, Dhanusha 4(B)
- **last election6**: _New Party_
- **seats before6**: 13
- **seats after6**: 7
- **seat change6**: 6
- **image7**:
- **leader7**: Jitendra Prasad Sonal
- **leader since7**: 2021
- **party7**: Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal
- **leaders seat7**: Bara 4, Bara 4(B)
- **last election7**: _New Party_
- **seats before7**: 16
- **seats after7**: 9
- **seat change7**: 7
- **image8**:
- **leader8**: Bharat Giri
- **leader since8**: 2022
- **party8**: Rastriya Prajatantra Party
- **leaders seat8**: Not contesting
- **seats before8**: 0
- **seats after8**: 1
- **seat change8**: 1
- **map image**: Nepal Madhesh adm location map.svg
- **map size**: 300px
- **title**: Chief Minister of Madhesh Province, Chief Minister
- **before election**: Mohammad Lalbabu Raut
- **after election**: **Saroj Yadav**
- **before party**: People's Socialist Party, Nepal (2020), PSP-N
- **after party**: **People's Socialist Party, Nepal (2020), PSP-N**
- **ongoing**: no