Jhapa 1 (constituency)

**Jhapa 1** () 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 1 incorporates Mechinagar Municipality, ward 9 and 10 of Bhadrapur Municipality and wards 4–7 of Buddhashanti Rural Municipality.

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## Assembly segments

It encompasses the following Koshi Provincial Assembly segment
- Jhapa 1(A)
- Jhapa 1(B)

### Parliament/Constituent Assembly

|colspan="2"|Election|Member|Party|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||1991|Drona Prasad Acharya|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)||
|style="background-color:"||1994 by-election|Krishna Prasad Sitaula|Nepali Congress||
|style="background-color:"||1994|Pushpa Raj Pokharel|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)||
|style="background-color:"||1999|Krishna Prasad Sitaula|Nepali Congress||
|rowspan="2" style="background-color:darkred"||2008|rowspan="2"|Dharma Prasad Ghimire|CPN (Maoist)|
|_January 2009_|UCPN (Maoist)|||||
|style="background-color:"||2013|Rabin Koirala|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)||
|style="background-color:"||2017|rowspan="3"|Surendra Kumar Karki|CPN (Maoist Centre)|
|style="background-color:"||_May 2018_|Nepal Communist Party|||
|style="background-color:"||_March 2021_|CPN (Maoist Centre)|||
|style="background-color:"||2022|Bishwa Prakash Sharma|Nepali Congress||

#### 1(A)

|colspan="2"|Election|Member|Party|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||2017|rowspan="3"|Shri Prasad Mainali|CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)|
|style="background-color:"||_May 2018_|Nepal Communist Party|||
|style="background-color:"||_March 2021_|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|||
|style="background-color:"||2022|Gopal Tamang|Nepali Congress||

#### 1(B)

|colspan="2"|Election|Member|Party|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||2017|rowspan="3"||CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)|
|style="background-color:"||_May 2018_|Nepal Communist Party|||
|style="background-color:"||_March 2021_|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|||
|style="background-color:gold"||2022||Rastriya Prajatantra Party||

#### 2017 legislative elections

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:darkred"||CPN (Maoist Centre)|Surendra Kumar Karki|36,173|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|BIshwa Prakash Sharma|33,310|
|style="background-color:mediumblue"||Mongol National Organisation|Santosh Tamang|1,389|
|style="background-color:#ffc0cb"||Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal|Bhakta Bahadur Limbu|1,044|
||colspan="2"|Others|483||
|colspan="3"|Invalid votes|2,667|||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

##### 1(A)

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Shri Prasad Mainali|22,972|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Keshav Raj Pandey|17,240|
|style="background-color:mediumblue"||Mongol National Organisation|Bhaskar Rai|1,153|
||colspan="2"|Others|2,475||
|colspan="3"|Invalid votes|1,509|||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

##### 1(B)

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Gopal Chandra Budhathoki|17,839|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Ashok Kumar Pokharel|9,978|
||colspan="2"|Others|1,791||
|colspan="3"|Invalid votes|933|||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

#### 2013 Constituent Assembly election

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Rabin Koirala|17,229|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Bishwa Prakash Sharma|16,540|
|style="background-color:darkred"||UCPN (Maoist)|Bodh Raj Dahal|6,858|
|style="background-color:pink"||Federal Socialist Party, Nepal|Dhan Prasad Gurung|1,979|
|style="background-color:orange"||Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal|Ashok Subba|1,463|
||colspan="2"|Others|2,351||
|colspan="4"|Source: NepalNews||||

#### 2008 Constituent Assembly election

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:darkred"||CPN (Maoist)|Dharma Prasad Ghimire|15,276|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Narendra Bikram Nemwang|14,283|
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Naresh Kharel|14,028|
|style="background-color:indianred"||CPN (Marxist–Leninist)|Badri Prasad Upreti|1,638|
||Others||3,414||
|colspan="3"|Invalid votes|2,792|||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

#### 1999 legislative elections

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Krishna Prasad Sitaula|17,561|
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Narayan Rajbanshi|15,300|
|style="background-color:gold"||Rastriya Prajatantra Party|Rajendra Prasad Lingden|5,625|
|style="background-color:dodgerblue"||Rastriya Janamukti Party|Gyan Bahadur Imbung|2,708|
|style="background-color:yellowgreen"||Nepal Sadbhawana Party|Surya Narayan Ganesh|2,272|
|style="background-color:indianred"||CPN (Marxist–Leninist)|Dhyan Bahadur Rai|2,168|
|style="background-color:"||Independent|Jagat Bahadur Shrestha|1,417|
||colspan="2"|Others|515||
|colspan="3"|Invalid Votes|1,249|||
|colspan="4"|Source: Election Commission||||

#### 1994 legislative elections

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Pushpa Raj Pokharel|15,652|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Krishna Prasad Sitaula|14,511|
|style="background-color:gold"||Rastriya Prajatantra Party|Devi Raman Bhattarai|5,390|
|style="background-color:yellowgreen"||Nepal Sadbhawana Party|Jivan Singh Rajbanshi|3,869|
|style="background-color:dodgerblue"||Rastriya Janamukti Party|Ram Prasad Chauiwainwa|2,776|
||Independent|Jhatan Singh Rajbanshi|176||
|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)||||

##### 1994 by-election

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Krishna Prasad Sitaula|
|colspan="3"|Source: Election Commission|||

#### 1991 legislative elections

|colspan="2"|Party|Candidate|Votes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background-color:"||CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|Drona Prasad Acharya|13,721|
|style="background-color:"||Nepali Congress|Krishna Prasad Sitaula|9,827|
|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 1
- **type**: Parliamentary
- **map size**: 300
- **map year**: 2017
- **image**: Jhapa1PratinidhiSabha.svg
- **caption**: Jhapa 1 in Koshi Province (Nepal), Koshi Province
- **district label**: Province
- **district**: Koshi Province (Nepal), Koshi Province
- **region label**: District
- **region**: Jhapa District
- **year**: 1991
- **party**: Nepali Congress
- **members label**: Member of Parliament
- **members**: Bishwa Prakash Sharma
- **blank1 name**: Koshi Provincial Assembly, Koshi Province
MPA 1(A)
- **blank1 info**: Gopal Tamang
(Nepali Congress, NC)
- **blank2 name**: Koshi Provincial Assembly, Koshi Province
MPA 1(B)
- **blank2 info**: Sabina Bajagain (Rastriya Prajatantra Party, RPP)
- **incumbent**: Gopal Tamang