Kathmandu 4 (constituency)

Kathmandu 4
Kathmandu 4
Parliamentary constituency; for the House of Representatives
	Kathmandu 4 in Bagmati Province
	Assembly segment Kathmandu 4(A) (red) and Kathmandu 4(B) (blue) within Kathmandu District
Province	Bagmati Province
District	Kathmandu District
Electorate	63,215
Current constituency
Created	1991
Party	Nepali Congress
Member of Parliament	Gagan Thapa

Kathmandu 4 is one of 10 parliamentary constituencies of Kathmandu District in Nepal. This constituency came into existence on the Constituency Delimitation Commission (CDC) report submitted on 31 August 2017.^[1]

Incorporated areas

Kathmandu 4 parliamentary constituency consists of wards 1, 7, 8 and 30 of Kathmandu Metropolitan City and wards 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 of Budhanilkantha Municipality.

Assembly segments

It encompasses the following Bagmati Province Provincial Assembly segment

Kathmandu 4(A)
Kathmandu 4(B)

Members of Parliament

Parliament/Constituent Assembly

	Member	Party
1991	Sahana Pradhan	CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
1994	Padma Ratna Tuladhar	CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
March 1998	Padma Ratna Tuladhar	CPN (Marxist-Leninist)
1999	Prem Lal Singh	Nepali Congress
2008	Suprabha Ghimire
2013	Gagan Thapa
2017
2022

Provincial Assembly

4(A)

Election		Member	Party
	2017	Narottam Baidhya	Nepali Congress

4(B)

	Member	Party
2017	Kusum Kumar Karki	CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
May 2018		Nepal Communist Party
March 2021		CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
August 2021		CPN (Unified Socialist)

Election results

Election in the 2020s

2022 general election


Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Gagan Thapa	Nepali Congress	21,302	48.37
	Rajan Bhattarai	CPN (UML)	13,855	31.46
	Thakur Mohan Shrestha	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	4,050	9.20
	Arjun Kumar Prasai	Independent	2,308	5.24
	Archan Shumsher Rana	Hamro Nepali Party	1,214	2.76
	Others		1,310	2.97
Total			44,039	100.00

Majority			7,447
	Nepali Congress hold
Source: ^[2]

Election in the 2010s

2017 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Gagan Thapa	21,558
	CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)	Rajan Bhattarai	18,140
	Bibeksheel Sajha Party	Subuna Basnet	3,040
	Others		797
Invalid votes			1,054
Result		Congress hold
Source: Election Commission

2017 Nepalese provincial elections

Kathmandu 4(A)

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Narottam Baidhya	8,719
	CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)	Nirmal Kuikel	7,794
	Bibeksheel Sajha Party	Dipesh Shrestha Baidhya	3,517
	Others		269
Invalid votes			390
Result		Congress gain
Source: Election Commission

Kathmandu 4(B)

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)	Kusum Kumar Karki	12,347
	Nepali Congress	Sadhuram Khadka	9,354
	Bibeksheel Sajha Party	Madhusudhan Karki	1,461
	Others		262
Invalid votes			434
Result		CPN (UML)
Source: Election Commission

2013 Constituent Assembly election

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Gagan Thapa	22,336
	CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)	Nirmal Kuikel	9,135
	UCPN (Maoist)	Nanda Kishor Pun	6,462
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal	Udhhav Paudel	3,263
	Others		2,335
Result		Congress hold
Source: Election Commission

Election in the 2000s

2008 Constituent Assembly election

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Suprabha Ghimire	13,451
	CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)	Bidya Devi Bhandari	9,842
	CPN (Maoist)	Pawan Man Shrestha	9,225
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal	Raju Aryal	1,631
	Others		3,422
Invalid votes			1,477
Result		Congress hold
Source: Election Commission^[3]

Election in the 1990s

1999 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Prem Lal Singh	12,554
	CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)	Bharat Kumar Pradhan	7,269
	Independent	Marich Man Singh Shrestha	6,531
	CPN (Marxist–Leninist)	Padma Ratna Tuladhar	5,340
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	Pankaj Pradhan	1,012
	Others		348
	Invalid Votes		703
Result		Congress gain
Source: Election Commission^[4]^[5]

1994 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)	Padma Ratna Tuladhar	17,926
	Nepali Congress	Krishna Amatya	9,337
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	Indira Shrestha	4,120
	Others		403
Result		CPN (UML) hold
Source: Election Commission^[4]

1991 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist)	Sahana Pradhan	28,630
	Nepali Congress	Prakash Man Singh	19,504
Result		CPN (UML) gain
Source: [1]

References

^ "CDC submits its report with 165 electoral constituencies". Retrieved 2018-04-25.
^ "प्रतिनिधि सभा सदस्य निर्वाचनमा उम्मेदवारहरुको सुची". Election Commission of Nepal.
^ "Ca Election report". 2009-10-03. Archived from the original on 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
^ ^a ^b "Finalised Constituencies With Top Two Candidates". 2008-01-24. Archived from the original on 2008-01-24. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
^ "Election Results'99". nepalresearch.org. Retrieved 2020-11-15.

External links

Constituency map of Kathmandu

[1] "CDC submits its report with 165 electoral constituencies". Retrieved 2018-04-25.

[2022el-2] "प्रतिनिधि सभा सदस्य निर्वाचनमा उम्मेदवारहरुको सुची". Election Commission of Nepal.

[3] "Ca Election report". 2009-10-03. Archived from the original on 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2020-11-15.

[archive-4] "Finalised Constituencies With Top Two Candidates". 2008-01-24. Archived from the original on 2008-01-24. Retrieved 2020-11-15.

[5] "Election Results'99". nepalresearch.org. Retrieved 2020-11-15.

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