Nawalparasi (Bardaghat Susta West) 1 (constituency)

Nawalparasi (Bardaghat Susta West) 1
Parliamentary constituency
Nawalarasi (Bardaghat Susta West) 1 in Lumbini Province
Province	Lumbini Province
District	Nawalparasi (West of Bardaghat Susta)
Current constituency
Created	2017
Party	Nepali Congress
Member of Parliament	Binod Chaudhary

Nawalparasi (Bardaghat Susta West) 1 is one of two parliamentary constituencies of Nawalparasi (West of Bardaghat Susta) district in Nepal. This constituency came into existence on the Constituency Delimitation Commission (CDC) report submitted on 31 August 2017.

Incorporated areas

Nawalparasi (Bardaghat Susta West) 1 incorporates Bardaghat Municipality, Susta Rural Municipality, Pratappur Rural Municipality and wards 4, 5, 6 and 7 of Sarawal Rural Municipality.

Assembly segments

It encompasses the following Lumbini Provincial Assembly segment

• Nawalparasi (Bardaghat Susta West) 1(A)
• Nawalparasi (Bardaghat Susta West) 1(B)

Members of Parliament

Parliament/Constituent Assembly

Election		Member	Party
	2017	Hridayesh Tripathi	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
	May 2018		Nepal Communist Party
	December 2021		People's Progressive Party
	2022	Binod Chaudhary	Nepali Congress

Provincial Assembly

1(A)

Election		Member	Party
	2017	Dipendra Kumar Adhikari	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
	May 2018		Nepal Communist Party

1(B)

Election		Member	Party
	2017	Ajay Shahi	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
	May 2018		Nepal Communist Party
	August 2021		People's Progressive Party

Election results

Election in the 2020s

2022 general election

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Binod Chaudhary	Nepali Congress	29,519	37.33
	Hridayesh Tripathi	People's Progressive Party	22,328	28.23
	Mahendra Sen Thakuri	Rastriya Swatantra Party	12,499	15.80
	Gulab Prasad Chaudhary	Janamat Party	5,952	7.53
	Bhojraj Dhakal	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	4,825	6.10
	Ganga Ram Chaudhary	Nagrik Unmukti Party	1,405	1.78
	Ajay Shahi	Independent	1,106	1.40
	Others		1,451	1.83
Total			79,085	100.00
Majority			7,191
	Nepali Congress gain
Source:

Election in the 2010s

2017 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Hridayesh Tripathi	38,592
	Nepali Congress	Devkaran Prasad Kalwar	33,491
	Rastriya Janamukti Party	Sumitra Thapa	1,193
	Rastriya Janata Party Nepal	Arun Kumar Singh Gharti	907
	Others		1,499
Result		CPN (UML) gain
Source: Election Commission

2017 Nepalese provincial elections

1(A)

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Dipendra Kumar Adhikari	20,506
	Nepali Congress	Bikram Khanal	18,502
	Rastriya Janamukti Party	Purna Bahadur Bishwakarma	1,012
	Rastriya Janata Party Nepal	Gulab Prasad Chaudhary	965
	Others		681
Result		CPN (UML) gain
Source: Election Commission

1(B)

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Ajay Shahi	19,333
	Nepali Congress	Mukul Kumar Acharya	12,603
	Rastriya Janata Party Nepal	Asraf Ali Churihar	1,078
	Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal	Ganga Ram Chaudhari	856
	Others		498
Result		CPN (UML) gain
Source: Election Commission

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies of Nepal

External links

• Constituency map of Nawalparasi (Bardaghat Susta West)