Rasuwa 1 (constituency) explained

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

Incorporated areas

Rasuwa 1 incorporates the entirety of Rasuwa District.

Assembly segments

It encompasses the following Bagmati Province Provincial Assembly segment

• Rasuwa 1(A)
• Rasuwa 1(B)

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1991	Ram Krishna Upadhyaya	Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Chand)
	1992		Rastriya Prajatantra Party
	1997		Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Chand)
	1999	Dil Bahadur Lama	Nepali Congress
	2008	Prem Bahadur Tamang	CPN (Maoist)
	January 2009		UCPN (Maoist)
	2013	Janardhan Dhakal	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
	2017	Mohan Acharya	Nepali Congress

1(B)

Election		Member	Party
	2017	Prem Bahadur Tamang	Naya Shakti Party, Nepal
	May 2019		Samajbadi Party, Nepal
	April 2020		People's Socialist Party, Nepal

Election results

Election in the 2020s

2022 general election

Election in the 2010s

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Mohan Acharya	14,453
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Jarnardhan Dhakal	10,278
	Others		211
Result		Congress gain
Source: Election Commission

1(A)

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Prabhat Tamang	6,976
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Kanaryal Tamang	5,152
	Others		236
Result		Congress gain
Source: Election Commission

1(B)

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Naya Shakti Party, Nepal	Prem Bahadur Tamang	7,040
	CPN (Maoist Centre)	Indra Prasad Gotamae	5,692
	Others		116
Result		Naya Shakti gain
Source: Election Commission

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Janardhan Dhakal	6,628
	UCPN (Maoist)	Prem Bahadur Tamang	6,192
	Nepali Congress	Lama Karpu Tamang	4,948
	Others		864
Result		CPN (UML) gain
Source: NepalNews[2]

Election in the 2000s

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Maoist)	Prem Bahadur Tamang	11,147
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Madhav Prasad Aryal	4,604
	Nepali Congress	Bal Chandra Paudel	3,612
	Others		1,163
Result		Maoist gain
Source: Election Commission[3]

Election in the 1990s

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Dil Bahadur Lama	6,424
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Subba Lama	6,357
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Chand)	Ram Krishna Acharya	2,880
	Others		1,933
Invalid Votes			1,454
Result		Congress gain
Source: Election Commission[4] [5]

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	Ram Krishna Acharya	9,175
	Nepali Congress	Bal Chandra Paudel	7,232
Result		RPP hold
Source: Election Commission

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Chand)	Ram Krishna Acharya	7,292
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Nurbu Chirring Tamang	4,717
Result		RPP (C) gain
Source: http://nepalresearch.org/politics/background/elections_old/election_1991_constituency_results_english.pdf

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies of Nepal

External links

• Constituency map of Rasuwa

Notes and References

1. News: CDC submits its report with 165 electoral constituencies. en. 2018-04-25.
2. Web site: 2015-03-25. Nepalnews.com - News from Nepal as it happens. 2020-11-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20150325225411/http://vote.nepalnews.com/election/pages/bhaktapur.php#top. 2015-03-25.
3. Web site: 2009-10-03. Ca Election report. 2020-11-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20091003184536/http://www.election.gov.np/reports/CAResults/reportBody.php. 2009-10-03.
4. Web site: 2008-01-24. Finalised Constituencies With Top Two Candidates. 2020-11-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20080124110554/http://www.election-commission.org.np/toptwo.php. 2008-01-24.
5. Web site: Election Results'99. 2020-11-15. nepalresearch.org.