Nawalparasi (Bardaghat Susta West) 1 (constituency)

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.^[1]

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

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: [2]

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