Chitwan 3 (constituency)

Chitwan 3
Parliamentary constituency
Chitwan 3 in Bagmati Province
Province	Bagmati Province
District	Chitwan District
Current constituency
Created	1991
Party	Nepal Communist Party
Member of Parliament	Pushpa Kamal Dahal

Chitwan 3 is one of three parliamentary constituencies of Chitwan District in Nepal. This constituency came into existence on the Constituency Delimitation Commission (CDC) report submitted on 31 August 2017.^[1]

Incorporated areas

Chitwan 3 parliamentary constituency incorporates Madi Municipality and wards 6–9, and 13–28 of Bharatpur Metropolitan City.

Assembly segments

It encompasses the following Bagmati Provincial Assembly segment

Chitwan 3(A)
Chitwan 3(B)

Members of Parliament

Parliament/Constituent Assembly

	Member	Party
1991	Amik Sherchan	Samyukta Janamorcha Nepal
1999	Dr. Gangadhar Lamsal	Nepali Congress
2008	Narayan Prasad Dahal	CPN (Maoist)
January 2009	Narayan Prasad Dahal	UCPN (Maoist)
2013	Krishna Bhakta Pokharel	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
2017	Pushpa Kamal Dahal	CPN (Maoist Centre)
May 2018		Nepal Communist Party
March 2021		CPN (Maoist Centre)
2022	Bikram Pandey	Rastriya Prajatantra Party

Provincial Assembly

3(A)

Election		Member	Party
	2017	Krishna Prasad Bhurtel	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
	May 2018	Krishna Prasad Bhurtel	Nepal Communist Party

3(B)

Election		Member	Party
	2017	Ram Lal Mahato	CPN (Maoist Centre)
	May 2018	Ram Lal Mahato	Nepal Communist Party

Election results

Election in the 2020s

2022 general election


Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Bikram Pandey	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	35,060	39.16
	Bhoj Raj Adhikari	CPN (Maoist Centre)	25,824	28.84
	Jita Baral	Rastriya Swatantra Party	14,843	16.58
	Dinesh Koirala	Independent	12,275	13.71
	Others		1,527	1.71
Total			89,529	100.00

Majority			9,236
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party gain
Source: ^[2]

Election in the 2010s

2017 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Maoist Centre)	Pushpa Kamal Dahal	48,276
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Democratic)	Bikram Pandey	38,935
	CPN (Marxist–Leninist)	Dambar Shrestha	1,587
	Others		1,495
Invalid votes			3,520
Result		Maoist Centre gain
Source: Election Commission

2017 Nepalese provincial elections

Chitwan 3(A)

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Krishna Prasad Bhurtel	24,785
	Nepali Congress	Dinesh Koirala	23,045
	Others		1,244
Invalid votes			1,177
Result		CPN (UML) gain
Source: Election Commission

Chitwan 3(B)

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Maoist Centre)	Ram Lal Mahato	25,061
	Nepali Congress	Sajan Kumar Mahato	15,945
	Others		1,512
Invalid votes			1,006
Result		Maoist Centre gain
Source: Election Commission

2013 Constituent Assembly election

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Krishna Bhakta Pokharel	15,661
	Nepali Congress	Bhim Bahadur Shrestha	13,244
	UCPN (Maoist)	Narayan Prasad Dahal	9,085
	Others		2,659
Result		CPN (UML) gain
Source: NepalNews^[3]

Election in the 2000s

2008 Constituent Assembly election

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Maoist)	Narayan Prasad Dahal	17,804
	Nepali Congress	Maiya Devi Shrestha	11,802
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Devi Prasad Gyawali	8,690
	CPN (Marxist–Leninist)	Khem Nath Regmi	1,901
	Others		1,650
Invalid votes			1,476
Result		Maoist gain
Source: Election Commission^[4]

Election in the 1990s

1999 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Dr. Gangadhar Lamsal	23,265
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Nar Bahadur Khand	14,499
	CPN (Marxist–Leninist)	Shailendra Kumar Piya	5,167
	Others		2,448
Invalid Votes			1,114
Result		Congress hold
Source: Election Commission^[5]^[6]

1994 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Dr. Gangadhar Lamsal	20,327
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Shailendra Kumar Piya	15,177
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	Krishna Kumar Adhikari	2,205
	Others		1,016
Result		Congress gain
Source: Election Commission^[5]

1991 legislative elections

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Samyukta Janamorcha Nepal	Amik Sherchan	22,895
	Nepali Congress	Prithvi Man Gurung	17,805
Result		SJMN gain
Source: [1]

References

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