Jajarkot 1 (constituency)

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

Jajarkot 1
Parliamentary constituency
for the House of Representatives
Jajarkot 1 in Karnali Province
Assembly segments Jajarkot 1(A) (red) and Jajarkot 1(B) (blue) within Jajarkot District
ProvinceKarnali Province
DistrictJajarkot District
Electorate83,937
Current constituency
Created1991
Number of members3
Member of
Parliament		Shakti Basnet,
Maoist Centre
Karnali
MPA 1(A)		Bedraj Singh,
Congress
Karnali
MPA 1(B)		Rajeev Bikram Shah,
Congress

Incorporated areas

Jajarkot 1 incorporates the entirety of Jajarkot District.

Assembly segments

It encompasses the following Karnali Provincial Assembly segment

  • Jajarkot 1(A)
  • Jajarkot 1(B)

Members of Parliament

Parliament/Constituent Assembly
Election Member Party
1991 Dwarika Prasad Pradhan Nepali Congress
1994 Jhalak Nath Wagle
1999 Govinda Bikram Shah Rastriya Prajatantra Party
2008 Kali Bahadur Malla CPN (Maoist)
January 2009 UCPN (Maoist)
2013 Shakti Bahadur Basnet
May 2016 CPN (Maoist Centre)
May 2018 Nepal Communist Party
March 2021 CPN (Maoist Centre)

Provincial Assembly

Election results

2022 general election
CandidatePartyVotes%
Shakti Bahadur BasnetCPN (Maoist Centre)34,15155.41
Niraj Prasad AcharyaCPN (UML)25,12040.75
Nar Bahadur KarkiIndependent1,1911.93
Others1,1751.91
Total61,637100.00
Majority9,031
CPN (Maoist Centre) hold
Source: [2]

2022 provincial election

2017 general election
CandidatePartyVotes%
Shakti Bahadur BasnetCPN (Maoist Centre)32,28156.81
Rajeev Bikram ShahNepali Congress23,28940.98
Others1,2542.21
Total56,824100.00
Valid votes56,82493.51
Invalid/blank votes3,9416.49
Total votes60,765100.00
Registered voters/turnout83,93772.39
Majority8,992
CPN (Maoist Centre) hold
Source: Election Commission[3]

2017 provincial election

2013 Constituent Assembly election
CandidatePartyVotes%
Shakti Bahadur BasnetUCPN (Maoist)8,07331.06
Dambar Bahadur SinghCPN (UML)7,55329.06
Deepak Jung ShahNepali Congress7,31728.15
Govinda Bikram ShahRastriya Prajatantra Party1,8407.08
Others1,2114.66
Total25,994100.00
Valid votes25,99495.62
Invalid/blank votes1,1914.38
Total votes27,185100.00
Registered voters/turnout32,96582.47
Majority520
UCPN (Maoist) hold
Source: Election Commission[5][6][7]

2008 Constituent Assembly election
CandidatePartyVotes%
Kali Bahadur MallaCPN (Maoist)19,00954.35
Rita RawalCPN (UML)6,22317.79
Chinta Kumari WagleNepali Congress5,83816.69
Govinda Bikram ShahRastriya Prajatantra Party2,9088.31
Others9962.85
Total34,974100.00
Valid votes34,97496.21
Invalid/blank votes1,3783.79
Total votes36,352100.00
Registered voters/turnout52,41069.36
Majority12,786
CPN (Maoist) gain
Source: Election Commission[8]

1999 general election
CandidatePartyVotes%
Govinda Bikram ShahRastriya Prajatantra Party8,45233.51
Krishna Bahadur ShahiCPN (UML)7,67630.44
Jhalak Nath WagleNepali Congress4,01115.90
Sanat Kumar KarkiIndependent3,23012.81
Khamba Prasad TokayaCPN (Marxist–Leninist)1,0674.23
Others7833.10
Total25,219100.00
Valid votes25,21997.34
Invalid/blank votes6902.66
Total votes25,909100.00
Registered voters/turnout40,33264.24
Majority776
Rastriya Prajatantra Party gain
Source: Election Commission[9][10]

1994 general election
CandidatePartyVotes%
Jhalak Nath WagleNepali Congress7,63635.59
Tej Bikram ShahRastriya Prajatantra Party6,84931.92
Gopal RokayaCPN (UML)3,50016.31
Balram ShahIndependent3,46916.17
Total21,454100.00
Majority787
Nepali Congress hold
Source: Election Commission[9][11]

1991 general election
CandidatePartyVotes%
Dwarika Prasad PradhanNepali Congress5,03353.28
-Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Thapa)4,41346.72
Total9,446100.00
Majority620
Nepali Congress gain
Source: [12]

See also

References
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  11. "Auswertung der Wahlergebnisse vom 15. November 1994" [Evaluation of the results of the 15 November 1994 election] (PDF). Nepal Research (in German). Retrieved 18 December 2022.
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