Kathmandu 8 (constituency)

Kathmandu 8
Kathmandu 8
Parliamentary Constituency; for the House of Representatives
	Kathmandu 8 in Bagmati Province
	Assembly segment Kathmandu 8(A) (red) and Kathmandu 8(B) (blue) within Kathmandu District
Province	Bagmati Province
District	Kathmandu District
Electorate	50,088
Current constituency
Created	2008
Party	Nepal Communist Party
Member of Parliament	Jeevan Ram Shrestha

Kathmandu 8 is one of 10 parliamentary constituencies of Kathmandu District in Nepal. This constituency came into existence on the Constituency Delimitation Commission (CDC) report submitted on 31 August 2017.^[1]

Incorporated areas[]

Kathmandu 8 parliamentary constituency consists of wards 13, 15, 19, 20, 23 and 24 of Kathmandu Metropolitan City and wards 4 and 5 of Nagarjun Municipality.

Assembly segments[]

It encompasses the following Bagmati Province Provincial Assembly segment

Kathmandu 8(A)
Kathmandu 8(B)

Members of Parliament[]

Parliament/Constituent Assembly[]

	Member	Party
2008	Nabindra Raj Joshi	Nepali Congress
2017	Jeevan Ram Shrestha	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
May 2018	Jeevan Ram Shrestha	Nepal Communist Party

Provincial Assembly[]

8(A)[]

Election		Member	Party
	2017	Rajesh Shakya	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
	May 2018	Rajesh Shakya	Nepal Communist Party

8(B)[]

Election		Member	Party
	2017	Astha Laxmi Sakya	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
	May 2018	Astha Laxmi Sakya	Nepal Communist Party

Election results[]

Election in the 2010s[]

2017 legislative elections[]

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Jeevan Ram Shrestha	13,397
	Nepali Congress	Nabindra Raj Joshi	12,963
	Bibeksheel Sajha Party	Pukar Bam	4,414
	Others		1,327
Invalid votes			9,80
Result		CPN (UML) gain
Source: Election Commission

2017 Nepalese provincial elections[]

Kathmandu 8(A)[]

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Rajesh Shakya	7,780
	Nepali Congress	Rajya Laxmi Shrestha	6,176
	Bibeksheel Sajha Party	Anil Tuladhar	3,257
	Others		1,507
Invalid votes			439
Result		CPN (UML) gain
Source: Election Commission

Kathmandu 8(B)[]

Party		Candidate	Votes
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Astha Laxmi Sakya	5,169
	Nepali Congress	Dev Ratna Dangol	3,669
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	Prakash Rimal	2,621
	Bibeksheel Sajha Party	Shyam Krishna Shakya	1,273
	Others		542
Invalid votes			345
Result		CPN (UML) gain
Source: Election Commission

2013 Constituent Assembly election[]

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Nabindra Raj Joshi	13,774
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Jeevan Ram Shrestha	6,367
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal	Prakash Rimal	4,938
	UCPN (Maoist)	Mukti Narayan Pradhan	2,765
	Federal Socialist Party, Nepal	Pabitra Bajracharya	2,492
	Nepa Rastriya Party	Naresh Bir Shakya	1,556
	Others		2,391
Result		Congress hold
Source: Election Commission^[2]

Election in the 2000s[]

2008 Constituent Assembly election[]

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Nepali Congress	Nabindra Raj Joshi	11,005
	CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	Astha Laxmi Sakya	6,878
	CPN (Maoist)	Sarbottam Dangol	6,573
	Nepa Rastriya Party	Naresh Bir Shakya	3,975
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal	Bikram Bahadur Thapa	2,093
	Others		2,424
Invalid votes			1,550
Result		Congress gain
Source: Election Commission

References[]

^ "CDC submits its report with 165 electoral constituencies". Retrieved 2018-04-25.
^ "Nepalnews.com - News from Nepal as it happens". 2015-03-25. Archived from the original on 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2020-11-23.

External links[]

Constituency map of Kathmandu

[1] "CDC submits its report with 165 electoral constituencies". Retrieved 2018-04-25.

[2] "Nepalnews.com - News from Nepal as it happens". 2015-03-25. Archived from the original on 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2020-11-23.

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