title: Dang 3 (constituency)
text: # Dang 3 (constituency)
  
  Dang 3 one of three parliamentary constituencies of Dang District in Nepal. This constituency came into existence on the Constituency Delimitation Commission (CDC) report submitted on 31 August 2017.
  
  ## Incorporated areas
  
  Dang 3 incorporates Babai Rural Municipality, Shantinagar Rural Municipality, Dangisharan Rural Municipality, and wards 1–15 of Tulsipur Sub-metropolitan City.
  
  ## Assembly segments
  
  It encompasses the following Lumbini Provincial Assembly segment
  
  * Dang 3(A)
  * Dang 3(B)
  
  ## Members of Parliament
  
  ### Parliament/Constituent Assembly
  
  | Election | Member | Party |
  | - | - | - |
  | 1991 | Khum Bahadur Khadka | Nepali Congress |
  | 1994 | Shankar Pokharel | CPN (Unified Marxist- Leninist) |
  | 1999 | Krishna Kishor Ghimire | Nepali Congress |
  | 2008 | Krishna Bahadur Mahara | CPN (Maoist) |
  | January 2009 | Krishna Bahadur Mahara | UCPN (Maoist) |
  | 2013 | Raju Khanal | Nepali Congress |
  | 2017 | Hira Chandra K.C. | CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) |
  | May 2018 | Hira Chandra K.C. | Nepal Communist Party |
  | March 2021 | Hira Chandra K.C. | CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) |
  | August 2021 | Hira Chandra K.C. | CPN (Unified Socialist) |
  | 2022 | Deepak Giri | Nepali Congress |
  
  ## Election results
  
  ### Election in the 2020s
  
  **2022 general election**
  
  | Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Deepak Giri | Nepali Congress | 36,911 | 43.37 |
  | | Komal Oli | CPN (UML) | 29,092 | 34.18 |
  | | Kamal Subedi | Rastriya Swatantra Party | 15,326 | 18.01 |
  | | Oj Bahadur Khadka | Rastriya Prajatantra Party | 1,536 | 1.80 |
  | | Others | | 2,247 | 2.64 |
  | Total | Total | Total | 85,112 | 100.00 |
  | Majority | Majority | Majority | 7,819 | |
  | | Nepali Congress gain | Nepali Congress gain | Nepali Congress gain | Nepali Congress gain |
  | Source: |||||
  
  ### Election in the 2010s
  
  **2019 by-elections**
  
  **3(B)**
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | Nepal Communist Party | Bimala Kumari Khatri | 24,286 |
  | | Nepali Congress | Keshav Raj Acharya | 19,182 |
  | | Others | Others | 1,036 |
  | Invalid votes | Invalid votes | Invalid votes | 797 |
  | Result | Result | NCP hold | NCP hold |
  | Source: Election Commission ||||
  
  **2017 legislative elections**
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) | Hira Chandra K.C. | 40,287 |
  | | Nepali Congress | Deepak Giri | 33,730 |
  | | CPN (Marxist–Leninist) | Him Lal Chaudhary | 1,409 |
  | | Others | Others | 1,080 |
  | Invalid votes | Invalid votes | Invalid votes | 4,428 |
  | Result | Result | CPN (UML) gain | CPN (UML) gain |
  | Source: Election Commission ||||
  
  **2013 Constituent Assembly election**
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | Nepali Congress | Raju Khanal | 15,048 |
  | | CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) | Laxman Acharya | 7,942 |
  | | UCPN (Maoist) | Nirmal Acharya | 7,408 |
  | | Others | Others | 4,048 |
  | Result | Result | Congress gain | Congress gain |
  | Source: NepalNews ||||
  
  ### Election in the 2000s
  
  **2008 Constituent Assembly election**
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | CPN (Maoist) | Krishna Bahadur Mahara | 20,784 |
  | | Nepali Congress | Anita Devkota | 10,812 |
  | | CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) | Chhabi Lal Oli | 4,879 |
  | | CPN (Marxist–Leninist) | Mangal Prasad Chaudhary | 3,337 |
  | | Rastriya Prajatantra Party | Dinesh Bahadur Neupane | 1,157 |
  | | Others | | 1,334 |
  | Invalid votes | Invalid votes | Invalid votes | 2,113 |
  | Result | Result | Maoist gain | Maoist gain |
  | Source: Election Commission ||||
  
  ### Election in the 1990s
  
  **1999 legislative elections**
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | Nepali Congress | Krishna Kishor Ghimire | 19,072 |
  | | CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) | Shankar Pokharel | 11,647 |
  | | CPN (Marxist–Leninist) | Giri Raj K.C. | 8,085 |
  | | Rastriya Prajatantra Party | Shovakar Thapa | 1,121 |
  | | Others | Others | 662 |
  | Invalid votes | Invalid votes | Invalid votes | 196 |
  | Result | Result | Congress gain | Congress gain |
  | Source: Election Commission ||||
  
  **1994 legislative elections**
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) | Shankar Pokharel | 19,366 |
  | | Nepali Congress | Deepak Giri | 16,351 |
  | | Rastriya Prajatantra Party | Goma Giri | 1,481 |
  | | Others | Others | 414 |
  | Result | Result | CPN (UML) gain | CPN (UML) gain |
  | Source: Election Commission ||||
  
  **1991 legislative elections**
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | Nepali Congress | Khum Bahadur Khadka | 24,105 |
  | | CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) | | 14,594 |
  | Result | Result | Congress gain | Congress gain |
  | Source: ||||
  