Ramkot falls within the Kathmandu 9 parliamentary constituency. As of the 2017 national elections, the constituency is represented in the House of Representatives by Krishna Gopal Shrestha of the Nepal Communist Party. Before the 2017 elections, the constituency was represented by Dhyan Govinda Ranjit of the Nepali Congress party, who was elected as a member of Nepalese Constituent Assembly in the 2013 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election.[9]