Nepali Janata Dal

Political party in Nepal

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Nepali Janata Dal is a political party in Nepal. The party was established in 1995 as the United People's Party. The party identifies itself as progressive, nationalist and socialist.^[2]

Hari Charan Shah is the party chairman, Kabiraj Timilsina the vice-Chairman, Dipak Raj Pandey the General secretary. In total, the Central Committee of the party has 41 members.^[2]

In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election, the NJD won two seats through the proportional representation vote.^[3] It got 48990 PR votes (0.46%).^[4] The party selected Vishwanath Prasad Agrawal and Gayatri Shah as its representatives in the assembly.^[5] Gayatri Shah was the nominated parliamentary leader of the party.

Electoral performance

Nepalese Legislative Elections

Election	Leader	Votes		Seats		Position	Resulting government
Election	Leader	#	%	#	+/-	Position	Resulting government
2008	Hari Charan Shah	48,990	0.46	2 / 575		18th	CPN (Maoist)–CPN (UML)–MJFN
2013	Hari Charan Shah	33,203	0.35	1 / 575	1	23rd	Congress–CPN (UML)–RPP
2017	Hari Charan Shah	22,049	0.23	0 / 275	1	16th	CPN (UML)–CPN (Maoist Centre)

References

^ United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) : Activities » Activities Update » Activity Details Archived 2008-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b ^c result.nepalelectionportal.org/parties.php?val=18
^ [1]^{[dead link]}
^ http://www.nepalresearch.org/politics/background/pr_votes.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ [2]^{[dead link]}

Political parties in Nepal

Federal parliament

National parties	Nepali Congress Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) Rastriya Swatantra Party Rastriya Prajatantra Party People's Socialist Party Janamat Party People's Socialist Party, Nepal
Independents	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Nepal Nagrik Unmukti Party Nepal Workers Peasants Party Rastriya Janamorcha