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{{Short description|Nepali politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Gyanendra Bahadur Karki
| native_name_lang = ne
| native_name = ज्ञानेन्द्र बहादुर कार्की
| image = Nepali Minister Gyanendra Bahadur Karki - 2017 (37086219821) (cropped).jpg
| caption = Karki in Washington, DC in 2017
| office1 = [[Ministry of Finance (Nepal)|Minister of Finance of Nepal]]
| term_start1 = 7 June 2017
| term_end1 = 15 February 2018<ref name="thehimalayantimes">{{cite web|url=https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/prime-minister-sher-bahadur-deuba-sworns-in/|publisher=thehimalayantimes.com|title=Sher Bahadur Deuba sworn in as Prime Minister|access-date=2017-06-11}}</ref>
| president1 = [[Bidhya Devi Bhandari]]
| primeminister1 = [[Sher Bahadur Deuba]]
| predecessor1 = [[Krishna Bahadur Mahara]]
| successor1 = [[Yuba Raj Khatiwada]]
| office2 = [[Ministry of Information and Communications (Nepal)|Minister of Communication<br/>and Information Technology of Nepal]]
| term_start2 = 8 October 2021
| term_end2 = 26 December 2022
| president2 = [[Bidhya Devi Bhandari]]
| primeminister2 = [[Sher Bahadur Deuba]]
| predecessor2 = [[Lila Nath Shrestha]]
| successor2 = [[Rekha Sharma]]
| office3 = [[Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs (Nepal)|Minister of Law, Justice and<br/>Parliamentary Affairs of Nepal]]
| term_start3 = 13 July 2021
| term_end3 = 8 October 2021
| president3 = [[Bidhya Devi Bhandari]]
| primeminister3 = [[Sher Bahadur Deuba]]
| predecessor3 = [[Lilanath Shrestha]]
| successor3 = [[Dilendra Prasad Badu]]
| office5 = [[Pratinidhi Sabha|Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha]]
| term_start5 = 4 March 2018
| term_end5 =
| predecessor5 = [[Sitaram Mahato]]
| successor5 =
| constituency5 = [[Sunsari 4 (constituency)|Sunsari 4]]
| office6 = [[2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly|Member of Constituent Assembly]] for<br/>[[Nepali Congress]] [[party list]]
| term_start6 = 21 January 2014
| term_end6 = 14 October 2017
| party = [[Nepali Congress]]
| otherparty = [[Nepali Congress (Democratic)]]
| spouse = Nabina Rana Karki <ref>[https://thehimalayantimes.com/kathmandu/nepali-congress-leader-gyanedra-bahadur-karki-bereaved-of-wife/ The Himalayan Times]</ref>
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|2|22|df=y}}{{fact|date=June 2022}}
| honorific_prefix = Honourable
| honorific_suffix = MP
}}
'''Gyanendra Bahadur Karki''' ([[Nepali language|Nepali]]:ज्ञानेन्द्र बहादुर कार्की) is a [[Nepalis|Nepali]] politician from [[Nepali Congress]]. He is the former [[Ministry of Information and Communications (Nepal)|Minister for Information and Communications of Nepal]]. He was Finance Minister under [[Deuba cabinet, 2017]].<ref name="ekantipur">{{cite web|url=http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2017-06-07/president-bhandari-administers-oath-of-office-secrecy-to-deuba.html|publisher=kathmandupost.ekantipur.com|title=Deuba sworn in as 40th PM, forms Cabinet by inducting 7 ministers – National – The Kathmandu Post|access-date=2017-06-11}}</ref> He has been elected as a House of Representative from constituency 4 of the [[Sunsari]] district in [[2017 Nepalese legislative election]].<ref>[https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/finance-minister-gyanendra-bahadur-karki-elected-sunsari-4/ The Himalayan Times]</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2021-07-14|title=देउवा सरकारको ४ मन्त्रीहरुको बायोडाटा|url=https://www.news24nepal.tv/2021/07/14/795909|access-date=2021-07-14|website=News24 : Premium News Channel|language=en|archive-date=2021-07-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714095936/https://www.news24nepal.tv/2021/07/14/795909|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Political life ==
Karki, who was born in Bhojpur in 1957 AD, entered party politics through the Nepal Students Union. Karki, became the president of the [[Nepal Student Union|Nepal Student's Union]] in 2039 BS succeeding former [[Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal|Deputy PM]] and [[Nepali Congress|NC]] Vice-president [[Bimalendra Nidhi]] in the post. Karki was a confidant of [[Krishna Prasad Bhattarai]]. Karki, who was earlier in charge of the [[Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation (Nepal)|Ministry of Water Resources]] and [[Ministry of Finance (Nepal)|Finance]], is now in charge of the [[Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs (Nepal)|Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs]].<ref name=":0" />

== Electoral history ==
Gyanendra Bahadur Karki won the [[2017 Nepalese general election|2017 Nepalese General Election]] from Sunsari-4. Previously, he lost thrice from Bhojpur-1 and that too with few hundred votes which can be seen below. In [[2013 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election|2013 Constituent Assembly election]], Karki didn't contest the election and was made MP from [[Proportional representation|Proportional list]] of [[Nepali Congress]].

=== Election in the 2010s ===

==== [[2017 Nepalese legislative election|2017 legislative elections]] ====
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="4" |[[Sunsari 4 (constituency)|Sunsari-4]]
|-
! colspan="2" |Party
!Candidate
!Votes
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Nepali Congress}}" |
|[[Nepali Congress]]
|Gyanendra Bahadur Karki
|32,347
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)}}" |
|[[Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)]]
|Ramesh Shrestha
|25,750
|-
| style="background-color:#ffb300" |
|[[Rastriya Janata Party Nepal]]
|Ram Narayan Yadav
|5,020
|-
| style="background-color:#c21e56" |
|[[Nepali Janata Dal]]
|Sitaram Podar
|1,089
|-
| style="background-color:indianred" |
|[[Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) (2002)|CPN (Marxist–Leninist)]]
|Santosh Kumar Dahal
|1,037
|-
|
| colspan="2" |Others
|3,073
|-
| colspan="3" |Invalid votes
|7,062
|-
! colspan="2" |Result
! colspan="2" |Congress hold
|-
| colspan="4" |Source: [https://result.election.gov.np/ElectionResultCentral.aspx Election Commission]
|}

=== Election in the 2000s ===

==== [[2008 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election|2008 Constituent Assembly election]] ====
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="4" |[[Bhojpur 1 (constituency)|Bhojpur-1]]
|-
! colspan="2" |Party
!Candidate
!Votes
|-
| style="background-color:darkred" |
|[[Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)|CPN (Maoist)]]
|Padam Bahadur Rai
|15,796
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Nepali Congress}}" |
|[[Nepali Congress]]
|Gyanendra Bahadur Karki
|13,582
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)}}" |
|[[CPN (UML)|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)]]
|Jayant Rai
|7,515
|-
|
|Others
|
|2,241
|-
| colspan="3" |Invalid votes
|2,537
|-
! colspan="2" |Result
! colspan="2" |Maoist gain
|-
| colspan="4" |Source: Election Commission<ref>{{Cite web|date=2009-10-03|title=Ca Election report|url=http://www.election.gov.np/reports/CAResults/reportBody.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003184536/http://www.election.gov.np/reports/CAResults/reportBody.php|archive-date=2009-10-03|access-date=2020-11-15}}</ref>
|}

=== Election in the 1990s ===

==== [[1999 Nepalese legislative election|1999 legislative elections]] ====
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="4" |[[Bhojpur 1 (constituency)|Bhojpur-1]]
|-
! colspan="2" |Party
!Candidate
!Votes
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)}}" |
|[[CPN (UML)|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)]]
|Ghanendra Basnet
|15,443
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Nepali Congress}}" |
|[[Nepali Congress]]
|Gyanendra Bahadur Karki
|14,605
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Independent}}" |
|[[Independent politician|Independent]]
|Mukund Bahadur Basnet
|5,586
|-
| style="background-color:indianred" |
|[[Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) (1998)|CPN (Marxist–Leninist)]]
|Narendra Basnet
|4,048
|-
|
|[[Janamukti Party Nepal]]
|Jagan Bahadur Rai
|1,615
|-
|
| colspan="2" |Others
|1,133
|-
| colspan="3" |Invalid Votes
|1,058
|-
! colspan="2" |Result
! colspan="2" |CPN (UML) hold
|-
| colspan="4" |Source: Election Commission<ref name="archive">{{Cite web|date=2008-01-24|title=Finalised Constituencies With Top Two Candidates|url=http://www.election-commission.org.np/toptwo.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080124110554/http://www.election-commission.org.np/toptwo.php|archive-date=2008-01-24|access-date=2020-11-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Election Results'99|url=https://nepalresearch.org/politics/background/elections_old/ec/alldistconst.htm|access-date=2020-11-15|website=nepalresearch.org}}</ref>
|}

==== [[1994 Nepalese legislative election|1994 legislative elections]] ====
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="4" |[[Bhojpur 1 (constituency)|Bhojpur-1]]
|-
! colspan="2" |Party
!Candidate
!Votes
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Nepal Communist Party}}" |
|[[CPN (UML)|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)]]
|Hem Raj Rai
|15,974
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Nepali Congress}}" |
|[[Nepali Congress]]
|Gyanendra Bahadur Karki
|15,948
|-
| style="background-color:gold" |
|[[Rastriya Prajatantra Party]]
|Babu Ram Basnet
|3,496
|-
|
| colspan="2" |Others
|1,654
|-
! colspan="2" |Result
! colspan="2" |CPN (UML) hold
|-
| colspan="4" |Source: Election Commission<ref name="archive" />
|}

== References ==
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