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{{short description|Nepalese politician|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = [[Honourable]]
| name = Uma Kanta Chaudhary
| native_name = उमा कान्त चौधरी
| office =Deputy General Secretary of [[Nepali Congress]]
| term_start = 17 December 2021
| term_end =
| successor =
| predecessor =[[Prakash Sharan Mahat]]
| office1 = Minister for [[Ministry of Water Supply (Nepal)|Water Supply]]
| term_start1 = 8 October 2021
| term_end1 =
| president1 = [[Bidhya Devi Bhandari]]
| primeminister1 = [[Sher Bahadur Deuba]]
| office2 = Member of [[House of Representatives (Nepal)|House of Representatives]]
| term_start2 = 2017
| term_end2 =
| president2 = [[Bidya Devi Bhandari]]
| primeminister2 = [[Sher Bahadur Deuba]]
| constituency2 = [[Bara 1]]
| party = [[Nepali Congress]]
| nationality = [[Nepal]]i
| birth_place = [[Bara District|Bara]], [[Province No. 2]], [[Nepal]]
}}

'''Uma Kanta Chaudhary''' ({{lang-ne|उमाकान्त चौधरी}}) is a [[Nepal]]ese politician and the current minister for [[Ministry of Water Supply (Nepal)|Water Supply]] of Nepal.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Council of Ministers {{!}} Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers|url=https://www.opmcm.gov.np/en/cabinet/|access-date=2021-12-17|language=en-US}}</ref> He was elected to the [[Pratinidhi Sabha]] in the [[2017 Nepalese legislative election|2017 election]] on behalf of the [[Nepali Congress]].<ref>[http://www.election-commission.org.np/toptwo.php Election Commission of Nepal] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061012034141/http://www.election-commission.org.np/toptwo.php |date=October 12, 2006 }}</ref>

He was appointed in 2004 as minister of state for agriculture and cooperation. In 2009 he became Health Minister. He hails from Bara and elected from [[Bara 1 (constituency)|Bara 1]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=निर्वाचन मतगणनाको परिणाम|url=https://result.election.gov.np/ElectionResultCentral.aspx|access-date=2021-12-17|website=result.election.gov.np}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Setopati|first=Setopati ::|title=NC candidate Chaudhary wins from Bara-1|url=https://en.setopati.com/political/112720/|access-date=2021-12-17|website=Setopati}}</ref>

== Electoral history ==
=== [[2017 Nepalese legislative election|2017 legislative elections]] ===
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="4" |[[Bara 1 (constituency)|Bara 1]]
|-
! colspan="2" |Party
!Candidate
!Votes
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Nepali Congress}}" |
|[[Nepali Congress]]
|Uma Kanta Chaudhary
|24,450
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)}}" |
|[[Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)]]
|Achyut Prasad Mainali
|22,030
|-
| style="background-color:#ffb300" |
|[[Rastriya Janata Party Nepal]]
|Ram Kishore Prasad Yadav
|20,144
|-
|
| colspan="2" |Others
|598
|-
| colspan="3" |Invalid votes
|3,004
|-
! colspan="2" |Result
! colspan="2" |Congress hold
|-
| colspan="4" |Source: [https://result.election.gov.np/ElectionResultCentral.aspx Election Commission]
|}

=== [[1999 Nepalese legislative election|1999 legislative elections]] ===
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="4" |[[Bara 1 (constituency)|Bara 1]]
|-
! colspan="2" |Party
!Candidate
!Votes
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Nepali Congress}}" |
|[[Nepali Congress]]
|Uma Kanta Chaudhary
|23,601
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)}}" |
|[[CPN (UML)|CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)]]
|Mukunda Neupane
|20,646
|-
| style="background-color:yellowgreen" |
|[[Nepal Sadbhawana Party]]
|Parmananda Prasad Yadav
|4,890
|-
| style="background-color:indianred" |
|[[Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) (1998)|CPN (Marxist–Leninist)]]
|Chabi Lal Uprety
|2,363
|-
| style="background-color:gold" |
|[[Rastriya Prajatantra Party]]
|Raj Narayan Sah Teli
|2,136
|-
|
| colspan="2" |Others
|553
|-
| colspan="3" |Invalid Votes
|1,340
|-
! colspan="2" |Result
! colspan="2" |Congress gain
|-
| 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>
|}

==References==
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