Yeshey Dem

Yeshey Dem
Member of the National Assembly of Bhutan
Incumbent
Assumed office
31 October 2018
Preceded byPema Drukpa
ConstituencyKhamaed Lunana
Personal details
Bornc. 1993
PartyDruk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT)

Yeshey Dem (Dzongkha: ཡེ་ཤེས་ སྒྲོལམ།) is a Bhutanese politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Bhutan since October 2018.

Education

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Language and Literature from the Institute of Language and Cultural Studies, Bhutan.

Political career

Before joining politics, Dem worked as a public relations assistant.

She was elected to the National Assembly of Bhutan as a candidate of DNT from Khamaed Lunana constituency in 2018 Bhutanese National Assembly election. She received 419 votes and defeated Dhendup, a candidate of Druk Phuensum Tshogpa.

References

  1. 1 2 "Bhutan 2018 Elections". www.peldendrukpa.com.
  2. ↑ "Hon. Yeshey Dem". www.nab.gov.bt. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019. "ཆེད་བསྟོད་ཅན་གྱི་འཐུས་མི་ ཡེ་ཤེས་སྒྲོལམ།". www.nab.gov.bt. Archived from the original on 7 July 2019.
  3. ↑ "NA Election 2018". kuenselnews.com. Archived from the original on 2018-10-03. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
  4. 1 2 "Seven women candidates of ten elected". Business Bhutan.
  5. ↑ "A big win for women, Bhutan elects 7 of 10 women candidates". BBS. 19 October 2018.
  6. ↑ "The women MPs in National Assembly". BBS. 30 October 2018.