Yeshey Dem

Yeshey Dem
Member of the National Assembly of Bhutan
Incumbent
Assumed office 31 October 2018
Preceded by	Pema Drukpa
Constituency	Khamaed Lunana
Personal details
Born	c. 1993[1]
Nationality	Bhutanese
Political party	Druk 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.[2]

Education

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Language and Literature[3] from the Institute of Language and Cultural Studies, Bhutan.[1]

Political career

Before joining politics, Dem worked as a public relations assistant.[4]

She was elected to the National Assembly of Bhutan as a candidate of DNT from Khamaed Lunana constituency in 2018 Bhutanese National Assembly election.[5][6] She received 419 votes and defeated Dhendup, a candidate of Druk Phuensum Tshogpa.[4]

References

1. "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.
4. "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.