Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa

Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa འབྲུག་མཉམ་རུབ་ཚོགས་པ།
Abbreviation	DNT
President	Lotay Tshering[1]
Vice President	Sherub Gyeltshen
Deputy Leader	Karma Dorji
Spokesperson	Tandi Dorji
Founders	Tenzin Lekphell[2] Karma Dorji[3] Tandi Dorji
Founded	20 January 2013 (12 years ago) (2013-01-20)
Headquarters	Thimphu, Bhutan
Ideology	Social democracy[4]
Political position	Centre[5] to centre-left[6]
Slogan	"Narrowing the gap"
Seats in the National Assembly	0 / 47
Election symbol
Peach blossom
Politics of Bhutan Political parties Elections

Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་མཉམ་རུབ་ཚོགས་པ།; Wylie: ’brug nyam-rub tshogs-pa; lit. 'Bhutan United Party'),^[7][8] formerly the Social Democratic Party,^[9][10] is one of the five registered political parties in Bhutan. It was registered on 20 January 2013.^[11] The DNT was Bhutan's governing party from 2018 to 2023.

Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa contested the National Assembly elections of 2013, 2018 and 2023.

In the primary round of the 2nd National Assembly elections held in 2013, the DNT had 35,962 votes and came third place,^[12] and so could not take part in the final round. However the then party president, Aum Dorji Choden, who placed first in her constituency, as well as several other DNT candidates who placed second in their own constituencies, resigned from the party to become successful candidates for the People's Democratic Party in the final round.

In the 2018 elections, the party won 30 seats with 54.95% of the votes.

The party failed to advance to the second round of the 2023–24 elections.

Election	First round		Second round		Seats	+/–	Outcome
	Votes	%	Votes	%
2013	35,962	17.04%	Did not qualify		0 / 47	New	Extra-parliamentary
2018	92,722	31.85%	172,268	54.95%	30 / 47	30	Government
2023–24	41,106	13.13%	Did not qualify		0 / 47	30	Extra-parliamentary

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