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Yeshey Dem

Bhutanese politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ59811971
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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.

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The public source identifies “Yeshey Dem” as bhutanese politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Yeshey, Bhutanese and politician.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Yeshey, Bhutanese and politician providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q59811971. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from Yeshey Dem” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.