8 things you should know about the 2022 Nepal election results
As two weeks have been over since voting on November 20, almost all Nepal election results have come out.
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KATHMANDU: Last week witnessed significant developments in Nepal. The by-elections in Ilam-2 and Bajhang, alongside the ensuing vote counting and results, sparked intriguing debates. Another focal point was the assessment of the two-day Nepal Investment Summit organized by the government. Opinions diverged, sparking yet another round of debate. The escalating pollution in Kathmandu, exacerbated by […]
KATHMANDU, March 9: Ram Chandra Poudel was elected as Nepal's new president after securing a resounding victory in the election.
Poudel received 214 votes from the House of Representatives and 352 votes from the Provincial Assemblies. His closest rival, Subhash Chandra Nemba
KATHMANDU: Unified Socialist Chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal has asked the party leaders and cadres to move ahead by facing challenges to obtain more opportunities in the future. Chairman Nepal consoled the party cadres not to get disturbed by the recent election results stating that victory or defeat was a normal phenomenon. He also urged the […]
KATHMANDU, Dec. 7: The ruling alliance in Nepal has failed to win a majority of votes to form a new government on its own as general election results were unveiled on Tuesday night.
The Nepali Congress, which leads the ruling alliance, has emerged as the largest party in the House of Representatives by securing 89 seats, followed by the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist), the main opposition, with 78 seats.
The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center), a ruling partner, comes third with 32 seats.
The ruling Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) becomes the seventh largest party with 10 seats, while the ruling Loktantrik Samajbadi Party takes four seats, and the Rastriya Janamorcha, which formed an electoral alliance with the four ruling parties in the Nov. 20 general elections for the House of Representatives and seven provincial assemblies, has one seat.
In total, the ruling alliance has garnered 136 seats in the 275-strong House of Representatives, two seats shy of a majority needed to form a new government on its own.
Nepal has adopted a mixed electoral system, in which 60 percent of representatives to the lower house and provincial assemblies are elected through the fast-past-the-post voting system, while the remaining 40 percent are filled through the proportional representation system.
"We have completed the vote count and seat allocation. We will write to the parties on Wednesday to name their lawmakers under the proportional representation," Shaligram Sharma Poudel, spokesperson of the Election Commission, told Xinhua.
As many as 12 parties have made their way to the lower house this time, with the newly-formed Rastriya Swatantra Party bagging 20 seats to become the fourth largest.
en days after Nepal held parliamentary and provincial polls, the last of the election results are trickling in. With ballots in 161 out of 165 constituencies now counted, the NC leads in first past the post (FPTP) with 54 seats, the UML is second with 44, the Maoist Centre is a distant third with 17 […]
Nepal Telecom has provided an election offer for sharing information and receiving election results of the forthcoming elections to the House of Representatives and Provincial Assemblies.
KATHMANDU: May 18: CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal has alleged that the agreement reached among the ruling coalition parties to form an electoral alliance in the local election was not implemented honestly.
