General Information
Nepal: House of Representatives, 26 November 2017
Election Results Note:
- Vote tallies and percentages are of proportional voting only (110 of the 275 elected members). The seats won includes both proportional and first-past-the-post voting.
At stake in this election:
- 165 seats in the House of Representatives (Pratinidi Sabha)
Description of government structure:
- Chief of State: President Bidhya Devi BHANDARI
- Head of Government: Prime Minister KP Sharma OLI
- Assembly: Nepal has a bicameral Congress consisting of a Constituent Assembly and a House of Representatives.
Description of electoral system:
- In the Constituent Assembly (Sambidhan Sabha), 240 members are elected by plurality vote in first-past-the-post single-member constituencies, 335 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system and 26 members are appointed by the Cabinet.
- In the House of Representatives (Pratinidi Sabha), 165 members are elected by plurality vote in first-past-the-post single-member constituencies and 110 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system.
Main Parties in the Electoral Race:
- Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN(M)) / एकीकृत नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (माओवादी)*
- Leader: Mohan BAIDYA
- Nepali Congress / नेपाली काँग्रेस
- Leader: Sher Bahadur DEUBA
- Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN-UML) / नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (एकिकृत मार्क्सवादी–लेनवादी)*
- Leader: KP Sharma OLI
- Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal (FSFN) / संघीय समाजवादी फोरम, नेपाल
- Leader: Upendra YADAV
- New Power Party Nepal / नयाँ शक्ति पार्टी नेपाल
- Leader: Baburam BHATTARAI
- National People's Front / राष्ट्रिय जनमोर्चा
- Leader: Chitra BAHADUR KC
- Nepal Workers and Peasants Party / नेपाल मजदुर किसान पार्टी
- Leader: Narayanman BIJUKHECHEN
- National People's Party / राष्ट्रिय जनता पार्टी
- Leader:
- Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) / राष्ट्रिय प्रजातन्त्र पार्टी
- Leader: Kamal THAPA
* UCPN and CPN-UML formed the Left Alliance.
Population and number of registered voters:
- Population: 30,430,267 (July 2013 est.)
- Registered Voters: 12,200,000 (October 2013 est.)
Gender Data:
· Female Population: 14,339,464 (2013)
· Is Nepal a signatory to CEDAW: Yes (5 February 1991)
· Has Nepal ratified CEDAW: Yes (22 April 1991)
· Gender Quota: Yes
· Female candidates in this election: Yes
· Number of Female Parliamentarians: 172 (following the 2013 elections)
· Human Development Index Position: 145 (2014)
· Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: High (2014)
Disability Data:
· Is Nepal a signatory to CRPD: Yes (3 January 2008)
· Has Nepal ratified CRPD: Yes (7 May 2010)
· Population with a disability: 4,564,540 (est.)