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Nepal Provincial Parliamentary election 2017 voting live Results Dates
Nepal Provincial Parliamentary election Dates 2017
Nepal Provincial Parliamentary election Date: 26 November 2017
The House of Representatives (Nepali: Pratinidhi Sabha) was the lower house of parliament during the 1990 Constitution in Nepal. It consisted of 205 members directly elected by the people. It had five-year terms, but it could be dissolved by the king on the advice of the prime minister before the ending of its term.
The Pratinidhi Sabha was provisioned by the Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal 1990 in October 1990. According to which the parliament was formed by the General Election held in April 1991.
Nepal Provincial Parliamentary election Voting Live 2017
- Legislative elections will be held in Nepal in two phases on 26 November 2017 and 7 December 2017 to elect members of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Federal Parliament.
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The tenure of the current Legislature Parliament ends on 21 January 2018 and if the parliament is not in place by then, the country will be without a legislature.
Electoral system of Nepal
The 275 members of the legislature will be elected by two methods; 165 will be elected from single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting and 110 seats will be elected by closed listproportional representation from a single nationwide constituency.A party or electoral alliance must pass the election threshold of 3% of the overall valid vote to be allocated a seat under the proportional method.The candidate who obtains the support of majority of the members will become the next Prime Minister.
A five-member Constituency Delineation Commission was formed under the chairmanship of former Supreme Court Justice Kamal Narayan Das to redraw the constituency boundaries to 165, a reduction from the 240 used in the 2013 elections. It submitted its report to the government on 30 August. The boundaries set by this commission will remained unchanged for the next 20 years as per Article 286 (12).
Candidates for Nepal Provincial Parliamentary
|
Leader |
Sher Bahadur Deuba |
Khadga Prasad Oli |
|
Party |
Nepali Congress |
CPN (UML) |
Nepal Parties and leaders
|
Party |
|---|
|
Nepali Congress |
|
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) |
|
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) |
|
Rastriya Prajatantra Party |
|
Rastriya Janata Party Nepal |
|
Nepal Loktantrik Forum |
|
Sanghiya Samajvadi Forum, Nepal |
|
Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) |
|
Nepal Mazdoor Kisan Party |
|
Rastriya Janamorcha |
|
Communist Party of Nepal (United) |
|
Nepal Pariwar Dal |
|
Naya Shakti Party, Nepal |
|
Akhanda Nepal Party |
|
Nepali Janata Dal |
|
Khambuwan Rashtriya Morcha, Nepal |
|
Bouddhik Prajatantrik Parishad |
|
Jana Jagaran Party Nepal |
|
Samajvadi Janata Party |
|
Sanghiya Loktantrik Rastriya Manch (Tharuhat) |
|
Bahujan Shakti Party |
|
Rastriya Janamukti Party |
Nepal past election results
|
Party |
FPTP |
Proportional |
Total |
+/– |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Votes |
% |
Seats |
Votes |
% |
Seats |
|||
|
Nepali Congress |
2,694,983 |
29.80 |
105 |
2,418,370 |
25.55 |
91 |
196 |
81 |
|
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) |
2,492,090 |
27.55 |
91 |
2,239,609 |
23.66 |
84 |
175 |
67 |
|
Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) |
1,609,145 |
17.79 |
26 |
1,439,726 |
15.21 |
54 |
80 |
149 |
|
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal |
252,579 |
2.79 |
0 |
630,697 |
6.66 |
24 |
24 |
20 |
|
Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum, Nepal (Loktantrik) |
283,468 |
3.13 |
4 |
274,987 |
2.91 |
10 |
14 |
14 |
|
Rastriya Prajatantra Party |
238,313 |
2.63 |
3 |
260,234 |
2.75 |
10 |
13 |
5 |
|
Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum, Nepal |
206,110 |
2.28 |
2 |
214,319 |
2.26 |
8 |
10 |
44 |
|
Tarai-Madhesh Loktantrik Party |
171,889 |
1.90 |
4 |
181,140 |
1.91 |
7 |
11 |
10 |
|
Sadbhavana Party |
140,930 |
1.56 |
1 |
133,271 |
1.41 |
5 |
6 |
3 |
|
Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) (2002) |
98,091 |
1.08 |
0 |
130,300 |
1.38 |
5 |
5 |
4 |
|
Federal Socialist Party |
108,683 |
1.20 |
0 |
121,274 |
1.28 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
|
Rastriya Janamorcha |
66,666 |
0.74 |
0 |
92,387 |
0.98 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
|
Communist Party of Nepal (United) |
24,808 |
0.27 |
0 |
91,997 |
0.97 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
|
Rashtriya Madhesh Samajwadi Party |
76,392 |
0.84 |
0 |
79,508 |
0.84 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
Nepal Workers Peasants Party |
54,323 |
0.60 |
1 |
66,778 |
0.71 |
3 |
4 |
1 |
|
Rastriya Janamukti Party |
39,352 |
0.44 |
0 |
63,834 |
0.67 |
2 |
2 |
|
|
Terai Madhes Sadbhavana Party |
65,047 |
0.72 |
1 |
62,746 |
0.66 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
|
Tharuhat Tarai Party Nepal |
38,972 |
0.43 |
0 |
62,526 |
0.66 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
|
Nepal Pariwar Dal |
14,546 |
0.16 |
0 |
51,823 |
0.55 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
|
Dalit Janajati Party |
33,508 |
0.37 |
0 |
48,802 |
0.52 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
|
Akhanda Nepal Party |
12,590 |
0.14 |
0 |
36,883 |
0.39 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
Madeshi Janadikar Forum (Gantantrik) |
35,289 |
0.39 |
0 |
33,982 |
0.36 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
Nepali Janata Dal |
6,816 |
0.08 |
0 |
33,203 |
0.35 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
Khambuwan Rashtriya Morchan Nepal |
6,451 |
0.07 |
0 |
30,686 |
0.32 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
Nepa Rastriya Party |
9,377 |
0.10 |
0 |
28,011 |
0.30 |
1 |
1 |
|
|
Jana Jagaran Party Nepal |
3,510 |
0.04 |
0 |
27,397 |
0.29 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
Sanghiya Sadhbhawana Party |
20,395 |
0.23 |
0 |
25,215 |
0.27 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
Madhesh Samata Party Nepal |
8,130 |
0.09 |
0 |
23,001 |
0.24 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
Samajwadi Janata Party |
4,661 |
0.05 |
0 |
21,624 |
0.23 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
Sanghiya Loktantrik Rastriya Manch (Tharuhat) |
4,622 |
0.05 |
0 |
21,128 |
0.22 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
Independents |
107,764 |
1.19 |
2 |
– |
– |
– |
2 |
0 |
|
Total |
9,044,908 |
100 |
240 |
9,463,862 |
100 |
335 |
26 |
601 |
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