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.)