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The National Assembly had 60 members, 35 of whom would be elected by the electoral college of the House of Representatives, 3 each from the five development regions of Nepal, 15 in total, which would be elected by an electoral college of village, municipalities and districts and 10 members appointed by the monarch. The right to franchise was ...
The House of Representatives of Nepal is the lower house of the country's Federal Parliament. It is housed at the International Convention Centre , in Kathmandu , the capital. The current House of Representatives was elected by the general elections held on 20 November 2022 , and its first session convened on 9 January 2023.
General elections are to be held in Nepal before November 2027 to elect the 275 members of the House of Representatives unless dissolved earlier. [1] There remains two ballots in the election; one to elect 165 members from single-member constituencies via FPTP, and the other to elect the remaining 110 members from a single nation-wide constituency via party-list proportional representation.
A party or electoral alliance has to pass the election threshold of 3% of the overall valid vote to be allocated a seat in the proportional vote. [30] Nepal uses the Sainte-Laguë method to allocate proportional seats.
The electoral college is composed in 2023 of 881 members, of which 331 are from the federal parliament and 550 from the provincial assemblies, with a vote "weight" of 79 and 48 each, respectively. While the federal parliament is made of 275 members from the lower house and 59 from the upper one, 2 members of the lower house were unable to be ...
The Economist Intelligence Unit rated Nepal a "hybrid regime" in 2022, [10] [needs update] while the 2018 Polity data series considers it to be a democracy. [11] According to the 2023 V-Dem Democracy indices Nepal was the 7th most electoral democratic country in Asia. [12]
Electoral system [ edit ] The 550 members of the provincial assemblies will be elected by two methods; 330 will be elected from single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting and 220 seats will be elected by closed list proportional representation for parties gathering more than 1.5% of the votes. [ 4 ]
A four-tier system of indirectly elected councils was established from the village to the national level. [9] The Rastriya Panchayat declared Nepal a Hindu state. The people's movement of 1990 brought an end to absolute monarchy and Panchayat system.