Description of Electoral System

According to the Constituent Assembly Election Act 2064, the Nepalese Constituent Assembly shall consist of 497 members. 240 members are elected from single constituencies under the First Past The Post System while 240 additional members are elected from a single constituency under the Proportional System. The final 17 members are to be nominated by the Council of Ministers.

Most Recent Election

Source: "RECENT ELECTIONS." NEPAL. Statesman’s Yearbook Online. Ed. Barry Turner. Palgrave 2008. International IDEA. <http://www.statesmansyearbook.com/welcome/entry?entry=countries_np.RECENT_ELECTIONS>

In elections to the Constituent Assembly held on 10 April 2008 the Communist Party of Nepal/Maoist won 220 of the 575 elected seats (26 seats are reserved for nominated members). Nepali Congress won 110 seats, the Communist Party/Unified Marxist-Leninists 103, the Madhesi Jana Adhikar Forum/Madhesi People’s Rights Forum 52 and the Tarai-Madhesh Loktantrik Party 20. The remaining 70 seats were shared among fringe parties and independents.

Ram Baran Yadav (Nepali Congress) was elected president by the Constituent Assembly in a second round of voting on 21 July 2008, defeating Ram Raja Prasad Singh (Communist Party of Nepal/Maoist) by 308 votes to 282.