Elections 2022

The Election Commission has submitted a report containing election results of both the first-past-the-post (FPTP) and proportional representation (PR) electoral systems to President Bidya Devi Bhandari. 

House of Representatives and Province Assembly elections were held on November 20. Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya submitted the report to President Bidya Devi Bhandari at Sheetal Niwas.

Also present were election comissioners Ishwori Prasad Paudel, Ram Prasad Bhandari, Dr Janaki Kumari Tuladhar and Sagun Shumsher JB Rana and the EC secretary Gokarna Mani Duwadi, among others. 

Legal provision requires EC to should submit the report to the President with final results of FPTP and PR system within seven days of the announcement of the election results. 

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President Bhandari expressed her happiness over the conclusion of the elections to the House of Representatives (HoR) and the Province Assembly (PA) and thanked all including the Election Commission, security bodies, stakeholders and voters. 

CEO Thapaliya said the polls were concluded in a fair and fearless environment. Through the elections, the total 825 people’s representatives were elected. Of them, 275 are HoR members and 550 are PA members.

As per the results, women’s participation in the HoR is 33.10 percent, and 36.36 percent in the PA. The EC’s representatives are scheduled to present a report, along with the results of PA polls to the chief of all seven provinces on 17 December, said the EC. 

Once the results are handed over to the president and the provincial governors, the Commission will turn its attention to getting the names of all 825 elected representatives published in Nepal Gazette.

With RSS inputs