Election Commission Still Finalizing Seat Allocation Based on Proportional Representation Votes

Kathmandu. The Election Commission has been unable to confirm how many seats political parties will receive based on the votes cast under the proportional representation system. Although the votes for the proportional representation system were counted on Wednesday, the commission has still not been able to finalize which party will receive how many seats.

Yagya Prasad Bhattarai, Joint Secretary (Law) and head of the commission's Political Parties Division, informed that the number of seats the parties will receive based on the proportional representation votes has not yet been finalized. “We have not yet finalized the number of parliamentarians the parties will receive under the proportional representation system. We are working to finalize the exact votes and seat numbers today,” Joint Secretary Bhattarai told Ratopati.

Bhattarai also stated that once the seat numbers are confirmed, they are preparing to correspond with the parties today itself, sending them the list of parliamentarians according to the allocated clusters.

Previously, during a press conference on Wednesday, Commission Spokesperson Joint Secretary Narayan Prasad Bhattarai had stated that preparations were underway to finalize the seat numbers for proportional representation and correspond with the parties that same day. However, commission officials say the process has been prolonged because it is taking time to confirm the votes received by the parties and finalize the seat numbers.