Election Commission Finalizes Seat Allocation for Proportional Representation System

Kathmandu. The Election Commission has finalized the number of seats political parties will receive under the proportional representation system. The Commission provided information regarding the seat allocation for the proportional representation system through a press release on Thursday.

The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) secured the highest number of seats with 57. According to the Commission, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) received the most seats with 57. The Nepali Congress received 20 seats, while the CPN-UML received 16 seats. Similarly, the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) received 9 seats, while the Shram Sanskriti Party and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) each received an equal 4 seats.

According to the Commission, out of 11,280,617 votes cast in the proportional representation system, 10,835,025 votes (96.05 percent) were deemed valid.

After completing the entire vote count for the proportional representation system, the seat numbers were determined for the 6 parties that crossed the stipulated threshold (three percent) based on the total valid votes received by the respective parties, in accordance with Section 60(2) of the House of Representatives Election Act, 2074 and the prevailing election laws.