2024 Nepalese National Assembly election

National Assembly elections were held in Nepal on 25 January 2024^[1] in order to elect 19 of the 20 retiring Class III members of the National Assembly, the upper house of the Federal Parliament of Nepal.^[2][3] Members of the National Assembly are elected through indirect ballot and serve six year terms with one third of the members retiring after every two years.^[4]

2024 Nepalese National Assembly election

← 2022 25 January 2024 2026 →
19 seats to the National Assembly
First party Second party Third party   Party Unified Marxist–Leninist Maoist Centre Congress Seats before 17 15 10 Seats after 10 17 16 Seat change 7 2 6   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Unified Socialist PSP-Nepal Independent Seats before 8 3 1 Seats after 8 3 0 Seat change 1
Chairperson of the Assembly before election Ganesh Prasad Timilsina CPN (UML) Elected Chairperson of the Assembly Narayan Prasad Dahal Maoist Centre

Electoral system

Eight members of the National Assembly are elected from each of the seven provinces of Nepal and 3 members are appointed by the President for a total of 59 members. Composition of members from each province have to include three women, a Dalit, and a disabled person or member of a minority. The three remaining are categorized as open/other candidates. All members elected from this election must be from the same category as the retiring members.^[4]

Members were elected by Instant-runoff voting by an electoral college composed of members of the respective provincial assembly and Chairperson/Mayor and Vice Chairperson/Deputy Mayor of the local levels within the province.^[5] Each provincial assembly member vote has a weight of forty eight whereas each Chairperson/Mayor/Vice Chairperson/Deputy Mayor vote have a weight of eighteen.^[5] This electoral college will elect 19 members while 1 member, whose term will also end concurrently, will be nominated by the President on the recommendation of the Government of Nepal.

Qualification for members

According to Article 87 of the Constitution, a person who meets the following criteria is qualified to become a member of the National Assembly:^[6]

• citizen of Nepal,
• completed the age of thirty five years,
• not having been convicted of a criminal offense involving moral turpitude,
• not being disqualified by any Federal law, and
• not holding any office of profit.

Alliance

  Nepali Congress+

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats Contested	Reference
1.	Nepali Congress			Sher Bahadur Deuba		10	[7]
2.	Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)			Pushpa Kamal Dahal		6
3.	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist)			Madhav Kumar Nepal		2
4.	People's Socialist Party, Nepal			Upendra Yadav		1

  Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats Contested	Reference
1.	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)			KP Sharma Oli		18	[8]

Results

Party		Seats
		Total before	Up	Won	Total after	+/–
	Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)	15	3	5	17	+2
	Nepali Congress	10	4	10	16	+6
	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)	17	8	1	10	–7
	Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist)	8	2	2	8	0
	People's Socialist Party	3	1	1	3	0
	Loktantrik Samajbadi Party	1	0	0	1	0
	Rastriya Janamorcha	1	0	0	1	0
	Independents	1	1	0	0	–1
Nominated members[a]		3	1	1	3	0
Total		59	20	20	59	0
Source: Xinhua[11]

Notes

1. Before the elections there was one nominated member from CPN (UML), one from CPN (MC), and one independent. The seat held by CPN (UML) was up for nomination. The coalition agreed on a candidacy of Durga Paudel from Rastriya Janamorcha for President's nomination.^[9][10]