{"id":14,"date":"2026-03-11T14:23:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merokathmandu.com\/en\/?p=14"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:45:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:00:57","slug":"nepal-proportional-representation-result-start-seat-allocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merokathmandu.com\/en\/2026\/03\/11\/nepal-proportional-representation-result-start-seat-allocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote Counting Completed for Proportional Representation; Seat Allocation Process Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kathmandu<\/strong> \u2014 The vote counting under the proportional representation (PR) system for Nepal\u2019s parliamentary elections has been completed, marking a key milestone in the post-election process. With the final counts from the <strong>Gorkha-1<\/strong> and <strong>Ilam-1<\/strong> constituencies finished, the Election Commission confirmed that all PR ballots nationwide have now been tallied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to <strong>Kumar Bahadur GC<\/strong>, assistant spokesperson for the Election Commission, the final reports from local election offices are still being compiled and sent to the central office. Once these results are fully verified, the commission will proceed with the formal calculation of how many seats each political party will receive under the proportional representation system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The commission stated that the seat allocation process is expected to move forward in the coming days as the necessary administrative steps are completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of Wednesday morning, a total of <strong>10,739,115 votes<\/strong> had been counted under the proportional representation category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the political parties, the <strong>Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP)<\/strong> received the highest number of PR votes with <strong>5,139,235<\/strong>. The <strong>Nepali Congress<\/strong> followed with <strong>1,749,583 votes<\/strong>, while the <strong>Communist Party of Nepal (UML)<\/strong> secured <strong>1,448,854 votes<\/strong>. The <strong>Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)<\/strong> received <strong>805,773 votes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the <strong>Shram Sanskriti Party<\/strong> collected <strong>378,649 votes<\/strong>, and the <strong>Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP)<\/strong> received <strong>329,472 votes<\/strong>. Other political parties remain below the minimum vote threshold required to qualify for proportional representation seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Election Commission will soon determine the final distribution of proportional seats in the House of Representatives based on these results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal\u2019s proportional representation (PR) vote counting has been completed, marking a key step in the post-election process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2,7],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-nepal-election-commission","tag-nepal-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merokathmandu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merokathmandu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merokathmandu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merokathmandu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merokathmandu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/merokathmandu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/merokathmandu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merokathmandu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merokathmandu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merokathmandu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}