EC declares PR results; Maoists bag 100 seats, NC 73 and UML 70:-

Chief Election Commissioner Bhoj Raj Pokherel speaking in a press conference...
The Election Commission (EC) allocated the 335 seats to the parties under the proportional representation system on Friday. According to the final results, the CPN-Maoist has got 100 seats, Nepali Congress 73 seats and the CPN-UML 70 seats.

Likewise, with 22 seats Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) has retained the fourth position in PR system also. Two other Terai-based parties - Terai Madhesh Loktantrik Party (TMLP) and Sadbhawana Party (SP) bagged 11 and five seats respectively. Similarly, CPN (Marxist Leninist) which failed to win a single constituency in first-past-the-post system also got eight PR seats.

Kamal Thapa's Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal, which advocated constitutional monarchy, claimed only four seats while Rastriya Prajatantra Party bagged eight seats and Rastriya Janashakti Party (RJP) led by former Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa got two seats. None of the three parties won seats in FPTP election.

A number of small parties that could not win a single seat in FPTP election have benifitted from the PR system.

A leader of Nepal Pariwar Dal, a political party never seen in the political spectrum before, was on cloud nine as his party managed to win one PR seat.

"Finally we have proved that there was no logic that we withdrew from the fray to support others. We have now representation to that biggest assembly of Nepal," he told his party members just before Election Commission announced the results of the seat allocation to the parties.

His party was among the 25 other parties that will have at least one representative in the constituent assembly.

The new cabinet to be led by the Maoists will nominate 26 members from among the ethnic groups not represented in the assembly through the votes.

The big three - Maoists, Nepali Congress and the UML - received lesser votes compared to their votes in FPTP system while the regional parties like MJF and TMLP secured more votes than they received under FPTP.

List of the political parties with their total number of seats:

Parties Seats
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) 220
Nepali Congress 110
Communist UML 103
MJF 52
Terai Madhesh Democratic Party 20
Sadbhavana Party 9
Rastriya Prajatantra Party 8
Communist Party of Nepal (ML) 8
Janamorcha Nepal 7
Communist Party of Nepal (United) 5
Rastra Prajatantra Party Nepal 4
Rastriya Janamorcha 4
Nepal Majdoor Kishan Party 4
Rastriya Janashakti Party 3
Rastriya Janamukti Party 2
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified) 2
Nepal Sadbhavana Party (Anandi Devi) 2
Nepali Janata Dal 2
Snaghiya Loktantrik Rastriya Manch 2
Samajbadi Prajatantrik Janata Party Nepal 1
Dalit Janajati Party 1
Nepal Pariwar Dal 1
Nepal Rastriya Party 1
Nepal Loktantrik Samajbadi Dal 1
Chune Bhawar Rastriya Ekata Party Nepal 1
Independents 2

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