51 parties fail to surpass election threshold for ‘national party’

Kathmandu / March 11: Following the completion of vote counting for the proportional representation segment of the House of Representatives (HoR) elections, 51 participating parties received fewer votes than the required threshold for parliamentary representation.

In the elections held on March 5 under the proportional representation system, a total of 57 parties participated with a combined election symbol. Out of these, six parties are set to enter parliament, while 51 did not achieve the minimum votes required.

The Election Commission (EC) has clarified that only parties securing at least three percent of the total valid votes will be granted seats. Deputy Spokesperson of the EC, Kul Bahadur GC, noted that there is a legal framework that treats the entire country as a single electoral constituency, allowing candidates from a party to be elected to the House of Representatives based on the total votes each party receives.

He reported that out of 17,039,115 valid votes counted for proportional representation, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) leads with 5,103,923 votes. The Nepali Congress (NC) garnered 1,749,583 votes, CPN (UML) received 1,404,854 votes, the Nepali Communist Party (NCP) obtained 805,773 votes, the Shram Sanskriti Party (SSP) got 378,649 votes, and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) secured 329,472 votes.

He added that the remaining parties did not surpass the threshold. RSS