2023 Nepalese presidential election

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2023 Nepalese presidential election
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President Ram Chandra Poudel, Official portrait (January 2024).jpg
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Candidate Ram Chandra Paudel [1] Subaschandra Nemwang [2]
Party Congress CPN (UML)
Electoral vote33,80215,518
Percentage65.54%31.46%
President before election

Bidya Devi Bhandari
CPN (UML)

Elected President

Ram Chandra Poudel
Nepali Congress

The fourth presidential election of Nepal, to elect the country's third president since the abolition of the monarchy, was held on 9 March 2023. [3]

Contents

The term of the incumbent president, Bidya Devi Bhandari, first elected in 2015, was set to expire on 13 March 2023. She was term-limited and could not seek re-election, with the Constitution of Nepal barring her from doing so. [4] [5]

Electoral process

The President of Nepal is elected by the majority of the votes of all members of the electoral colleges. If no candidate is elected, a second round is held between the top two candidates of the first round, under the same majority. As the latter is of the total votes including blank and invalid ones as well as abstentions, it is possible no candidate is elected in the first and second rounds. A third may then be held with the same candidates as in the second. The candidate with the majority of valid votes is then elected president. [6]

Part 6, Article 64 of the Constitution of Nepal 2015 sets the following qualifications for holding the presidency:

  1. A person shall be eligible to be president if he/she fulfils the following qualifications:
    • He/she is eligible to be a member of the Federal Parliament.
    • He/she has attained at least 45 years of age, and
    • Is not ineligible by any law.
  2. Notwithstanding anything contained in clause (1), a person who has already been elected president for two terms, shall not be eligible to be a presidential candidate for the presidential election thereafter.

Election schedule

The Election Commission announced the schedule for the presidential elections on 30 January 2023. [7]

Presidential election schedule
22 FebruaryPublication of initial electoral roll
22 – 24 FebruaryClaims and scrutiny on electoral roll
24 FebruaryPublication of final electoral roll
25 FebruaryNomination of candidates
26 – 28 FebruaryScrutiny on nominations
28 FebruaryPublication of final list of nominations
9 MarchDate of election

Electoral college

The electoral college is composed in 2023 of 881 members, of which 331 are from the federal parliament and 550 from the provincial assemblies, with a vote "weight" of 79 and 48 each, respectively. While the federal parliament is made of 275 members from the lower house and 59 from the upper one, 2 members of the lower house were unable to be registered in the electoral college because of a judicial affair and a third one died, thus lowering the electoral college total from the normal number of 884 to 881, and the grand total of weighted votes from 52,786 to 52,549. [8] [9]

Electoral college composition

Composition [10]
PartyPratinidhi SabhaRastriya SabhaPradesh SabhaTotal electors

 Nepali Congress 88 [lower-alpha 1] 10175273

 CPN (UML) 7918162259

 CPN (Maoist Centre) 311685132

 CPN (Unified Socialist) 1082543

 Rastriya Prajatantra Party 1402842

 People's Socialist Party 1132337

 Janamat Party 601622

 Rastriya Swatantra Party 190019

 Loktantrik Samajwadi Party 411217

 Nagarik Unmukti Party 401216

 Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party 1034

 Rastriya Janamorcha 1113
Nepal Socialist Party 1023

 Hamro Nepali Party 0022

 Independent 3249
Total272 [lower-alpha 2] 59550881

Electoral college vote value composition

PartyPratinidhi SabhaRastriya SabhaPradesh SabhaTotal votesPercentage

 Nepali Congress 6,9527908,40016,14230.72

 CPN (UML) 6,2411,4227,77615,43929.38

 CPN (Maoist Centre) 2,4491,2644,0807,79314.83

 CPN (Unified Socialist) 7906321,2002,6224.99

 Rastriya Prajatantra Party 1,10601,3442,4504.66

 People's Socialist Party 8692371,1042,2104.21

 Rastriya Swatantra Party 1501001,5012.86

 Janamat Party 47407681,2422.36

 Loktantrik Samajwadi Party 316795769711.85

 Nagarik Unmukti Party 31605768921.70

 Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party 7901442230.42

 Rastriya Janamorcha 7979482060.39
Nepal Socialist Party 790961750.33

 Hamro Nepali Party 0096960.18

 Independent 2371581925871.12
Total21,4884,66126,40052,549100

Candidates

On 24 February 2023, Ram Chandra Paudel of the Nepali Congress was chosen as the common candidate of an alliance of eight political parties; Congress, CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN (Unified Socialist), PSPN, Janamat, LSPN, NUP and RJM. [11] The next day, the CPN (UML) announced that it would field party vice-chair Subas Chandra Nemwang as its presidential candidate. [12]

Nepali Congress

CandidateBornPositions heldProvinceAnnouncedRef
RamChandraPaudel.png
Ram Chandra Poudel 		15 October 1944 (aged 78)
Tanahun, Gandaki 		Gandaki 25 February 2023 [13]

Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)

CandidateBornPositions heldProvinceAnnouncedRef
Subaschandra Nemwang.png
Subas Chandra Nemwang 		11 March 1954 (aged 68)
Ilam, Koshi 		Koshi 25 February 2023 [14]

Results

Results [15]
CandidatePartyVotesTotal
votes		 %
FederalProvincialTotal
Ram Chandra Poudel NC 21435256633,80268.54
Subas Chandra Nemwang CPN (UML) 9816226015,51831.46
Valid votes31251482649,32099.40
Blank and invalid votes1452710.60
Total31351883149,591100
Electors / turnout33155088152,54994.32

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ excluding 1 suspended MP
  2. ↑ excluding 2 vacant seats and 1 suspended MP

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