There are three types of elections in Nepal: elections to the Federal Parliament, elections to the state assemblies and elections to the local government. Within each of these categories there may be by-elections as well as general elections. Currently two electoral systems are used: parallel voting for House of Representatives and provincial assemblies and first past the post for local elections.
Communist Party of Nepal (Burma), initially known simply as Communist Party of Nepal or Communist Party of Nepal , was a communist party in Nepal. The party emerged from a split in the original Communist Party of Nepal in 1962, representing the pro-Soviet sector of the party. Its main leader until 1983 was Keshar Jung Rayamajhi, who had been the general secretary of the original CPN.
Madhav Kumar Nepal is a Nepalese politician who was Prime Minister of Nepal from May 25, 2009 to February 6, 2011. Nepal announced his resignation as prime minister on June 30, 2010. He was previously the General Secretary of Communist Party of Nepal for 15 years. He is also one of the only Prime Ministers in the world whose name features the name of his country, i.e., Nepal.
Sushil Koirala was the Prime Minister of Nepal from 11 February 2014 to 10 October 2015. He was also President of the Nepali Congress party from 2010 to 2016.
Upendra Yadav is a Nepalese politician serving as the Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister of Nepal. He is also chairman of the central committee of the Samajbadi Party, Nepal.
Hindu Prajatantrik Party is the Hindu nationalist political party in Nepal. The goal of this party is to strive to establish Nepal as a Hindu republic.
Renu Kumari Yadav is a Nepalese politician, belonging to the Ahir community, who was appointed as the Minister of Education in 2008. She is a member of the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum.
Nepal Dalit Shramik Morcha is a political party in Nepal, founded by Ruplal Bishvakarma. The party took part in the 1999 election, campaigning for rights for lower caste people. The party got 6852 votes.
Chitra Bahadur K.C. is a Nepalese politician and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Poverty Alleviation Of Nepal. He is the chairman of the Rashtriya Jana Morcha and the general secretary of the All Nepal Peasants Association linked to RJM.
Pradip Kumar Gyawali is a Nepalese politician, belonging to the Communist Party of Nepal. He is a Central Committee member of the party. In the 2008 parliamentary election he was elected from the Gulmi-2 constituency, winning 24345 votes
Sadrul Miya Haque was a Nepalese politician, who won the Saptari-5 seat independently in the 2008 Constituent Assembly election as an independent candidate. Haque won the seat with 10603 votes.
Malabar Singh Thapa is a Nepalese politician, belonging to the Rastriya Janamukti Party. After the 2008 Constituent Assembly election, he was selected to represent the party in the Syangja District from the closed list proportional representation system. Thapa had contested the 1994 legislative election in the Rupandehi-3 seat as the RJMP candidate. Then he got 1815 votes.
Ram Raja Prasad Singh was a Nepalese politician. In July 2008, Singh was proposed by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), a Nepalese political party which merged with other communist parties and renamed to Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre) नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (माओवादी)केन्द्र, or CPN(M-C) as their candidate in the first presidential election in the country.
Ram Baran Yadav is a Nepalese politician and physician who served as the First President of Nepal following the declaration of a republic in 2008. He served as a Nepalese President from 23 July 2008 to 29 October 2015. Previously he served as Minister of Health from 1999 to 2001 and General Secretary of the Nepali Congress. Yadav was Minister of State for Health in the 1991–1994 Nepali Congress government. He was elected to the House of Representatives in the 1999 election as a candidate of the Nepali Congress. After that election, he became Minister of Health.
Elections were held to the Rastriya Panchayat in Nepal on 9 May 1981. 80% of the seats were elected through adult universal suffrage; this was the first election through universal suffrage held in Nepal in 22 years. However, political parties were banned at the time, and the main underground opposition forces called for a boycott of the election.
Bodebarsain is a municipality of Saptari District, Province No. 2. It lies in the eastern Terai region of Nepal. It was officially upgraded to become a municipality in 2016, which otherwise was a Village Development Committee prior to that change. In order to meet the requirements to become a municipality, Bodebarsain merged Phulkahi, Manraja, Khadgapur, Deuri, Kachan, Sarashwar, Phulkahi, Negada and Dhanagadi VDC with itself. Bodebarsain spreads over an approximate area of 58.93 km2 (22.75 sq mi) and comprises 10 wards. According to 2011 census, the city had a population of 43,229.
Puthiya Tamilagam is a political party based in Southern Tamil Nadu, India representing Devendra Kula Velalar caste.
Amod Prasad Upadhyay is a Nepalese social worker and politician.
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, more commonly known as KP Sharma Oli, is a Nepalese politician and the current Prime Minister of Nepal. He is the Chairman of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP). Oli previously served as prime minister from 11 October 2015 to 3 August 2016 and was the first elected prime minister under the newly adopted Constitution of Nepal..
Manish Kumar Suman is a Nepalese politician. He is a member of the Province No. 2 Provincial Assembly, and currently represents Saptari 2 (Kha). Suman is serving as general secretary of the Rastriya Janata Party Nepal since 2017.
