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:
