2022 Nepalese general election

2022 Nepalese general election

20 November 2022 (2022-11-20)

All 275 seats in the House of Representatives
138 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered17,988,570
Turnout61.85% ( 6.78 pp; Const. votes)
61.41% ( 7.22 pp; PR votes)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Sher Bahadur Deuba K. P. Sharma Oli Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Party Congress CPN (UML) Maoist Centre
Leader since 7 March 2016 8 March 2021 8 March 2021
Leader's seat Dadeldhura 1 Jhapa 5 Gorkha 2
Last election 32.78%, 63 seats 33.25%, 121 seats 13.66%, 53 seats
Seats won 89 78 32
Seat change 26 43 21
Constituency vote 2,431,907 3,233,567 982,826
% and swing 23.19%
( 9.59 pp)
30.83%
( 2.42 pp)
9.37%
( 4.29 pp)
Regional vote 2,715,225 2,845,641 1,175,684
% and swing 25.71%
( 7.07 pp)
26.95%
( 6.30 pp)
11.13%
( 2.53 pp)

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Rabi Lamichhane Rajendra Prasad Lingden Upendra Yadav
Party RSP RPP PSP-Nepal
Leader since 1 July 2022 5 December 2021 c. April 2020
Leader's seat Chitwan 2 Jhapa 3 Saptari 2 (lost)
Last election Did not exist 2.06%, 1 seat Did not exist
Seats won 20 14 12
Seat change New 13 New
Constituency vote 815,023 549,340 379,337
% and swing 7.77%
(New)
5.24%
( 3.18 pp)
3.62%
(New)
Regional vote 1,130,344 588,849 421,314
% and swing 10.70%
(New)
5.58%
( 3.52 pp)
3.99%
(New)

  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
Leader Madhav Kumar Nepal CK Raut Mahantha Thakur
Party Unified Socialist Janamat Loktantrik Samajwadi
Leader since c. August 2021 c. March 2019 c. August 2021
Leader's seat Rautahat 1 Saptari 2 Mahottari 3
Last election Did not exist Did not exist Did not exist
Seats won 10 6 4
Seat change New New New
Constituency vote 436,020 292,554 169,692
% and swing 4.16%
(New)
2.79%
(New)
1.62%
(New)
Regional vote 298,391 394,655 167,367
% and swing 2.83%
(New)
3.74%
(New)
1.58%
(New)

Results by constituency

Prime Minister before election

Sher Bahadur Deuba
Congress

Prime Minister after election

Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Maoist Centre

General elections were held in Nepal on 20 November 2022 to elect the 275 members of the House of Representatives. There were two ballots in the election; one to elect 165 members from single-member constituencies via FPTP, and the other to elect the remaining 110 members from a single nation-wide constituency via party-list proportional representation.

The election was held alongside provincial elections for the seven provincial assemblies.

After power sharing talks between the outgoing Democratic Left Alliance broke down on 25 December 2022, CPN (Maoist Centre) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal became prime minister, its eight-member cabinet consisting of MPs from his party, CPN (UML), Rastriya Swatantra Party and Janamat Party, with the confidence and supply of RPP, JSP, NUP and three independents.