Backed by the Left Alliance, Bhandari (56) fought back the Nepali Congress’ Presidential candidate Kumari Laxmi Rai with a grand majority.

Since the time she filed her nomination for the post, Bhandari has been receiving a positive response for her candidature from various political parties.

Bhandari’s victory is majorly attributed to the strong support by the ruling Left alliance (CPN-UML and CPN-MC), Sanghiya Samajbadi Forum-Nepal and other political parties.

While CPN-UML has a 23,356 vote-bank with 243 lawmakers in Provincial Assemblies and 148 in the Federal Parliament, its alliance CPN-MC has 108 lawmakers in Provincial Assemblies and 65 lawmakers in the Parliament accounting to a 10,319 vote-bank.

Samajbadi Forum-Nepal and other parties favouring Bhandari’s candidature also hold a decent vote bank.

Whereas, Nepali Congress, the prime opposition of Left Alliance, has a vote bank comprising of
11,248 members together with 113 Provincial Assembly seats and 76 Parliamentary seats.

With this situation in place, garnering a majority vote bank against the Nepali Congress candidate was not a herculean task for Bhandari.

While Bhandari garnered a total of 39,275 votes, Rai lost it out at 11,730 votes, says the Election Commission of Nepal.

Earlier, Nepali Congress had also fielded Man Bahadur in the Presidential race.

Overall, a total of 334 the Federal Parliamentary members including 275 members of the House of Representatives, 59 National Assembly members and 550 Provincial Assembly members were eligible for this election.

Bhandari is the first woman president to Nepal elected in 2015 and has also been elected twice to the parliament in 1994 and 1999.

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The electoral process that was held on February 07, 2018 saw 52 candidates of different political parties who were fielded for a total of 32 seats in Provinces 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.

Nepal’s National Assembly has a total of 59 members, of which, 56 will be elected through the electoral college that includes assembly members of seven provinces, chiefs and deputy chiefs of municipalities and rural municipalities.

The other three members will be selected by the President in line with the government recommendations.

The electoral college of Nepal comprises of 2, 056 voters, 1,506 mayors and deputy mayors of various municipalities, along with the chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of rural municipalities.

The National Assembly election saw a total of 1,677 voters, 1,234 local-level officials and 443 Provincial Assembly members of the six provinces.

This election for Upper House is coming after the country has recently seen its long-awaited elections that saw election of members for various provinces and House of Representatives.

Key to Final Results

The current election holds significance owing to its key role in announcing the final results of the recently-concluded federal and provincial polls held on November 26, 2017 and December 06, 2017.

Following the vote counting of this election, the Election Commission will submit final results to the President. Following this, the commencement of Parliament and election of the new Prime Minister of Nepal will take place.

The Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) leader K P Sharma Oli has been named for the Prime Minister candidature.

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