Nepal

House of RepresentativesNational Assembly

National Assembly

Political system Political systems: Presidential, Parliamentary, Presidential-Parliamentary, Monarchy, Communist, Transitional.
Parliamentary system
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Structure of parliament Structure of parliament: Unicameral, bicameral
Bicameral
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IPU membership Current membership status
Yes
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Data on women

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Basic information > About parliament

Speaker

Speaker
Ganesh Prasad Timilsina (Male)
Year of birth
1961

Secretary general

Secretary General
Bharat Raj Gautam (Male)
Notes Additional information about the Secretary General, in particular regarding their term.
5 May 2020 - 4 May 2025.

Members

Current number of members, by sex
Men The number of male parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
37
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Women The number of female parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
22
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Percentage of women Calculated by dividing the current number of women by the current number of members.
37.29% See historical data for this field.

Age

Youngest member (years) Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
38
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Youngest member
Mahesh Kumar Mahara (Male)
Total number of MPs, 45 years of age or younger
7
Total number of MPs, 46 years of age or older
51
Total per sex
Total of male
37
Total of female
21
Total per age interval
18-20
0
21-30
0
31-40
1
41-45
6
46-50
9
51-60
21
61-70
18
71-80
3
81-90
0
91 and over
0
Number of members, by age
Breakdown of members by age and gender
18 - 20 21 - 30 31 - 40 41 - 45 46 - 50 51 - 60 61 - 70 71 - 80 81 - 90 91 and over Totals per gender
Totals per age interval 0 0 1 6 9 21 18 3 0 0
Total <= 45: 7 Total >= 46: 51
Male 0 0 1 4 5 11 15 1 0 0 37
Female 0 0 0 2 4 10 3 2 0 0 21
Percentage of members, by age
Age as last election or renewalOverallMaleFemale
Percentage of MPs 30 years of age or younger0%0%0%
Percentage of MPs 40 years of age or younger1.72%1.72%0%
Percentage of MPs 45 years of age or younger12.07%8.62%3.45%

Reserved seats and quotas

Number of reserved seats, by group
Women
4
Electoral quota for women Quotas to promote the representation of women in parliament.
Yes
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Notes
Constitution, Art. 86 (2)
For women, three are elected by an electoral college composed of members of the State Assembly, chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of the Village Bodies, and Mayors and Deputy-Mayors of the Municipalities, with different weightage of vote by members of the State (61) Assembly, chairpersons and vicechairpersons of the Village Bodies, and Mayors and Deputy-Mayors of the Municipalities, as provided for in the Federal law
Elections > Election results

Results

Members elected, by sex
Number of men elected
12
Number of women elected
7
Percentage of women elected The percentage is calculated by dividing the number of women elected in the election and the number of seats at stake at the election.
36.84%
Note on the Distribution of seats according to sex
The National Assembly comprises 56 indirectly elected members and three appointed members. They normally serve a six-year term, with one third of the membership renewed every two years. However, as part of transitional measures in the 2015 Constitution, for the first National Assembly established in 2018, one third of members was selected to retire after two years (2020), another one third after four years (2022) and the final third after six years (2024). In addition, each of the three appointed members was allocated a year of retirement in line with one of the groups of indirectly elected members (i.e. 2020, 2022 or 2024).

Indirect elections in January 2022 were held to replace the 19 members whose four-year term is due to expire on 4 March 2022. In addition, one (male) appointed member is due to retire in 2022 (his replacement was yet to be appointed as at 27 January 2022).

Out of 19 members indirectly elected in 2022, seven were women. In addition, there are 14 women among the 37 other indirectly elected members whose terms were not expiring in 2022. The National Assembly will thus comprise a total of 21 women among the 56 indirectly elected members when the 19 new members are sworn in on 5 March 2022.

As at 27 January, there were three appointed members: one male and one female member whose terms are not expiring in 2022; and one male member whose term is due to expire in March 2022.

The new legislature will thus comprise at least 22 women among the full 59 members, pending the appointment of one new member.
Number of women after election or renewal, by mode of designation
Women Indirectly Elected
7

New legislature

First Speaker of the new legislature
First Speaker of the new legislature First name of the Speaker of the new legislature following the election or renewal.
Ganesh Prasad Timilsina (Male)
Date of election
14.03.2018
Elections > Historical data on women

Women's suffrage

Women’s right to vote
Women’s right to vote Year in which women obtained the right to vote
1951
National or local Suffrage: National or Local
National
Restricted or unrestricted suffrage Suffrage: Restricted or Universal
Universal
Women’s right to stand for election
Women's right to stand for election Year in which women obtained the right to stand for election
1951
National or local Stand for Election: National or Local
National
Restricted or unrestricted suffrage Stand for Election : Restricted or Universal
Universal
First woman in parliament
First woman in parliament Year in which first woman entered parliament
1952
First woman speaker
Year of first woman speaker Date at which, for the first time in the country's parliamentary history, a woman became Presiding Officer of Parliament or of one of its Houses.
2015