1991 Nepalese general election

General elections were held in Nepal on 12 May 1991, to elect 205 members to the House of Representatives. The elections were the first multi-party elections since 1959. The 1990 Nepalese revolution successfully made King Birendra to restore a multi-party system after King Mahendra had established the Rastriya Panchayat when he dissolved the parliament on December 1960.[2][3]

1991 Nepalese general election
12 May 1991
All 205 seats to the House of Representatives
103 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout65.15%[1]
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Krishna Prasad Bhattarai Madan Kumar Bhandari Baburam Bhattarai
Party Congress CPN (UML) Samyukta Janamorcha
Leader's seat Kathmandu 1 (lost) Kathmandu 1
Kathmandu 5 (vacated)		 Did not contest
Seats won 110 69 9
Popular vote 2,742,452 2,040,102 351,904
Percentage 37.75 27.98 4.83
PM before election

Krishna Prasad Bhattarai
Congress

 Elected PM

Girija Prasad Koirala
Congress

Results
Party Leader Candidates Votes % Seats
Nepali Congress Krishna Prasad Bhattarai 204 2,742,452 37.75 110
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Madan Bhandari 177 2,040,102 27.98 69
Rashtriya Prajatantra Party (Chand) Lokendra Bahadur Chand 154 478,604 6.56 3
Rashtriya Prajatantra Party (Thapa) Surya Bahadur Thapa 163 392,499 5.38 1
Samyukta Janamorcha, Nepal Baburam Bhattarai 70 351,904 4.83 9
Nepal Sadbhavana Party Gajendra Narayan Singh 75 298,610 4.10 6
CPN (Democratic) Bishnu Bahadur Manandhar 75 177,323 2.43 2
Nepal Workers and Peasants Party Narayan Man Bijukchhe 30 91,335 1.25 2
Nepal Rastriya Janamukti Morcha Malabar Singh Thapa 50 34,509 0.47 0
CPN (Burma) Krishna Raj Burma 36 16,698 0.23 0
Janata Dal (Samajbadi Prajantantrik) Keshar Jung Rayamjhi 15 5,760 0.08 0
Nepal Rastriya Jana Party 4 5,732 0.08 0
CPN (Amatya) Tulsi Lal Amatya 14 4,846 0.07 0
Rastriya Janata Party 9 4,280 0.06 0
Nepal Conservative Party 6 2,562 0.04 0
Bahu Jana Janatadal 1 2,012 0.03 0
Ekata Party 1 94 0.00 0
Dalit Majdoor Kisan Party 1 92 0.00 0
Independents 219 303,723 4.17 3
Invalid votes — 322,023 4.42 —
Total 1345 7,291,084 100 205

Source: Election Commission of Nepal

Aftermath

Following the result of the election, Nepali Congress came to power and Girija Prasad Koirala became Prime Minister.[4] The house met for the first time on May 1991. Daman Nath Dhungana served as the Speaker of the House.[5] The parliament could not complete its full five-year term with Girija Prasad Koirala asking King Birendra to dissolve the house on July 1994 after losing a no-confidence motion with some member of his own party voting against him.[6][7]

See also

References
  1. "Previous Election Facts and Figures". web.archive.org. 2008-10-21. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
  2. "Kingdom of Nepal: Parliamentary Elections, May 12, 1991". www.ifes.org. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  3. Times, Special to The New York (1960-12-16). "NEPAL'S CABINET IS OUSTED BY KING; Mahendra Seizes Ministers as 'Anti-Nationalists' and Dissolves Parliament NEPAL'S CABINET IS OUSTED BY KING (Published 1960)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  4. "Nepal Picks Prime Minister, In Transition to Democracy (Published 1991)". The New York Times. 1991-05-30. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  5. "Dhungana makes a comeback to politics after 23 years". kathmandupost.com. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  6. "NEPAL: parliamentary elections Pratinidhi Sabha, 1994". archive.ipu.org. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  7. Moore, Molly (1994-07-12). "NEPAL'S GOVERNMENT COLLAPSES AS KING DISSOLVES LEGISLATURE". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
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