1991 Nepalese general election

none parliamentary 12 May 1991 Nepal 1986 Nepalese general election 1986 3rd Rastriya Panchayat 2nd House of Representatives (Nepal) 1994 Nepalese general election 1994 All 205 seats in the House of Representatives 103 65.15% 120x120px Krishna bhattarai.jpg Krishna Prasad Bhattarai Nepali Congress 110 2,752,452 39.50% ManMohanAdhikari.jpg Man Mohan Adhikari Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) 69 2,040,102 29.27% Baburam Bhattarai (cropped).jpg Baburam Bhattarai SJM 9 351,904 5.05% Gajendra Narayan Singh NSP 6 298,610 4.28% Lokendra_Bahadur_Chand_in_2022.png Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Chand) 3 478,604 6.87% Lokendra Bahadur Chand Surya_bahadur_thapa_(cropped).png RPP (Thapa) 3 392,499 5.63% Surya Bahadur Thapa 1991 Nepalese general election - Results by constituency.svg Results by constituency Prime Minister Prime Minister after election Krishna Prasad Bhattarai Nepali Congress Girija Prasad Koirala Nepali Congress 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 and were a result of the 1990 revolution forcing King Birendra to restore a multi-party system.Kingdom of Nepal: Parliamentary Elections, May 12, 1991 https://www.ifes.org/publications/kingdom-nepal-parliamentary-elections-may-12-1991 2020-12-12 www.ifes.org en1960-12-16 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) en-US The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1960/12/16/archives/nepals-cabinet-is-ousted-by-king-mahendra-seizes-ministers-as.html 2020-12-12 0362-4331 Although the Nepali Congress won the most seats, its leader Krishna Prasad Bhattarai lost in his own constituency, Kathmandu 1. The chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (UML), Man Mohan Adhikari, was elected in Sunsari 1, whilst Madan Bhandari, another prominent leader of the party, was elected in both Kathmandu 1 and Kathmandu 5.Election history of Nepal (नेपालको निर्वाचन इतिहास) Election Commission Nepal 2017 978-9937-0-2116-6 Kathmandu 2017 634-640 Nepali Election history of Nepal Results File:Nepal PratinidhiSabha 1991.svg Nepali Congress 2752452 110 Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) 2040102 69 Rastriya Prajatantra Party (Chand) 478604 3 Rashtriya Prajatantra Party (Thapa) 392499 1 United People's Front of Nepal 351904 9 Nepal Sadbhawana Party 298610 6 Communist Party of Nepal (Democratic) 177323 2 red Nepal Workers Peasants Party 91335 2 Rastriya Janamukti Party 34509 0 Communist Party of Nepal (Burma) 16698 0 red Janata Dal (Samajbadi Prajatantrik) 5760 0 Nepal Rastriya Jana Party 5732 0 Communist Party of Nepal (Amatya) 4846 0 red Rastriya Janata Party (H) 4406 0 Rastriya Janata Party (Nepal) 4280 0 Nepal Conservative Party 2562 0 Bahu Jana Janatadal 2012 0 Janawadi Morcha Nepal 1518 0 Ekata Party 94 0 Dalit Majdoor Kisan Party 92 0 Independents 303723 3 322023 11191777 Kingdom of Nepal: Parliamentary Elections 1991-05-12 International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) https://www.ifes.org/sites/default/files/r01771_0.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20210713053108/https://www.ifes.org/sites/default/files/r01771_0.pdf 2021-07-13 dead IFES R01771 Aftermath Following the result of the election, Nepali Congress came to power and Girija Prasad Koirala became Prime Minister.1991-05-30 Nepal Picks Prime Minister, In Transition to Democracy (Published 1991) en-US The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/30/world/nepal-picks-prime-minister-in-transition-to-democracy.html 2020-12-12 0362-4331 The House met for the first time in May 1991. Daman Nath Dhungana served as the Speaker of the House.Dhungana makes a comeback to politics after 23 years https://kathmandupost.com/miscellaneous/2017/11/03/dhungana-makes-a-comeback-to-politics-after-23-years 2020-12-12 kathmandupost.com English The parliament could not complete its full five-year term with Koirala asking King Birendra to dissolve the house in July 1994 after losing a no-confidence motion with some members of his own party voting against him.NEPAL: parliamentary elections Pratinidhi Sabha, 1994 http://archive.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2386_94.htm 2020-12-12 archive.ipu.orgMoore Molly 1994-07-12 NEPAL'S GOVERNMENT COLLAPSES AS KING DISSOLVES LEGISLATURE en-US Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/07/12/nepals-government-collapses-as-king-dissolves-legislature/b355d08e-4d19-4eda-9102-0f7188c6b115/ 2020-12-12 0190-8286 See also 2nd House of Representatives (Nepal) References Category:General elections in Nepal Nepal General Nepal