1959 Nepalese general election

none 1959 Nepalese general election Kingdom of Nepal 1961 parliamentary no 1st House of Representatives (Nepal) 1971 Nepalese general election 1971 18 February–3 April 1959Joshi Bhuwan Lal https://books.google.com/books?id=MX22o4PJ3Q0C&pg=PA295 Democratic Innovations in Nepal: A Case Study of Political Acculturation Rose Leo E. 1966 University of California Press en 295 All 109 seats in the House of Representatives 55 seats needed for a majority 4,246,368Devkota Grishma Bahadur http://www.madanpuraskar.org/search/monographsview.php?showdetail=&ID=8612 Nepalko Rajnitik Darpan II 1976 Bhattarai Bandhu Prakashan Nepali 111 1,791,381 BP Koirala.jpg B. P. Koirala Nepali Congress No. 32 (Won)2017-12-01 केवल एक पार्टी प्रमुखले जितेका थिए पहिलो आमनिर्वाचन Only one party leader won the first general election https://deshsanchar.com/2017/12/01/358/ 2020-06-17 देशसञ्चार Nepali 74 666,898 37.2% 3x4.svg Randhir Subba ne रणधीर सुब्बा No. 26 (Lost)Kafle Chandra ४५ दिन लगाएर गरिएको २०१५ सालको चुनाव The election of 2015 BS was conducted in 45 days https://www.setopati.com/politics/103408/ 2020-06-17 Setopati Nepali Nepal Rashtrabadi Gorkha Parishad 19 305,118 17.1% Prime Minister Prime Minister after election Subarna Shamsher Rana Nepali Congress B. P. Koirala Nepali Congress General elections were held in Nepal from 18 February to 3 April 1959 to elect the 109 members of the first House of Representatives, the lower house of the Parliament of Nepal.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p629 0-19-924958-X They were held under the provisions of the 1959 constitution, which had been adopted on 12 February.Nohlen et al., p624 More than 4.25 million people out of an overall population of about 8.55 million (1954) were eligible to vote.https://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/1959_11/14/first_general_elections_in_nepal_ii.pdf First general election of Nepal 1959 Rama Devi Pant The economic weekly 1959-04-04 2020-06-17 2020-06-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20200621085620/https://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/1959_11/14/first_general_elections_in_nepal_ii.pdf dead Voter turnout was 42.18%.Parajulee, Ramjee P. The democratic transition in Nepal 2000 Rowman & Littlefield 0-8476-9577-8 Lanham 46 41951317 The result was a victory for the Nepali Congress, winning 74 of the 109 seats with 38% of the vote.Nohlen et al., p654 B. P. Koirala became the first democratically elected and 22nd Prime Minister of Nepal.http://constitutionnet.org/sites/default/files/Timeline.pdf Timeline constitutionnet.org 2020-06-17 Campaign 786 candidates competed for 109 seats in the House of Representatives; 268 ran as independents, with the others representing nine parties. The Nepali Congress contested 108 constituencies, the Gorkha Parishad contested in 86 seats and the Communist Party of Nepal contested 47 seat. According to former CIA officer Duane Clarridge, U.S. intelligence officials discussed providing limited covert support to B. P. Koirala and the Nepali Congress during the 1959 election in order to "promote political stability and support the development of democratic institutions in Nepal".Clarridge Duane R. A Spy for All Seasons: My Life in the CIA Scribner 2002 64–69 9780743245364Levin Dov H. 2016-09-19 Partisan electoral interventions by the great powers: Introducing the PEIG Dataset http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0738894216661190 Conflict Management and Peace Science 36 1 88–106 10.1177/0738894216661190 157114479 0738-8942 subscription Results Only four parties secured the designation of 'National party' in accordance with the Election Act of Nepal 1959. The party presidents of eight of the nine parties failed to win a seat, with Nepali Congress Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala the only party president to be elected, winning in constituency No. 32 (Morang South Biratnagar West). Nepali Congress leader Subarna Shamsher Rana contested three constituencies (No. 52 (Bara Parsa, Central North), constituency No. 53 (Bara, East Parsa) and constituency No. 91 (Gulmi, South-West)) and won them all. Another Nepal Congress leader Surya Prasad Upadhyaya contested two constituencies (constituency No. 5 (Kathmandu Valley) and constituency No. 14 (Ramechhap, South)) but was defeated in both. Gorkha Parishad president Randhir Subba was defeated in constituency No. 26 Dhankuta. Tarai Congress president Vedananda Jha lost in constituency No. 39 Siraha. Communist Party of Nepal General Secretary Keshar Jung Rayamajhi was defeated in Palpa Constituency No. 93. Democratic General Assembly president Ranganath Sharma was also defeated in Kathmandu Constituency No. 5. Dilli Raman Regmi of the Nepali National Congress and Bhadrakali Mishra of Nepal Praja Parishad (Mishra) were also defeated. Tanka Prasad Acharya was defeated in from Kathmandu Constituency No. 5.Nepal, Jagat Pāhilo Sāmsād : BP-Mahendra Takraaw 978-9937-9053-6-7 Sangrila Books Kaṭhamandu 944022824 File:Nepal PratinidhiSabha 1959.svg Nepali Congress 666898 74 Nepal Rashtrabadi Gorkha Parishad 305118 19 Samyukta Prajatantra Party 177408 5 #3F54DF Communist Party of Nepal 129142 4 crimson Prajatantrik Mahasabha 59896 0 Nepal Praja Parishad (Mishra) 59820 1 #BB70B8 Nepal Praja Parishad (Acharya) 53038 2 #9D3E7D Tarai Congress 36107 0 Nepali National Congress 12707 0 Independents 291247 4 4246468 Nohlen et al Aftermath The speaker of the first House of Representatives was Krishna Prasad Bhattarai from Nepali Congress.'चक्रव्यूह'मा सभामुख, किन हुन्छ काण्डैकाण्ड ? https://www.janatasamachar.com/2020/01/163292 2020-06-18 Janata Samachar Nepali 2020-06-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20200619045210/https://www.janatasamachar.com/2020/01/163292 dead The term of the parliament started from 27 May 1959 and it was dissolved on 15 December 1960. See also 1st House of Representatives (Nepal) References External links Rama Devi Pant: First General Elections in Nepal-I Recent Political Trends, - The Economic Weekly, 21 February 1959, p. 285-290 Rama Devi Pant: First General Elections in Nepal-II https://web.archive.org/web/20200621085620/https://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/1959_11/14/first_general_elections_in_nepal_ii.pdf 2020-06-21 , - The Economic Weekly, 4 April 1959, p. 483-485 Nepal General General Category:General elections in Nepal Nepal Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results