Electoral system for national legislature

Nepal, Constitution 2015, accessed 23 April 2022

Article 84. CONSTITUTION OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

1.The House of Representatives shall consist of two hundred and seventy five members as follows:

a) One hundred and sixty five members elected through the first-past-the-post electoral system consisting of one member from each of the one hundred and sixty five electoral constituencies formed by dividing Nepal into 165 constituencies based on geography, and population.

b) One hundred and ten members elected from proportional representation electoral system where voters vote for parties, while treating the whole country as a single electoral constituency.

165 members are elected using FPTP from single-member districts; 110 members are elected using closed List PR from a single nationwide constituency.