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Nepal

Leadership

Portrait of Balendra Shah
Balendra Shah
Prime Minister
Metro News · Photo source · CC BY 3.0
Portrait of Ram Chandra Paudel
Ram Chandra Paudel
President
Houses of the Oireachtas · Photo source · CC BY 2.0

Balendra Shah serves as prime minister. Profile source

National government

Balendra Shah took office as prime minister on 27 March 2026. Official prime minister profile

NEPAL · ELECTIONS & REPRESENTATION

Votes, seats & parliament

Dated source snapshot

Explore Nepal’s recorded parliamentary results and how each chamber is selected. Leadership portraits appear above; the charts below show seats reported in the linked election records.

Chambers recorded22 not marked suspended in this source
Directly elected1Other chambers may use a different selection method
Results coverage1 / 2Chambers with a party-seat breakdown

These are dated election records, not live chamber membership. By-elections, vacancies, appointments and changes of party may alter the current composition. A seat total can cover only the seats allocated in that result; it does not automatically represent the full statutory chamber.

Directly elected

House of Representatives

Recorded selection · 5 March 2026

275seats shown
Rastriya Swatantra Party182
Nepali Congress (NC)38
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist, UML)25
Nepali Communist Party17
Shram Sanskriti Party7
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal (RPP)5
Independents1

Each seat icon represents one reported seat. Colours distinguish parties within this chart; the arc is a visual grouping, not a seating plan.

Largest allocation in this resultRastriya Swatantra Party182 of 275 reported seats. This alone does not identify a governing coalition.

Next recorded renewal projection28 February 2031A source projection, not a confirmed polling-day announcement.
View the source record ↗

Indirectly elected

National Assembly

Recorded selection · 25 January 2026

Seat breakdown awaiting verification

A complete, reconciled party-seat chart is unavailable in this source snapshot. Follow the chamber record for election and membership information.

Next recorded renewal projection31 January 2028A source projection, not a confirmed polling-day announcement.
View the source record ↗

Regional election maps require separately verified geographic results. National seat totals are shown here without inferring regional winners.

Inter-Parliamentary Union: Parliamentary elections, November 2026. Terms of use · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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