Country: | Nepal |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1994 Nepalese general election |
Previous Year: | 1994 |
Previous Mps: | List of MPs elected in the 1994 Nepalese general election |
Elected Mps: | List of MPs elected in the 1999 Nepalese general election |
Next Election: | 2008 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election |
Next Year: | 2008 (CA) |
Seats For Election: | All 205 seats in the Pratinidhi Sabha |
Majority Seats: | 103 |
Election Date: | 3 and 17 May 1999 |
Turnout: | 65.79%[1] |
Image1: | Krishna bhattarai.jpg |
Leader1: | Krishna Prasad Bhattarai |
Party1: | Nepali Congress |
Leaders Seat1: | Parsa 1 |
Last Election1: | 83 |
Seats1: | 111 |
Seat Change1: | 28 |
Popular Vote1: | 3,214,786 |
Percentage1: | 37.17% |
Swing1: | 3.70pp |
Leader2: | Madhav Kumar Nepal |
Party2: | Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) |
Leaders Seat2: | Rautahat 1 Rautahat 4 (vacated) |
Last Election2: | 88 |
Seats2: | 71 |
Seat Change2: | 17 |
Popular Vote2: | 2,734,568 |
Percentage2: | 31.61% |
Swing2: | 0.25pp |
Image3: | Surya bahadur thapa (cropped).png |
Leader3: | Surya Bahadur Thapa |
Party3: | Rastriya Prajatantra Party |
Leaders Seat3: | Dhankuta 2 Sarlahi 2 (lost) |
Last Election3: | 20 |
Seats3: | 11 |
Seat Change3: | 9 |
Popular Vote3: | 902,328 |
Percentage3: | 10.43% |
Swing3: | 8.08pp |
PM | |
Before Election: | Girija Prasad Koirala |
Before Party: | Nepali Congress |
After Election: | Krishna Prasad Bhattarai |
After Party: | Nepali Congress |
General elections were held in Nepal on 3 and 17 May 1999. The Nepali Congress emerged as the largest party, gaining 28 seats, while the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN–UML) lost 17.
The previous elections to the Pratinidhi Sabha in 1994 had seen the CPN–UML emerge victorious and the first-ever popularly elected communist government formed. Yet by 1999, infighting, such as the departure of the Bam Dev Gautam and C.P. Mainali led splinter group, had got in the way of policy decisions and put certain people off voting for the party.
Following the elections, the various parties found it difficult to cooperate and finalise a policy of the Maoist rebels, culminating in the 2002 dissolution of the parliament by King Gyanendra.
Following the 2006 Loktantra Andolan, in which all of the parties successful in 1999, except the royalist Rashtriya Prajatantra Party participated in the Seven Party Alliance, the House was reinstated in 2006.
Winners and runner-ups in the legislative elections of Nepal 1994 and 1999