| Seats For Election: | 19 seats to the National Assembly |
| Country: | Nepal |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Party1: | Nepali Congress |
| Seat Change1: | 3 |
| Seats After1: | 10 |
| Seats1: | 6 |
| Seats Before1: | 7 |
| Party2: | Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) |
| Seat Change2: | 1 |
| Seats After2: | 15 |
| Seats2: | 5 |
| Seats Before2: | 14 |
| Party3: | Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) |
| Seat Change3: | 1 |
| Seats After3: | 8 |
| Seats3: | 5 |
| Seats Before3: | 7 |
| Party4: | Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) |
| Seat Change4: | 7 |
| Seats4: | 1 |
| Seats After4: | 17 |
| Seats Before4: | 24 |
| Party5: | People's Socialist Party, Nepal (2020) |
| Seat Change5: | 1 |
| Seats After5: | 3 |
| Seats5: | 1 |
| Seats Before5: | 2 |
| Party6: | Rastriya Janamorcha |
| Seat Change6: | 1 |
| Seats After6: | 1 |
| Seats Before6: | 0 |
| Seats6: | 1 |
| Election Date: | 26 January 2022 |
| Previous Election: | 2020 Nepalese National Assembly election |
| Previous Year: | 2020 |
| Next Election: | 2024 Nepalese National Assembly election |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Chairperson of the Assembly | |
| Before Election: | Ganesh Prasad Timilsina |
| Before Party: | Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) |
| After Election: | Ganesh Prasad Timilsina |
| After Party: | Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) |
National Assembly elections were held in Nepal on 26 January 2022 in order to elect 19 of the 20 retiring Class II members of the National Assembly, the upper house of the Federal Parliament of Nepal.[1] Members of the National Assembly are elected through indirect ballot and serve six year terms with one third of the members retiring every two years.[2] However, the retiring members served only four year terms due to the entire house being elected in 2018 when a lottery was held to determine two, four and six year term members.[3]
Eight members of the National Assembly are elected from each of the seven provinces of Nepal and 3 members are appointed by the President for a total of 59 members. Composition of members from each province have to include three women, a Dalit, and a disabled or member of a minority. The three remaining are categorized as open/other candidates. All members elected from this election must be from the same category as the retiring members.[2]
Members were elected by first-past-the-post voting by an electoral college composed of members of the respective provincial assembly and Chairperson/Mayor and Vice Chairperson/Deputy Mayor of the local levels within the province.[4] Each provincial assembly member vote has a weight of forty eight whereas each Chairperson/Mayor/Vice Chairperson/Deputy Mayor vote have a weight of eighteen. This electoral college will elect 19 members while 1 member, whose term will also end concurrently, will be nominated by the President on the recommendation of the Government of Nepal.
According to Article 87 of the Constitution, a person who meets the following criteria is qualified to become a member of the National Assembly:[5]
| Electors | Province No. 1 | Madhesh | Bagmati | Gandaki | Lumbini | Karnali | Sudurpashchim | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provincial Assembly | 92 | 104 | 109 | 59 | 81 | 35 | 52 | 532 | |
| Local Level | 272 | 268 | 237 | 170 | 215 | 156 | 175 | 1493 | |
| Total | 364 | 372 | 346 | 229 | 296 | 191 | 227 | 2025[6] |
The key dates are listed below
| 19 November 2021 | Cabinet announces election date | |
| 4 January 2022 | Candidate nomination begins | |
| 9 January 2022 | Nominations finalized and published | |
| 10 January 2022 | Election code of conduct starts | |
| 26 January 2022 | Election day – polling centers open 07:00 to 17:00 | |
| 31 January 2022 | Final result announced and presented to President | |
| 4 March 2021 | Tenure of incumbent Class II members ends |
| 1. | Nepali Congress | Sher Bahadur Deuba | 6 | 4 | 2 | [7] | |||
| 2. | Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) | 5 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| 3. | Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) | Madhav Kumar Nepal | 5 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| 4. | People's Socialist Party, Nepal | Upendra Yadav | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 5. | Rastriya Janamorcha | Chitra Bahadur K.C. | 1 | 1 | 0 |
As the creation of the Nepal Communist Party was reverted by the Constitutional court, its 47 seats total in 2020 are shown here by the subsequent party of its members : CPN (UML), CPN (Maoist Centre) and CPN (US).
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| Parties | Seats | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total in 2020 | Total before | Up | Won | Total after | +/- | |||
| CPN (UML) | 0 | 24 | 8 | 1 | 17 | 7 | ||
| CPN (Maoist Centre) | 0 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 1 | ||
| Nepali Congress | 6 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 3 | ||
| CPN (US) | 0 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 1 | ||
| People's Socialist Party | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Loktantrik Samajbadi Party | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Rastriya Janamorcha | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Independent | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Nominated[11] | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Nepal Communist Party (NCP) | 47 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 59 | 59 | 20 | 20 | 59 | - | ||
