Kathmandu, April 24:

The Election Commission today decided to make public the final results of the polls held under the Proportional Representation (PR) system tomorrow.

The EC is calling a meeting of political parties tomorrow to make a formal announcement of the seat allocation among the parties as per the votes they got under the PR system in the CA election.

“We have called a meeting with the parties to discuss the result of the PR polls. We want to know their views on the results of the PR polls,” said EC spokesperson Laxman Bhattarai, adding that the national and the international observers will also attend the meeting.

He said the vote-seat ratio will be calculated using the Modified Saint Lague method. It will not be reasonable to make an assumption of how many seats each party will secure on the basis of the votes they have polled, he said.

As per the final counting, the CPN-Maoist, Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML have got 29.21, 21.17 per cent and 20.26 per cent votes. The MJF, TMDP and RPP have got 6.45 per cent, 3.15 per cent and 2.46 per cent votes, respectively.

The counting of votes for both the first-past-the-post system and the proportional representation system has completed. The counting of votes from over 20,000 polling centres took 11 days.

Party-wise list a click away:

KATHMANDU: The result of 335 seats of the Constituent Assembly being allocated under the proportional representation system is just a click away, says a software engineer of the Election Commission.

“The EC has developed a special software to calculate the number of seats won by each party under the PR system of polls. It can be used right now,” said Matrika Prasad Shrestha, senior computer officer at the EC.

Once the number of votes obtained by a party is entered, the software, using the Modified Saint Lague Method (MSL), calculates and shows the number of seats the party got in the Constituent Assembly under the PR system, he said.

According to him, since the parties have agreed to the use of the MSL method for the calculation of PR seats, they will not create controversies by questioning the PR poll results to be announced by the commission.

“It is not necessary for each and ever voter to understand the process of seat calculation. The parties will agree to our calculation,” he said. — HNS