KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 2
Programmes under the proportional representation (PR) electoral system for the House of Representatives (HoR) election are set to begin on December 6. The Election Commission (EC) on Sunday established the Office of the Election Officer for the HoR PR election at its Kantipath headquarters.
According to the election schedule approved by the EC, political parties wishing to participate in the PR system must submit applications between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm from December 7 to 9. The final list of parties registered for the PR election will be published between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm on December 10. Parties are required to submit their closed lists of proposed candidates on December 28 and 29, with the finalized lists scheduled for publication on February 3, 2026.
The office was inaugurated by Officiating Chief Election Officer Ram Prasad Bhandari. EC Secretary Mahadev Pantha has been designated as the Election Officer for the PR system, while Joint Secretary Yagya Prasad Bhattarai will serve as Assistant Election Officer. A total of 41 staff members have been deployed to manage the PR election.
On the occasion, Acting CEC Bhandari expressed confidence that all stakeholders would trust the nomination process, noting that representatives will be selected based on ethnic, geographic, and gender categories through a formula-based method with support from the National Statistics Office.
Under existing law, the 275 members of the House of Representatives are elected through two systems: direct election and proportional representation. Of these, 165 members are elected directly, while the remaining 110 are nominated through the PR system. For the direct (first-past-the-post) system, the programme for filing nominations at the respective election officers' offices is scheduled for January 20.
Also on Sunday, Finance Minister Rameshore Prasad Khanal and Minister for Law Anil Kumar Sinha held discussions with the Acting Chief Election Commissioner and other commissioners at the EC regarding pre-election preparations. The discussions focused on the support required from the government to ensure the successful conduct of the elections.
