The Provincial Assembly of Sudurpashchim Pradesh also known as the Sudurpashchim Pradesh Sabha, (Nepali: सुदूरपश्चिम प्रदेश सभा) is a
unicameral governing and law making body of
Sudurpashchim Province
Sudurpashchim Province ( ne, सुदूरपश्चिम प्रदेश, ''Sudurpashchim Province'') (''Far-West Province'') is one of the seven provinces established by the new constitution of Nepal which was adopted on 20 September ...
, one of the seven
Provinces in Nepal. The assembly is seated a
Dhangadhi in
Kailali District at the District Coordination Committee Hall. The assembly has 53 members of whom 32 are elected through
first-past-the-post voting and 21 are elected through
proportional representation. The term of the assembly is 5 years unless dissolved earlier
The present First Provincial Assembly was constituted in 2017, after the
2017 provincial elections. The election resulted in a majority for the alliance of
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and
CPN (Maoist Centre)
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. The next election will take place when the five year term ends by November 2022.
History
The Provincial Assembly of Sudurpashchim Province is under Article 175 of the
Constitution of Nepal 2015 which guarantees a provincial legislative for each province in the country. The first provincial elections were conducted for all seven provinces in Nepal and the elections in Sudurpashchim was conducted for 53 seats to the assembly. The election resulted in a victory for the
CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) CPN may refer to:
* Calpine Corporation, New York Stock Exchange symbol CPN
* Canadian Perinatal Network
* ''Carnivorous Plant Newsletter''
* Carpinteria (Amtrak station), California, Amtrak station code CPN
* Caspian Airlines (Iran), ICAO airline ...
and
CPN (Maoist Centre)
The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) (), abbreviated CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN-Maoist Centre, CPN Maoist Centre, or CPN (MC), is the third largest political party in Nepal. It was founded in 1994 after breaking away from the Communist P ...
alliance which later went on to form a coalition government under
Trilochan Bhatta from
Maoist Centre. The first meeting of the provincial assembly was held on 4 February 2018. Arjun Bahadur Thapa from
CPN (UML) was elected as the first speaker of the provincial assembly,
and Nirmala Badal Joshi from
Maoist Centre as the first deputy speaker of the provincial assembly.
List of assemblies
Committees
Article 195 of the Constitution of Nepal provides provincial assemblies the power to form special committees in order to manage working procedures.
Political parties
See also
*
Sudurpashchim Province
Sudurpashchim Province ( ne, सुदूरपश्चिम प्रदेश, ''Sudurpashchim Province'') (''Far-West Province'') is one of the seven provinces established by the new constitution of Nepal which was adopted on 20 September ...
*
Provincial assemblies of Nepal
References
{{Legislatures of Nepal
Government of Sudurpashchim Province
Province legislatures of Nepal
Unicameral legislatures