Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08KATHMANDU449
2008-04-21 09:30:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Kathmandu
Cable title:
NEPAL'S CA ELECTION: POLLING COMPLETE
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UNCLAS KATHMANDU 000449
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PTER KDEM NP
SUBJECT: NEPAL'S CA ELECTION: POLLING COMPLETE
REF: KATHMANDU 438
First-Past-the-Post Update
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UNCLAS KATHMANDU 000449
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PTER KDEM NP
SUBJECT: NEPAL'S CA ELECTION: POLLING COMPLETE
REF: KATHMANDU 438
First-Past-the-Post Update
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1. On April 19, the two final constituencies concluded
voting for the April 10 Constituent Assembly (CA) election.
As of noon local time on April 21, the Communist Party of
Nepal - Maoist had secured a full half of the 240 total
first-past-the-post seats contested in the CA election. The
Election Commission has announced the results for all but one
of the seats.
Maoist - 120 seats; 50 percent
Nepali Congress (NC) - 37 seats; 15.4 percent
Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist (UML) - 33
seats; 13.8 percent
Madhesi People's Rights Forum (MPRF) - 29 seats; 12.1 percent
Other Madhesi parties - 13 seats; 5.4 percent
Minor left parties - 5 seats; 2.1 percent
Independents - 2 seats; 0.8 percent
Proportional Representation Update
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2. Counting for the 335 proportional representation (PR)
seats is ongoing. The distribution of current PR votes is as
follows:
Maoist - 30.8 percent
NC - 21.5 percent
UML - 20.8 percent
MPRF - 5.7 percent
Other Madhesi parties - 4 percent
"Royalist" parties - 4.4 percent
Other (including minor left parties) - 12.8 percent
Significant Loss
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3. Mahanta Thakur, chairman of the Terai Madhes Democratic
Party, lost to an MPRF candidate. Thakur is the only one of
the three United Democratic Madhesi Front leaders not to win
a seat in the CA.
POWELL
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PTER KDEM NP
SUBJECT: NEPAL'S CA ELECTION: POLLING COMPLETE
REF: KATHMANDU 438
First-Past-the-Post Update
--------------
1. On April 19, the two final constituencies concluded
voting for the April 10 Constituent Assembly (CA) election.
As of noon local time on April 21, the Communist Party of
Nepal - Maoist had secured a full half of the 240 total
first-past-the-post seats contested in the CA election. The
Election Commission has announced the results for all but one
of the seats.
Maoist - 120 seats; 50 percent
Nepali Congress (NC) - 37 seats; 15.4 percent
Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist (UML) - 33
seats; 13.8 percent
Madhesi People's Rights Forum (MPRF) - 29 seats; 12.1 percent
Other Madhesi parties - 13 seats; 5.4 percent
Minor left parties - 5 seats; 2.1 percent
Independents - 2 seats; 0.8 percent
Proportional Representation Update
--------------
2. Counting for the 335 proportional representation (PR)
seats is ongoing. The distribution of current PR votes is as
follows:
Maoist - 30.8 percent
NC - 21.5 percent
UML - 20.8 percent
MPRF - 5.7 percent
Other Madhesi parties - 4 percent
"Royalist" parties - 4.4 percent
Other (including minor left parties) - 12.8 percent
Significant Loss
--------------
3. Mahanta Thakur, chairman of the Terai Madhes Democratic
Party, lost to an MPRF candidate. Thakur is the only one of
the three United Democratic Madhesi Front leaders not to win
a seat in the CA.
POWELL