The counting of proportional representation votes have been finished. According to Surya Prasad Aryal, the assistant spokesperson of the Election Commission (EC), a total of 10,560,082 votes have been counted.
Only seven parties have crossed the threshold out of 47 parties who contested the elections under the PR category of the House of Representatives (HoR).
According to the EC, seven parties -- CPN (UML), Nepali Congress, CPN (Maoist Center), Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), Janata Samajbadi Party and Janamat Party -- have crossed the threshold.
Apart from being able to elect PR members of parliament, they also received the recognition of the national party status.
The parties should win at least one first-past-the-post (FPTP) seat in the HoR apart from crossing the threshold to qualify for the national party.
But 40 out of 47 parties participating in PR elections could not cross the threshold.
Even after winning 10 FPTP seats, the ruling (United Socialist) could not cross the threshold. It got 298,391 PR votes. Since the Unified Socialist did not cross the threshold, the votes are lost.
The Nagarik Unmukti Party (NUP) also received 271,722 votes but could not cross the threshold.
Among the seven national parties, UML has got the highest number of PR votes. According to the statistics of the EC, it got 2,845,641 PR votes followed by Nepali Congress with 2,715,225 while Maoist Center received 1,175,684 votes.
Similarly, the RSP got 1,130,344 votes, RPP (588,849), JSP (421,314) while Janamat Party received 394,655 PR votes.
Parties and votes received by them are as follows:
CPN (UML)
2,845,641
Nepali Congress
27,15,225
Maoist Centre/Nepal Samajbadi Party
1,175,684
RSP
1,130,344
RPP
588,849
JSP
421,313
Janamat Party
394,655
CPN (Unified Socialist)
298,391
Nagarik Unmukti Party
271,722
Loktantrik Samajbadi Party
167,367
Nepal Workers and Peasants Party
75,168
