Nepalese Constituent Assembly

The Nepalese Constituent Assembly was a unicameral body of 601 members formed as a result of the Constituent Assembly election that was held on April 10, 2008 in Nepal. The Constituent Assembly was tasked with writing a new constitution, and it would act as the interim legislature for a term of two years. 240 members were elected in single seat constituencies, 335 were elected through proportional representation, and the remaining 26 seats were reserved for nominated members.

The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN (M)) was the largest party in the Constituent Assembly, having won half of the constituency seats and about 30% of proportional representation seats. The Constituent Assembly declared a republic at its first meeting on May 28, 2008, abolishing the monarchy.

In late June 2008, the parties agreed to divide the 26 nominated seats in the Constituent Assembly between nine parties: the CPN (M) was to receive nine of these seats, while the Nepali Congress (NC) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN (UML)) (which respectively placed second and third in the election) would each receive five, the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum would receive two, and the Sadbhavana Party, the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party, Janamorcha Nepal, and the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) would each receive one nominated seat. Due to its failure in drafting a new constitution, the CA was dissolved on May 28th, 2012 after its original and extended total tenure of 4 years. The next Nepalese Constituent Assembly elections were to be held on November 22nd, 2012, but were postponed several times, and as of March 2013 they are to be held by June 21 at the latest.