Kathmandu, November 22
The Election Commission has revised the voter weightage for participants in the National Assembly election scheduled for January 2024.
Following the 2021 census, the commission has determined the new vote share for provincial assembly members, mayors and deputy mayors and chair and vice-chairs of the local level.
Shaligram Sharma Paudel, the spokesperson of the Commission, revealed that during the Wednesday meeting of the commission, the votes of provincial assembly members were set at 53, while the votes of the chair and vice-chair of the rural municipality and the mayor and deputy mayor of the municipality were fixed at 19.
Previously, one provincial assembly member held 48 votes, and local-level people’s representatives had 18 votes.
The commission has recommended to the government that the National Assembly election date be scheduled for on or before January 11.
