House of Representatives (Nepal)

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The House of Representatives (Nepali: प्रतिनिधि सभा, romanized: Pratinidhi Sabhā) is the lower house of the bicameral Federal Parliament of Nepal, with the upper house being the National Assembly. Members of the House of Representatives are elected through a parallel voting system. They hold their seats for five years or until the body is dissolved by the president on the advice of the council of ministers. The House meets in the under construction Parliament house at Singha Durbar; before the 2025 Gen Z protests, it met at the International Convention Centre. The House has 275 members; 165 elected from single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting and 110 elected through proportional electoral system where voters vote for political parties, considering the whole country as a single election constituency. The House of Representatives, unless dissolved, continues to operate for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting. However, in a state of emergency, the term...

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