19 July 2008 (first round) 21 July 2008 (second round)
2015 →
Candidate
Ram Baran Yadav
Ram Raja Prasad Singh
Party
NC
CPN (Maoist)
Home state
Dhanusa
Saptari
Running mate
Parmananda Jha
Shanta Shrestha
Electoral vote
308
282
Percentage
52.20%
47.80%
Elected President
Ram Baran Yadav
NC
Politics of Nepal
Constitution
Fundamental Rights and Duties
Human rights
LGBT rights
Government
President: Ram Chandra Poudel
Vice President: Ram Sahay Yadav
Executive:
Prime Minister (list): Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Council of Ministers: Dahal III
Civil Services
Cabinet Secretary
Federal Parliament:
House of Representatives
Speaker: Dev Raj Ghimire
Deputy Speaker: Indira Ranamagar
House Leader: Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Opposition Leader: vacant
National Assembly
Chairman: Ganesh Prasad Timilsina
House Leader: Devendra Dahal
Opposition Leader: vacant
Judiciary:
Supreme Court
Chief Justice of Nepal: Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana
District Courts
Elections
Election Commission
Political parties
Recent elections
Presidential: 2015
2018
2023
General: 2013
2017
2022
Provincial: 2017
2022
Local: 2017
2022
Federalism
Administrative divisions
Provinces
Provincial governments
Provincial Assemblies
Governors
Chief Ministers
Local governments
Districts
Municipalities
Rural Municipalities
Foreign relations
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Minister: Narayan Prakash Saud
Diplomatic missions of / in Nepal
Nationality law
Passport
Visa requirements
Visa policy
Related topics
Democracy movement
Civil War
Nepal portal
Other countries
v
t
e
Indirect presidential elections were held in Nepal in July 2008. The first round of voting was held on 19 July, with a run-off on 21 July. The Nepalese Constituent Assembly (CA) elected in April 2008 elected a new president and vice-president after the Fifth Amendment to the Interim Constitution was passed on 14 July.[1] This would be the first President to be elected after Nepal became a republic a few months earlier.
In the newly passed amendment, the majority party will form the government, the CA will elect the new president on the basis of majority and a new provision that the Opposition Leader will be a member of the Constitutional Council.[2] The leading political parties, Nepali Congress, Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) engaged in discussions regarding who would be the new president. The Nepali Congress wanted Prime Minister and interim Head of State Girija Prasad Koirala while the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) wanted its former Secretary-General Madhav Kumar Nepal as president. However, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) wants an independent figure as president rather than party figures such as Koirala or Nepal. The Maoists won the most seats in the CA, though their party needs to form a coalition government with the other parties.[3]
^"CA to Elect President on 19 July". Nepal News. 2008-07-14. Retrieved 2008-07-21.[permanent dead link]
^"Fifth Amendment Passed; Coast Cleared for Forming Majority Govt". Nepal News. 2008-07-14. Retrieved 2008-07-21.[permanent dead link]
^"Nepal's Top Political Parties Begin Search for Country's First President". International Herald Tribune. 2008-07-15. Retrieved 2008-07-21.
and 29 Related for: 2008 Nepalese presidential election information
Indirect presidentialelections were held in Nepal in July 2008. The first round of voting was held on 19 July, with a run-off on 21 July. The Nepalese Constituent...
The fourth presidentialelection of Nepal, to elect the country's third president since the abolition of the monarchy, was held on 9 March 2023. The term...
Constituent Assembly elections were held in Nepal on 10 April 2008, having been postponed from earlier dates of 7 June 2007[citation needed] and 22 November...
first election was the 2008Nepalesepresidentialelection. The parties failed to agree on candidates for president or vice president, so an election took...
declare Nepal a republic. May 28 - The Nepalese Constituent Assembly meets for the first time after the 2008Nepalese Constituent Assembly election and votes...
were removed from the king of Nepal, and the Nepalese Constituent Assembly elected in the 2008 Constituent Assembly election was to decide in its first meeting...
Indirect presidentialelections were held in Nepal on 28 October 2015. Bidya Devi Bhandari of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)...
Presidentialelections were held in Taiwan on 13 January 2024 as part of the 2024 general elections. Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party...
Nepaleseelection in 2017, an electoral college could be established, the election took place three years after the previous presidentialelections despite...
1999 Nepalese general election Winners and runner-ups in the legislative elections of Nepal 1994 and 1999 "Previous Election Facts and Figures". 2008-10-21...
participate. An indirect presidentialelection was held in Nepal on 19 July 2008 with a presidential run-off on 21 July. The Nepalese Constituent Assembly...
allegedly far wealthier than the Nepalese monarchs. The prospective bride's mother warned her daughter that marrying the Nepalese crown prince might mean a drop...
This electoral calendar 2008 lists the national/federal direct elections held in 2008 in the de jure and de facto sovereign states and their dependent...
are three types of elections in Nepal: elections to the federal parliament, elections to the provincial assemblies and elections to the local government...
chance to vote, thus denying them their rights. During the 2008 Zimbabwean presidentialelection, reports surfaced that those who had chosen not to vote...
China from 1792 to 1865. The Anglo-Nepalese War ended in British victory and resulted in the ceding some Nepalese territory in the Treaty of Sugauli....
(Bangladesh Muktijuddho Sanmanona) 2008Nepalesepresidentialelection President of Nepal List of prime ministers of Nepal ".::::: Nepali Congress Party :::::"...
ten-year civil war, the Nepalese parliament voted to abolish the monarchy in June 2006, and Nepal became a federal republic on 28 May 2008. A new constitution...
rāṣṭrapati) is the head of state of Nepal and commander in chief of the Nepalese Armed Forces. The office was created in May 2008 after the country was declared...
Nepalnews, July 14, 2008. "RPP-Nepal to boycott the presidentialelection" Archived 2008-10-12 at the Wayback Machine, Nepalnews, July 18, 2008. "Archived copy"...
unsolved murder. He was defeated in the 2008 Constituent Assembly election from Jhapa–7. He also lost the election for the position of chairman to Jhala...
"Deposed Nepal king surrenders crown". The Guardian. 11 June 2008. Archived from the original on 25 November 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020. "Nepalese celebrate...
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 29 December 2008. The two main parties in the election were the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by...
leaving the country in a legal vacuum. New elections were held on 19 November 2013 to the Second Nepalese Constituent Assembly and political leaders pledged...
Kumar Nepal (Nepali: माधवकुमार नेपाल, [madʱʌbˈkumar neˈpal] ; born 6 March 1953), is a Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister of Nepal. He served...
Nepal (Nepali: नेपालको प्रधानमन्त्री, romanized: Nepālko Pradhānmantrī) in modern form was called by different names at different times of Nepalese history...
Global Information
Nepal portal 
