Balendra Shah’s RSP party of wins majority: Nepal Election Commission

Balendra Shah's RSP party wins a parliamentary majority in Nepal, marking a significant shift in the political landscape.

Nepal’s centrist Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), the party of rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah, won a majority in parliament with 182 seats, Election Commission results showed Thursday (March 12, 2026).

The March 5 vote elected a new 275-member House of Representatives, the lower house of Parliament, with 165 seats chosen directly and 110 through a proportional representation vote.

“The counting of votes for the election of members of the House of Representatives... has been completed,” Election Commission spokesman Narayan Prasad Bhattarai said in a statement.

In direct elections, RSP won 125 of the 165, and secured another 57 in PR votes, leaving them only two seats short of securing a powerful two-thirds majority.

The Nepali Congress, which was the biggest party in the last parliament, secured 38 seats, with the Marxists of now-defeated K.P. Sharma Oli trailing with 25 seats. The Maoists have seven seats.

A supermajority for RSP leaves Nepal’s Parliament with weakest Opposition