www.lawcommission.gov.np Part-14 Provincial Legislature 175. Provincial Legislature: The legislature of a Province shall be unicameral which shall be called as the Provincial Assembly. 176. Composition of Provincial Assembly: (1) Each Provincial Assembly shall consist of a number of members as follows:(a) Members in a number that is twice as many as the number of members elected to the House of Representatives from the concerned Province, through the first past the post electoral system; (b) The number of members to be set pursuant to clause (a) shall be considered to be sixty percent, and the rest forty percent members to be elected, through the proportional electoral system. (2) Election constituencies shall be set on the basis of geography and population as provided for in the federal law for the election to members pursuant to sub-clause (a) of clause (1). (3) Sixty percent members of the Provincial Assembly shall be elected in accordance with the first past the post electoral system and the forty percent members in accordance with the proportional electoral system. (4) Election to the members of the Provincial Assembly pursuant to clause (3) shall be held through adult suffrage by secret ballots in accordance with law. (5) Each citizen of Nepal who resides within the territory of the Province and who has completed the age of eighteen years shall have a right to vote in any one election constituency in accordance with law. (6) A federal law shall provide that in filing candidacy by political parties for the election to the Provincial Assembly under the proportional electoral system, representation shall be ensured on the basis of a closed list also from women, Dalit, indigenous nationalities (Aadibasi Janajati), Khas Arya, Madhesi, Tharu, Muslims and backward regions, minority communities, on the basis of population. In so filing candidacy, regard shall also be had to geographical balance of the concerned Province. 92