1.2 Development of the Election System in Nepal

The ladder (the exam's tour — dates well-established): 1. The first stirrings: the 1948 Government of Nepal Act's restricted franchise (the elite's first taste) and the 1951 Revolution's promise of adult franchise. 2. The first general election (2015 B.S./1959) — the adult-franchise election (Nepali Congress's majority; the first transfer by ballot) — then the 1960 royal takeover's interruption. 3. The Panchayat era (1962–1990): the 1962 Constitution's partyless Rastriya Panchayat (the class-and-organisation constituencies; the 1980 referendum on the panchayat-vs-party question — the choice by counting, but not the competition). 4. The democratic restoration (1990): the Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal 2047 — the multiparty constitutional monarchy with the independent Election Commission and the single-member FPTP House; the elections of 2048 B.S. (1991), the 2051 (1994) mid-term, and the 2055 (1999) cycle (the era's litigation — the prescribed cases' cluster, Unit 7). 5. The conflict-and-transition era: the 2062/63 People's Movement; the Interim Constitution 2063; the first Constituent Assembly (2064/2008 — the first mixed system: 240 FPTP + 335 PR + 26 nominated), the second CA (2070/2013) — and the Constitution 2015. 6. The federal republic's system: the three-tier elections of 2017 and 2022 (the 165+110 HoR, the 59-seat National Assembly's indirect college, and the 753 local levels — Unit 2's detail) under the 2015 Constitution's articles (84–87, 222–223, 245–247, 286) and…