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Koshi Provincial Assembly कोशी प्रदेश सभा
2nd Koshi Provincial Assembly
Type
Type	Unicameral legislature of Koshi Province (Nepal)
History
Founded	2018
New session started	1 January 2023 (2023-01-01)
Leadership
Speaker	Ambar Bahadur Bista, RPP since 9 January 2024
Deputy Speaker	Sirjana Danuwar, CPN (UML) since 14 January 2023
Leader of the House	Hikmat Kumar Karki, CPN (UML) since 9 January 2023
Leader of the Opposition	Indra Bahadur Angbo, CPN (MC) since 9 January 2023
Structure
Political groups	Government (70)      CPN (UML): 40      Congress: 29 Opposition (23)      CPN (MC): 13      RPP: 6      CPN (US): 4
Length of term	5 years
Elections
Voting system	Parallel voting: 56 seats – FPtP 37 seats – PR
First election	2017
First election	2022
Last election	20 November 2022
Next election	2027
Meeting place
District Coordination Committee Office, Biratnagar, Morang District
Website
assembly.p1.gov.np
Constitution
Constitution of Nepal

The Koshi Provincial Assembly also known as the Koshi Pradesh Sabha, (Nepali: कोशी प्रदेश सभा) is the unicameral legislature of Koshi Province, one of the seven provinces in Nepal. The assembly is seated at the provincial capital at Biratnagar in Morang District at the District Coordination Committee Office. The assembly has 93 members of whom 56 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 37 are elected through proportional representation. The term of the assembly is 5 years unless dissolved earlier.

The Provincial Assembly of Province No. 1 (now Koshi Province) is formed under Article 175 of the Constitution of Nepal 2015 which guarantees a provincial legislative for each province in the country. The first provincial elections were conducted for all seven provinces in Nepal and the elections in Province No. 1 was conducted for 93 seats to the assembly. The election resulted in a victory for the CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) and CPN (Maoist Centre) alliance which later went on to form a coalition government under Sher Dhan Rai from CPN (UML).^[1] The first meeting of the provincial assembly was held on 5 February 2018. Pradeep Kumar Bhandari from CPN (UML) was elected as the first speaker of the provincial assembly,^[2] and Saraswoti Pokharel from Maoist Centre as the first deputy speaker of the provincial assembly.^[3]

Article 195 of the Constitution of Nepal provides provincial assemblies the power to form special committees in order to manage working procedures.

• Koshi Province