History of Independent candidate in legislative election
A bird eye view on the history of Independent candidature
In recent days, the hype of independent candidate is at its peak. The victory of independent candidate at recently completed local level election in some of the major cities received huge coverage in social spheres as well as in media. It has made the issue of focus both in news and views together with encouraging individual citizen to nominate their candidature for shortly coming federal and provincial election.
With such phenomenon centered at independent candidate, it is worthwhile to review the history of independent candidate on parliamentary election. Let’s have a look:
Year (B.S.) | Total Candidates | Independent Candidates | Elected independent candidates |
2015 | 786 | 268 | 4 |
2048 | 1345 | 219 | 3 |
2051 | 1442 | 385 | 7 |
2056 | 2238 | 633 | 0 |
CA 2064 | 3946 | 816 | 2 |
CA-2 2070 | 6125 | 1114 | 2 |
2074 | 1944 | 492 | 1 |