title: 1999 Nepalese general election
text: General elections were held in Nepal on 3 and 17 May 1999. The Nepali Congress emerged as the largest party, gaining 28 seats, while the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN–UML) lost 17.
  
  Background
  The previous elections o the Pratinidhi Sabha in 1994 had seen the CPN–UML emerge victorious and the first-ever popularly elected communist government formed. Yet by 1999, infighting, such as the departure of the Bam Dev Gautam and C.P. Mainali led splinter group, had got in the way of policy decisions and put certain people off voting for the party.
  
  Results
  
  Distribution of seats
  
  Aftermath
  Following the elections, the various parties found it difficult to cooperate and finalise a policy of the Maoist rebels, culminating in the 2002 dissolution of the parliament by King Gyanendra.
  
  Following the 2006 Loktantra Andolan, in which all of the parties successful in 1999, except the royalist Rashtriya Prajatantra Party participated in the Seven Party Alliance, the House was reinstated in 2006.
  
  See also
  List of MPs elected in the 1999 Nepalese general election
  Winners and runner-ups in the legislative elections of Nepal 1994 and 1999
  
  References 
  
  General elections in Nepal
  Nepal
  1999 elections in Nepal
  History of Nepal (1951–2008)
  May 1999 events in Asia
  Politics of the Nepalese Civil War