In the last national election, how many days did it take for the EMB to announce certified results?

Carter Center FinalReport 2013 Nepal CA Election

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Election Results

Counting offirst-past-the-post ballots concluded on Nov. 25, and winning candidates wereissued certificates on the spot. The Nepali Congress emerged as the biggestwinner in the first-past- the-post race, winning 105 of 240 seats, closelyfollowed by CPN–UML and UCPN–Maoist with 91 and 26 seats, respectively.

Counting for theproportional representation system was finalized on Nov. 28. On Dec. 3, the ECNnotified the 30 parties that won seats under this system and asked them tosubmit the names of those candidates to be selected from their closed lists.The ECN extended this deadline three times — first to Dec. 18, then Dec. 25,and finally to Dec. 30 — in response to the requests of political parties togive them more time for internal deliberations and for negotiations with  UCPN–Maoist to convince them to take part inthe process. The gridlock was resolved on Dec. 24 with the signing of afour-point agreement among eight political parties in which the UCPN–Maoist andvarious Madhes-based parties committed to take part in the constituent assemblyprocess.All parties except MPRF–Nepal and FSP– Nepal submitted the selectednames from the closed list by the end of the extended deadline on Dec. 30. Thecommission accepted the submis- sions of these two parties shortly thereafter.The ECN asked the Rashtriya Janamukti party, which had won two seats, to amendits selection in order to meet the diversity criteria. On Jan. 2, 2014, the ECNsubmitted the official results to the president, and they were published subsequentlyin the Nepal Gazette. Certificates for members of the constit- uent assemblyelected through the proportional representation system were given by the ECN tothe respective parties to distribute.

Source:https://www.cartercenter.org/resources/pdfs/news/peace_publications/election_reports/nepal-2013-final.pdf