Table 9.2 Governments of Nepal, 1990–2005

	PM	Parties	Length	Dates
1	KP Bhattarai	Congress + ULF interim	13 months	19/04/90–25/05/91
First general election (1991) Congress 110 seats (37.8% votes), UML 69 (28%)
2	GP Koirala	Congress majority	42 months	26/05/91–28/11/94
Second general election (1994) Congress 83 seats (33.4%), UML 88 (30.9%)
3	MM Adhikari	UML minority	9 months	29/11/94–10/09/95
4	SB Deuba	Congress–NDP–NSP coalition	18 months	11/09/95–11/03/97
5	LB Chand	RPP–UML coalition	7 months	12/03/97–05/10/97
6	SB Thapa	RPP–Congress–NSP coalition	6 months	06/10/97–25/03/98
7	GP Koirala	Congress minority	5 months	26/03/98–25/08/98
8	GP Koirala	Congress–ML coalition	4 months	26/08/98–22/12/98
9	GP Koirala	Congress–UML–NSP coalition	5 months	23/12/98–26/05/99
Third general election (1999) Congress 112 seats (36.1%), UML 70 (30.7%)
10	KP Bhattarai	Congress	9 months	27/05/99–09/03/00
11	GP Koirala	Congress	16 months	10/03/00–22/07/01
12	SB Deuba	Congress, later Congress (D)	14 months	23/07/01–04/10/02
13	LB Chand	Non-party	8 months	11/10/02–31/05/03
14	SB Thapa	Non-party (in practice RPP)	11 months	04/06/03–07/05/04
15	SB Deuba	Cong (D) + NSP(Mandal) + UML + RPP	8 months	01/06/04–01/02/05