Presumptive Tibetan Parliamentary Electoral Results from Australiasia and South East Asia

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 A week ago, Tibetan diasporas in exile concluded primary election for the top political leadership, the headquarter of which is based in Dharamsala, four kilometres away from the residence of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama known in Tibetan veneration as “Shukgyar”.

The primary election had seven aspirants for the Sikyong or Presidency nomination and nearly two hundred aspirants seeking nomination for the parliament seats of 45 that is structured on multiple electoral basis covering Asia, North America, Europe and Australiasia. 

The electorate of Australiasia and South East Asia has one seat for the Tibetan Parliament as per the Tibetan Charter. The first election was held in 2015-2016 where the electorate of just over 1000 voters sent Dhongdue Kyizom as the first ever parliamentarian from the region.

In this election, the electorate of just one seat for the 45 parliament seats had five aspirants running for the nomination. The partial electoral outcome from Australia-New Zealand and Taiwan indicated Thupten Dhondup from Melbourne leading followed by Nigan from Sydney and closely competed at just 1 votes difference by Tenzin Phuntsok Doring from Brisbane. Tenzin Lobsang Khangsar and Shel Gedun trails at fourth and fifth position respectively. The public are yet to learn from the official results from Russia and Japan. 

The Tibetan Electoral Rules permits twice the strength of the seat in of each electorate in the parliament for the run-off or final election, which rules that only top two can compete for final election unless two aspirants tied at second place which is a rarest of rare case. The EC has announced pre-emptively that if there are top two, only those two will go for final round whereas if there are two tied at second place, three aspirants will go for final round so far as Sikyong candidate nomination is concerned and its likely to follow suit with parliamentary nomination as well though there hasn’t been any announcement of such.

Candidates who led in their respective local residential regions include, Tenzin Losbang Khangsar who led in both Victoria and Japan, Tenzin Phuntsok Doring who led Queensland with huge margin to the runner up, Nigan slightly led in Russia (and Inner Mongolia), Thupten Dhondup led in Taiwan. So far only two sub-regions’ official electoral results landed in public space while voters and aspirants await official results from Russia and Japan.







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