The Provincial Assembly of Sudurpashchim Province is under Article 175 of the Constitution of Nepal 2015 which guarantees a provincial legislative for each province in the country.

The election resulted in a victory for the CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) and CPN (Maoist Centre) alliance which later went on to form a coalition government under Trilochan Bhatta from Maoist Centre.

The first meeting of the provincial assembly was held on 4 February 2018.

Arjun Bahadur Thapa from CPN (UML) was elected as the first speaker of the provincial assembly,[1] and Nirmala Badal Joshi from Maoist Centre as the first deputy speaker of the provincial assembly.

[2] Article 195 of the Constitution of Nepal provides provincial assemblies the power to form special committees in order to manage working procedures.