Nepal's former Maoist rebel leader, Prachanda, has become the first prime minister to be elected since the abolition of the monarchy in May.
It opens the way for the formation of a new government, capping a peace process that ended a civil war.
Maoists won a surprise victory in April elections and two other key parties supported Prachanda in the vote. He won 464 out of the 577 ballots cast in a special Constituent Assembly vote.
It is only two years since he emerged from more than 20 years underground as a militant communist leader.
What the Maoists called their "people's war" left 13,000 people dead, many more displaced and much of the country's infrastructure destroyed.
