Kathmandu. Voter turnout has reached 60 percent in Chitwan for the House of Representatives elections. Out of the three constituencies in Chitwan, only 60 percent cast their votes from 7 AM to 5 PM on Thursday.According to Election Officer Bhimsen Karki of the District Election Office, Chitwan, the preliminary turnout is 60 percent. The full report is yet to arrive. The district has 442,082 registered voters. According to the Election Commission's data, this includes 224,766 female voters, 217,314 male voters, and 2 other voters. There are 3,185 temporary voters, including 162 inmates in prisons. They cast their votes only for the...
Kathmandu. The Election Commission on Thursday declared that the voting process for the House of Representatives Member Election 2082 was completed peacefully and enthusiastically across the country. Citizens participated with great enthusiasm to exercise their right to vote during the polling process, which ran from 7 AM to 5 PM. Commission Spokesperson Narayan Prasad Bhattarai informed that immediately after the voting concluded, the process of securely collecting ballot boxes and preparing for vote counting has begun.Nepal Army helicopters have been deployed to transport ballot boxes from remote areas in 15 geographically challenging districts. According to the Commission's plan, the target...
Biratnagar. Preparations for counting the votes cast today for all five constituencies in Jhapa have begun. The process of transporting ballot boxes to the offices of all constituencies is ongoing. According to the Office of the Election Officer, Jhapa, the counting for Jhapa Constituency No. 1 will take place at the Mechinagar Municipality office. The counting for Jhapa Constituency No. 2 will be at the Arjundhara Municipality office, and the counting for Jhapa Constituency No. 3 is confirmed to be at the District Coordination Committee building. Similarly, the counting for Jhapa Constituency No. 4 will be completed at the Kankai Municipality office,...
Kathmandu. Voting was disrupted for nearly five hours at the Golmeshwor Secondary School polling station in Tamakoshi Rural Municipality-4, Dolakha, due to a dispute between election staff and political party cadres.Police fired two rounds in the air to bring the situation under control. Eight people were arrested and later released. Despite the day-long disruption, voting was completed at that polling center, SSP Somendra Singh Rathore, who was deployed to oversee the election in Dolakha, told Ratopati.SSP Rathore stated that 44 out of the 56 missing ballot books were recovered. Nine ballot papers remain unaccounted for, and an agreement was reached...