Overview
- Nationwide single-phase voting runs from 7:00 to 17:00 local time across roughly 23,000 booths, with authorities reporting a largely peaceful process so far.
- Voters are choosing a 275-seat House through 165 first-past-the-post races and 110 proportional seats contested by about 6,541 candidates from around 65 parties.
- More than 300,000 security personnel, including military units and temporary election police, are deployed to secure over 10,900 polling centres.
- Counting begins once ballot boxes reach centres, with FPTP tallies expected within about 24 hours of arrival and PR seat allocations two to three days later due to terrain and verification steps.
- Analysts anticipate a fragmented mandate, as established parties like CPN-UML and Nepali Congress face a strong Rastriya Swatantra Party challenge, including a marquee race between KP Sharma Oli and Balen Shah in Jhapa-5.