Voting underway across Nepal in snap parliamentary elections
Summary
Voting is underway across all 77 districts in Nepal for the House of Representatives elections, following the fall of the KP Sharma Oli-led government. Over 18.9 million voters are casting ballots to elect 275 members.
Key Points
- Voting is taking place across all 77 districts of Nepal from 7am to 5pm in a single phase.
- The elections follow the dissolution of the lower house after the September Gen Z movement led to the fall of KP Sharma Oli's coalition government.
- A total of 18,903,689 voters are eligible to elect 275 members of the House of Representatives, with 52 percent aged between 18 and 40.
- 6,541 candidates are contesting the election across first-past-the-post and proportional representation seats, with 341,113 security personnel deployed for the polls.
