Total 120 political parties have applied at the Election Commission of Nepal for their participation in the March 5 election to the House of Representatives. The parties could register themselves from November 17 to 30.

 

EC Spokesperson Narayan Prasad Bhattarai informed that total 120 political parties applied each with a unique election symbol. After conducting study on the applications, EC will provide final approval by December 6. This year, the parties intending to contest elections are formed by Gen Z leaders, lawyers, businessmen, former lawmakers from dissolved parliament, social activists, academicians and others.

 

The Election Commission (EC) has added 168 new polling stations ahead of the upcoming national elections, raising the total to 10,967 after removing 93 outdated or impractical sites. More than 835,000 new voters have been added to the roll, including 344,914 through biometric enrollment and 492,180 via the national ID system. Nepal now has 18,168,023 registered voters. The commission allots one polling centre for every 1,000 new voters, and the latest expansion broadly aligns with the standard practice.

 

In November 2022, 86 political parties contested for elections. To elect the 275 members of the House of Representatives in Nepal, there are two ballots in the election; one to elect 165 members from single-member constituencies via First-Past-The-Post, and the other to elect the remaining 110 members from a single nationwide constituency by party-list proportional representation.