{"id":425922,"date":"2026-03-05T08:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=425922"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:10:18","slug":"voting-begins-nationwide-for-house-of-representatives-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/03\/05\/425922.html","title":{"rendered":"Voting Begins Nationwide for House of Representatives Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kathmandu, March 5<\/strong> \u2013 Voting for the House of Representatives (HoR) elections has begun across the country today, with polling stations opening at 7:00 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officiating Chief Election Commissioner Ram Prasad Bhandari confirmed that the voting process started as scheduled and is being conducted from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in a single phase throughout the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polling is taking place in all 77 districts of Nepal, with voters participating to elect members of the federal parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Election Commission Nepal, a total of 65 political parties are contesting the election using 61 electoral symbols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system, 3,406 candidates are in the race, including 3,017 men, 388 women, and one candidate from the other category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, under the proportional representation (PR) system, 3,135 candidates are contesting the election, comprising 1,363 male and 1,772 female candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, March 5 \u2013 Voting for the House of Representatives (HoR) elections has begun across the country today, with polling stations opening at 7:00 a.m. Officiating Chief Election Commissioner Ram Prasad Bhandari confirmed that the voting process started as scheduled and is being conducted from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in a single phase throughout &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":421772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,78,1120,3,4],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-425922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-election-update","category-election-2026","category-english","category-en-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425923,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425922\/revisions\/425923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425922"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=425922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}