{"id":425943,"date":"2026-03-05T12:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=425943"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:20:24","slug":"election-commission-expects-over-65-voter-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/03\/05\/425943.html","title":{"rendered":"Election Commission expects over 65% voter turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu: <\/strong>Acting Chief Election Commissioner Ram Prasad Bhandari has said voting is proceeding peacefully and enthusiastically across all 77 districts of Nepal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/lection-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-425945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/lection-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/lection-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/lection-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/lection-340x191.jpg 340w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/lection-390x220.jpg 390w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/lection.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bhandari urged voters, political parties, and candidates to maintain a peaceful and cooperative atmosphere. Counting will begin immediately after ballot collection, and the commission aims to release direct results within 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Based on voter enthusiasm, particularly among the youth, turnout is estimated to exceed 65 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: Acting Chief Election Commissioner Ram Prasad Bhandari has said voting is proceeding peacefully and enthusiastically across all 77 districts of Nepal. Bhandari urged voters, political parties, and candidates to maintain a peaceful and cooperative atmosphere. Counting will begin immediately after ballot collection, and the commission aims to release direct results within 24 hours. Based &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":425945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1120,3,4,76,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-425943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-election-2026","category-english","category-en-news","category-society","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425943"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425946,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425943\/revisions\/425946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425943"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=425943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}