{"id":425957,"date":"2026-03-05T13:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=425957"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:40:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:55:30","slug":"around-18-percent-voter-turnout-recorded-by-noon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/03\/05\/425957.html","title":{"rendered":"Around 18 percent voter turnout recorded by noon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu, March 5: Around 18 per cent<\/strong> voter turnout was recorded by noon in the 2026 Nepal House of Representatives election, according to the Election Commission Nepal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voting began at 7 a.m. on Thursday and is continuing at polling centres across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Election Commission spokesperson Narayan Prasad Bhattarai said the commission\u2019s system had recorded 3,163,736 votes cast nationwide by 12 noon, which is about 18 per cent of the total electorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said voting was continuing smoothly and enthusiastically at most polling centres across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The commission has been monitoring the polling process through its central system and field officials, the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, March 5: Around 18 per cent voter turnout was recorded by noon in the 2026 Nepal House of Representatives election, according to the Election Commission Nepal. Voting began at 7 a.m. on Thursday and is continuing at polling centres across the country. Election Commission spokesperson Narayan Prasad Bhattarai said the commission\u2019s system had recorded &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":423483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,78,1120,3,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-425957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administration","category-election-update","category-election-2026","category-english","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425957"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425958,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425957\/revisions\/425958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425957"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=425957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}