Chairperson of the Nepal Workers and Peasants' Party (NWPP), Narayan Man Bijukchhe, cast his vote today at the Vidyarthi Niketan Secondary School polling center in Bhaktapur Municipality-5, Bhaktapur.
Rabindra Shahi (Guddu), the ward chair, got assaulted near the Shankar Basic School polling center located in Godawari Municipality–10 under Kailali Constituency-4 in Kailali District.
Chief Election Officer Kishor Ghimire said that 26 per cent of votes had been cast at 562 polling centers across 298 polling stations in the district, including 296 permanent and 2 temporary polling stations.
Thapa is a candidate for the House of Representatives from Sarlahi Constituency-4. As a registered voter of Kathmandu–4, he cast his vote there and then traveled to Sarlahi by helicopter on Thursday afternoon.
Voting under the House of Representatives (HoR) Election -2026 has been underway since 7:00 am this morning. As of 12:00 noon, the voter turnout was around 18 percent, the Election Commission said.
Voting has resumed after a dispute at the Primary School polling center in Jabdi village, Balara Municipality–4, Sarlahi Constituency-4, was resolved.
Chairperson of the CPN (UML) KP Sharma Oli has cast the vote. He voted at the Mahendra Shanti School, Balkot, at 11:30 AM today.
Former President Dr Ram Baran Yadav has said that the House of Representatives (HoR) election-2026 will deliver the people’s mandate in favour of forces capable of protecting the Constitution.
“19.75 percent of the votes have been cast by 11 AM,” he said, adding, “Voting is continuing peacefully everywhere.”
Election commissioners from Russia, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, along with officials from the Election Commission, visited polling centers to observe the voting process, management, and security arrangements.
According to the District Election Office, Ilam, 27 per cent of the votes, that is 62,588, have been cast in Ilam so far.
A 104-year-old woman has voted at the polling centre of Dhulabari Secondary School, located in Mechinagar Municipality-10, under the House of Representatives member election.
According to the Election Commission, a total of 1,823,824 votes had been cast nationwide by 11:00 AM, which is about 10 percent of the total votes.
One-hundred- and seven-year-old Ganesh Bahadur Rawat today voted under the House of Representatives (HoR) from Shuklagandaki municipality-3 in Tanahu.
Voting has not started at Janata Basic School in Jilla, Babai Rural Municipality–1, and Deuti Secondary School in Tallo Malaikhola-7 polling centre.