November 20: Voting for the general election has started across the country since early morning today (November 20). According to the Election Commission, voting will be held in a single phase from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm in all the 77 districts of the country. There are a total of 17,988,570 individuals who are eligible to vote in the election. 

Likewise, 22,227 polling stations in 10,892 polling centres have been established for the election, the state-owned national news agency RSS reported. Arrangements have been made to give priority to senior citizens, people with disabilities and the pregnant for the voting.        
According to RSS, voters have already reached the polling centres since early morning. The number of women voters is seen significantly high in the polling centres, RSS added.    
“Voters will be voting by putting swastika stamp on four separate ballot papers for the first-past-the-post and proportional representation system of the elections.”  

This is the second election to the House of Representatives and the provincial assemblies after the country adopted the federal form of governance.    
Altogether 246,960 employees and security personnel have been deployed for management of the election.       
According to RSS, a total of 2,412 candidates are contesting in the first past the post system of the election to the House of Representatives. Similarly, 2,199 candidates are enlisted for the proportional election system.

For the provincial assembly, 3,224 are in the fray for the first-past-the-post election system, while 3,708 names are listed in the final closed list for the proportional election system.    
 A total of 39.9 million ballot papers have been printed for the first-past-the-post system of the House of Representatives and provincial assembly and 40.6 million ballot papers for the proportional election system, RSS reported.    

Meanwhile, 7,219 persons from 44 national and 12 from two international organizations are observing the elections to help enhance the credibility of the election. The observer will supervise the elections in 165 constituencies of the House of Representatives and 330 constituencies of the Provincial Assembly.    
The Election Commission is planning to complete the counting of FPTP votes within three days.