KATHMANDU, Feb 19: The 8th Election Day is being observed today with the theme "Success of Elections, Outreach of Electoral Education".

BIRATNAGAR, August 21: Chief Minister of Koshi Province, Uddhav Thapa, has received the vote of confidence on Monday.

BIRATNAGAR, July 7: Baburam Gautam, the speaker of Koshi Province, has said that he will resign if necessary.

Vote count in Chitwan 2 begins

April 24, 2023 14:53 pm

CHITWAN, April 24: Vote count in Chitwan constituency 2 began at 2 PM today.

KATHMANDU, March 17: The counting of votes cast in the election to the Vice President has begun. The counting of votes has begun in two places in the Lhotse chamber of the parliament building in New Baneshwar.

CHITWAN, Nov 23: Ravi Lamichhane, chairman of the Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSP), has more than doubled the margin of victory in region number 2 of Chitwan.

CHITWAN, Nov 22: CPN-UML's Krishna Bhakta Pokharel has taken the lead in the first-past-the-post election in Chitwan-2. By the time 8,284 votes were counted, Krishna Bhakta Pokharel garnered 3,254 votes.

Mourners cast their votes in IIam

November 20, 2022 16:56 pm

IIam, Nov 20: Mourners in Ilam have also cast their votes in the ongoing elections to the House of Representatives and the Provincial Assembly. The mourners voted in Sandakpur Rural Municipality and Ilam Municipality.

KATHMANDU, Nov 20: Chairman of CPN (Unified Socialist) and Former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has voted from Ram Janaki Kanya Basic School polling station in Rautahat.

KALIKOT, Nov 20: A total of 20 prisoners in Kalikot prison have voted from the temporary polling station set up at Kalikot Jail.

KATHMANDU, Nov 20: Prime Minister and Nepali Congress (NC) President Sher Bahadur Deuba has cast his vote in Dadeldhura for the House of Representatives and Provincial Assembly elections.

KATHMANDU, Nov 20: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has cast his vote from the Seti Devi Panchakanya Secondary School polling booth in Chautara Sangachok Gadhi Municipality of Sindhupalchok.

KATHMANDU, Nov 20: As the voting for the election to the members of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies has started across the country, people as well as leaders of various political parties have started casting their votes from their respective polling stations.

NC General Secretary Thapa casts his vote

November 20, 2022 09:45 am

KATHMANDU, Nov 20: Nepali Congress (NC) General Secretary Gagan Kumar Thapa has cast his vote. Thapa voted today from Maitidevi Temple polling station located in Kathmandu Metropolitan City-30.

ILLAM, Nov 20: CPN-UML Vice Chairman and Constituent Assembly Chairman Subash Chandra Nembang has said that the country is moving forward in the right direction. He said that he believed that the House of Representatives and Province Assembly elections held for the second time after the promulgation of the new constitution would take the country to a right direction.

KATHMANDU, Nov 20: Former Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara has cast his first vote at the polling station at Tara Mabi Bamruk in Rolpa Municipality.

CHITWAN, Nov 20: Chairperson of CPN (Maoist Center) and former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has voted from Chitwan district.

KATHMANDU, Nov 20: People living with disabilities and senior citizens will be put on high priority during voting for the elections to the House of Representatives and the Province Assembly on Sunday, according to the Election Commission.

KATHMANDU, Nov 20: Prime Minister and Nepali Congress(NC) President Sher Bahadur Deuba is casting vote at a voting center of Asigram Secondary School of Ruwakhola from Ganyapdhura Rural Municipality-1 of his home district, Dadeldhura. It is said PM Deuba, who is in Dadeldhura at present, is scheduled to cast vote at 9:00 am Sunday.

KATHMANDU, Nov 20: Ravi Lamichhane, Chairman of National Independent Party, has cast his vote for the election to the members of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies.

Fool Us Once, Fool Us Twice…

October 20, 2022 08:00 am

We have a whole month to think wisely about who to give our valuable vote on November 20. I hope none of you will vote for the same people who have been responsible for the mess the country finds itself in today. I also hope you won’t be confused anymore with their hollow speeches and pompous talk and will vote for the change you really want to see.

KATHMANDU, Oct 19: The five-party ruling coalition has appealed to al voters to realize the essence of the coalition so as to meet national aspirations of good governance and prosperity through democracy, constitution and rule of law and emerge the coalition partners victorious in upcoming elections.

Vote for Best Candidate

September 15, 2022 14:00 pm

In my mind, indeed, the upcoming election will be quite a tough job when it comes to demanding a vote for a particular party or an independent candidate. These days, each political candidate has promised to verbally make into his/her area more prosperous along with developmental activities. After all, winning matters a lot, no matter which party one may belong to. Similarly, an independent candidate does, too.

The next elections are scheduled for November 20. We all should take this as a golden opportunity and cast our ballots such that we don’t have to repent for the next five years. This is an opportunity which should not be missed. Let’s throw the snollygosters out of political offices and other positions of power. Let’s stop them this time.

KATHMANDU, May 18: Amid growing demand from people to endorse the ‘right to reject vote’ in elections, a number of votes cast in the recently held local elections have been found written ‘No Vote’ by voters.

KATHMANDU, May 13: A mayoral candidate for Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC), Balen Shah has cast his vote at Annapurna School in Gairigaun, Sinamangal.

JHAPA, May 13: Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) Chairman Rajendra Lingden has cast his vote in the local polls. He cast his vote at a polling booth of the office of Haldibari Rural Municipality-1 of Jhapa.

TANAHUN, May 13: Nepali Congress leader Ram Chandra Poudel has cast his vote on Friday.

SINDHUPALCHOWK, May 13: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has cast his vote in the local level election. He cast his vote at the local Setidevi Panchakanya Higher Secondary School polling center in Chautara Sangachokgadhi Municipality-5 on Friday morning.

KATHMANDU, April 7: The Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) is all set to elect new leadership in its all chapters, province committees and the central committee. FNJ has adopted the first-ever direct voting system to elect its central committee leadership. Voting is underway in all chapters across the country.

Bollywood actor Taapsee Pannu on Saturday blasted a social media user who targeted her for casting vote in Delhi Assembly elections even after shifting to Mumbai for work.

ISTANBUL, June 24: Turkey’s opposition has dealt President Tayyip Erdogan a stinging blow by winning control of Istanbul in a re-run mayoral election, breaking his aura of invincibility and delivering a message from voters unhappy over his policies.

JAKARTA, May 23: The defeated candidate in Indonesia’s presidential election is expected to challenge the result in court Thursday as calm returned to the capital following a 24-hour spasm of apparently orchestrated violence.

LONDON, May 18: The British government’s Brexit Withdrawal Agreement Bill needs to include another public vote when it is presented to MPs again next month, the Labour Party’s Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer said on Saturday.

NEW DELHI, May 12: Voters in Delhi and elsewhere in India’s north lined up early on Sunday to cast their ballots in the second-to-last round of a seven-phase general election, with the opposition seeking a united stand to deny Prime Minister Narendra Modi a second term.

NEW DELHI, April 23: Voting began in the third and largest phase of India’s staggered general election on Tuesday, including in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat and Kerala, where opposition Congress party chief Rahul Gandhi is contesting.

LONDON, April 2: British lawmakers on Monday voted to turn down all the four proposed Brexit options on the table, the second time since Friday that none of MPs' proposed Brexit options wins clear backing in the House of Commons.

On March 27, MPs were given the chance to vote on eight alternatives to May's negotiated deal with the EU and 'take back control' of the Brexit process. Underlining the deep divisions and current disarray in the House of Commons, they failed completely to grab any of the initiative which had been dangled in front of them by Speaker John Bercow in allowing the votes to take place.

As suggested in a Monmouth University Poll, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is leading the pack of declared Democratic candidates for the 2020 presidential election.

KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct 19 : Afghanistan is holding parliamentary elections on Saturday despite deep security concerns and ongoing fighting in as many as 20 out of the country’s 34 provinces.

SKOPJE, Sept 30: Macedonians were deciding Sunday on their country's future, voting in a referendum on whether to accept a landmark deal ending a decades-old dispute with neighboring Greece by changing their country's name to North Macedonia, paving the way to NATO membership.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama assailed President Donald Trump and Republicans on Friday, urging Democrats to deliver a check on the administration’s “abuses of power” and restore a sense of sanity to politics by voting in November’s elections.

PHNOM PEHN, July 29: With the main opposition silenced, Cambodians were voting in an election Sunday virtually certain to return to office Prime Minister Hun Sen and his party who have been in power for more than three decades.

ISLAMABAD, July 27: Cricket hero Imran Khan has swept to an emphatic victory in a disputed Pakistan election, official figures showed Friday, but without a majority he will need to enter a coalition to take power in the nuclear-armed country.

ISLAMABAD, July 26: Pakistan’s former cricket star Imran Khan and his party were maintaining a commanding lead Thursday amid slow and tedious counting of ballots from a historic election the previous day that was marred by allegations of fraud and militant violence.

KATHMANDU, July 12: As consensus appears elusive among the aspirants for the post of parliamentary party (PP) leader in the Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal (RJP-N), the party is set to elect its PP leader through election on Saturday.

ISTANBUL, June 24: Turks began voting on Sunday for a new president and parliament in elections that pose the biggest ballot box challenge to Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted AK Party since they swept to power more than a decade and a half ago.

Mariano Rajoy has been ousted as Spain’s prime minister after the country’s parliament voted that it had no confidence in his government.

DUBLIN, May 26: Abortion rights activists proclaimed victory for Irish women Saturday as referendum results indicated voters in largely Roman Catholic Ireland overwhelmingly backed repealing a 1983 constitutional ban on abortions.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 9: Malaysians flocked to vote in a fiercely contested election Wednesday that pits an opposition led by former authoritarian leader Mahathir Mohamad against the ruling coalition of Prime Minister Najib Razak, whose reputation has been battered by corruption allegations and an unpopular sales tax.