November 26: The country is witnessing elections for the federal parliament and provincial assemblies in 32 districts of the mountains and hills on Sunday, November 26. This is the first time that the country is heading to elections of the three-tier government as envisioned by the new constitution of Nepal. With the local level elections already held few months ago, the country is now having the parliamentary and provincial assembly elections in two phases on November 26 and December 7.

The first phase of elections on Sunday will elect 37 members of the federal parliament and 74 members of the provincial assemblies. A total of 702 people are contesting for the combined 111 seats of federal parliament and provincial assemblies.

The Election Commission has set up 2,919 polling centers and 4,465 polling stations for the first phase of elections.

A total of 3.191 million voters are eligible to cast their votes in the first phase of elections. There are 15.427 million registered voters in the country.

A total of 275 members of federal parliament and 550 members of provincial assemblies in all seven provinces after the second phase of elections.