Ballot papers under FPTP election system for two states printed
Ballot papers under this system for the HoR election have been completed by 38 percent.
KATHMANDU: Ballot papers under the First-Past-the-Post (FPTP) election system for the upcoming House of Representatives (HoR) and State Assembly have been almost printed for Karnali and Sudurpaschim States so far.
HoR and State Assembly elections are scheduled for Nov 20 this year.
Ballot papers under this system for the HoR election have been completed by 38 percent while 80 percent for State Assembly till now, according to Shaligram Sharma Poudel, Spokesperson at the Election Commission of Nepal.
This time, Spokesperson Poudel, shared that the ballot paper under the FPTP system only contains the election system of the candidates whose names were published in the final name list following the registration of the nomination of the candidates.
The EC is printing around 2,500,000 ballot papers in the Janak Education Materials Centre Limited at Bhaktapur on a daily basis at present.
So far, a total of 8,999,000 ballot papers have been printed under the FPTP system. Of them 4,715,000 ballot papers are for the HoR election and the remaining 4,348,000 papers for the State Assembly.
The EC has already commenced printing of ballot papers for the HoR and State Assembly elections under the Proportional Representation system.
