{"id":41261,"date":"2026-01-31T16:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=41261"},"modified":"2026-01-31T16:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:52:40","slug":"sample-ballot-papers-unveiled-kathmandu-to-have-the-largest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/sample-ballot-papers-unveiled-kathmandu-to-have-the-largest\/","title":{"rendered":"Sample ballot papers unveiled; Kathmandu to have the largest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Jan 31: The Election Commission (EC) has made public sample ballot papers for various districts and electoral constituencies in preparation for the March 5 election to the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The EC released the sample ballot papers covering all seven provinces, aiming to support voter education ahead of the election.<\/p>\n<p>Two types of ballot papers have been designed-one for the districts with a single electoral constituency and another for those with multiple constituencies, said Narayan Prasad Bhattarai, Spokesperson at the EC.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson Bhattarai further mentioned that the size of the ballot paper depends on the number of candidates contesting in each constituency.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the constituencies with a larger number of candidates will have comparatively bigger ballot papers, while those with fewer candidates will have smaller ones.<\/p>\n<p>As Kathmandu district has the highest number of constituencies\u2014ten in total\u2014it will feature the largest ballot paper in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, districts with only one constituency, including Salyan, Dolpa, Mugu, Jumla, Kalikot, Humla, Jajarkot, Rukum (Paschim), Bajura, Bajhang, Doti, Darchula, Baitadi and Dadeldhura, will use smaller-sized ballot papers.<\/p>\n<p>The EC has also unveiled samples of the actual ballot papers to be used in these districts.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the Commission, a constitutional body responsible for conducting and overseeing elections, has already published ballot papers for the election to be held under the proportional representation category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Jan 31: The Election Commission (EC) has made public sample ballot papers for various districts and electoral constituencies in preparation for the March 5 election to the House of Representatives. The EC released the sample ballot papers covering all seven provinces, aiming to support voter education ahead of the election. Two types of ballot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41264,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41261\/revisions\/41264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}