The election to pick 19 members of the National Assembly going vacant from coming March 4 is taking place today. As many as 51 candidates are vying for 19 seats in the Upper House.
As per the law, the election has to be held 35 days before the end of the tenure of the members. The election is scheduled to take place from 9 am to 3 pm in the designated polling stations of the provinces.
The province assembly members, rural municipality chairs and vice chairs, municipality mayors and deputy mayors will cast their vote in the election.
There will be an electoral college comprising members of the Province Assembly and chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of the rural municipality and mayors and deputy mayors of the municipality.
The weightage of a vote from Province Assembly members is 53 while that of from chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of the rural municipalities and mayors and deputy mayors of municipalities is 19. With this, the total vote weightage will be 57,559.
A total of 1,958 voters, including 549 provincial assembly members and chiefs and deputy chiefs of local levels, will cast their votes in the election.
All necessary preparations have been completed, the election commission said.
