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The ballot boxes from the concerned polling stations are being supplied to the Offices of the Returning Officers in Jhapa district. 

Following the conclusion of voting at 5 pm today, the Election Commission has begun transporting ballot boxes to counting centers

District Election Officer of Jhapa Tulsi Nepal said that vote counting will begin as per the decision of the all-party meeting that will take place after the collection of the entire ballot boxes.

Nepal added that vote counting will begin from midnight today.

As per the preliminary report, the district recorded nearly 65 percent voter turnout. 

According to the District Election Office, the voting concluded in all five constituencies in the district in a peaceful manner. 

Vote counting for the elections to the House of Representatives (HoR) will be conducted at the offices of election officers in respective constituencies across the country. 

The counting begins after the ballot boxes are collected at the offices of election officers.

The Election Commission has informed that it had put every effort in place to announce the result within 24 hours of the vote count. 

The count of votes for proportional election begins after announcing the result of the first-past-the-post category.

The Election Commission of Nepal has said that initial voter turnout in the parliamentary elections held on Thursday was around 60 percent. 

Officials said that this is an early estimate and final figures will be come later.

Acting Chief Commissioner Ram Prasad Bhandari said the commission is still collecting data from across the country.

A total of 18. 9 million voters were registered for the elections.

Among them were 9.66 million were male voters, 9.24 million female voters, and 200 voters listed as others.

With the peaceful conduction of elections to the House of Representatives (HoR), the vote counting in all 10 constituencies of Kathmandu is beginning after a while.

Chief Returning Officer in Kathmandu Churaman Khadka said that all ballot boxes would be collected at the respective Election Officers' offices in each constituency within the next two hours. Vote counting is expected to begin after it.

Preliminary estimates indicate that the voter turnout in Kathmandu district ranged between 60 to 65 percent. 

Voting, which started at 7 am and ended at 5 pm, was conducted peacefully across all constituencies, with an estimated voter turnout around 60 to 65 per cent, informed Chief Election Officer Khadka.

He, however, added that it would take some more time to ascertain the exact figures of the total votes cast.