Local level elections in Province No. 2 enter the counting phase
The Election Commission Nepal (ECN) successfully conducted polling for the third and final phase of local level elections in Nepal on 18 September 2017. ECN declared that turnout in this phase was 77 percent of registered voters, the highest among all seven provinces, even though the province was badly affected by the recent rain and […]
More women on the political frontlines
Thanks to constitutional and legal provisions that introduced compulsory quotas for women in different posts in local governments, as well as intensive campaigns for women’s engagement in politics carried out by the Election Commission Nepal with the support of UNDP’s Election Support Project, a record number of women have won seats in the first two […]