How to be updated for Election result in Nepal?

Different levels of election happened in Nepal in different phases. The percent of turnout in local election is found high among the registered voters. The huge turn out shows the excitement in people for the election in Nepal, as this is first election after the new constitution. The election in Nepal is till now in paper ballot. We don’t know when will Nepal adopt electronic voting for national level elections. Many online news portal here have started separate section for the local election update in Nepal. Election results updates are also coming from these portals. The official election commission website is also releasing press releases timely for the update and the information. Here are some of the methods to be updated electronically for the different elections in Nepal.

Official website of Election Commission of Nepal

Election commission has been providing various information regarding the local election to the people through their official website, www.election.gov.np. The website is also free for browsing from Nepal Telecom GSM mobile. There are information regarding voting techniques, voters information and all the timelines. Voters can even view the information of their voter registration number and the booth for the voting in their ward in Election commission website. This website is the official way of election update in Nepal.

ECN Mobile app

Election commission has launched a mobile application for the election related information to disseminate to the public. The app also includes voters information as available in their website and also the candidates name as well. It also provides the election vote count update from the app tab. The app is available in android and iOS platform.

Call center

If it requires to ask the Election commission about some election information, you can make a call to their call center at Kantipath. People can make a call to this ECN number Toll Free number: 1660-0144222, for free of cost. The call center is not only for asking queries during the elections and the election procedure. But it is also for the complain of any violation of code of conduct during the election. EC tells that they will act promptly for the complains and the queries.

Election News in Online news portal

Online news portal are very fast in providing election update to the people through their website. Some portal like Onlinekhabar has also started a separate section (election.onlinekhabar.com) for the election update in Nepal. Kantipur has also started separate portal for the election result and updates. You can go to Kantipur’s portal at election.ekantipur.com. Setopati has also started its election result update with separate portal at setopati.com. Ekantipur was ahead before in providing the latest election result. But they are in high competition to update it soon after the results and in between.

TV, FM radios.

Two decades ago, radios are the only means to update people about the election. People used to stick to the radios for the election vote count update that time. Now they have multitude of options including tens from FM radios, Television channels and more. Now it is very easy to listen FM radios and even TVs from your mobile, on the go. Nepal TV, Kantipur TV, AP1 TV, News 24 TV, Nepal TV, Avenues TV are the most popular ones in providing the latest reports and results. Among them, Kantipur, Ntv and APN 1 seems to be providing fast and correct information. Although the analog cable TV is already shut down in city areas, you can still watch those Nepali TV channels in the analog cable. As the telecom operators have already launched their TV streaming apps, you can also watch television channels using mobile apps in your phone. Either you can use, Ntc Wow time App or Ncell iflix.

Nepal Election result by SMS

For the parliamentary and state elections, you can send a message to 388484 to get the latest results. This is Collaboration of Sparrow SMS and Kantipur publications.

• To get the latest result of Nepal parliamentary election result by SMS, you need to send a message of the format “District name”<space>”Area number” to 38484 and you will a get message of the latest result. Like for example to know the latest result of Kathmandu Area no 1, you need to send a message with text “Kathmandu 1” to 38484
• Similarly, to get the latest result of state elections by SMS, you need to send a message of the format “District name”<space><Area number><space>”state number” to 38484. For example, you need to message Jhapa 1 A or B to 38484 for latest result of Jhapa 1 A or B.

You can even get the election result of the local level election from SMS. For that you need to send a message M<space>{Nagarpalika or Gaupalika name) to 38484 for getting the result for Mayor or Chairman. For the deputy chairman or deputy Mayor, you need to send a message U<space>{Nagarpalika or Gaupalika name) to 38484. This is collaborative effort of Kantipur Radio along with Sparrow SMS.

You can select any one of them. Now you don’t have to be glued to FM radios for the election update. The app and their website is very easy to search for the information. Even for the election result, you can use the same methods. There may be other unofficial apps and websites, which we have not included here.

If you know any other means, do mention below for the election update in Nepal.